Rain Rain Go AWAY!

We have a rain storm every day here! Actually, I think there was ONE day that it did not rain at all. It is really creating some cabin fever for Ezekiel. We are having these massive thunder storms that you just don't want to leave the house in. The other day we had one of the largest rainstorms I've ever seen. There wasn't any lightening so I asked Ezekiel if he wanted to go out and play. "Right now?" he says. I said "yeah, right now". He says "Ma, it's raining out. No play in the rain." I asked him if he at least wanted to give it a try and that I'd let him go out naked in the rain. That was all it took. He was all gung-ho and ready to go!

Here he is catching the rain and hollering about it:


Here is the massive rainbow (the first one he has every seen) that the rain created:


Here he is playing with the sump-pump hose. He calls it his fire-man hose:





Here he is just being silly in the rain:








I LOVE this one with his little chub:


Running through the field with the rainbow in the background:


Taking a breather:

A Mish Mash of a Month's Past

I have so much catching up to do on Ezekiel's site! My goodness! When I get extra time, I really, really need the time lately to just relax and sleep. I am pooped out!! This is really a mish-mash of dates from the last 4-5 weeks.

These first photos are from our first trip this year to D.E.W. Animal Kingdom. We hadn't been with Ezekiel since he was about 6 months old, so it was really exciting for him. When we first got there, we thought that we would put him in the stroller to be able to see everything. Yah, right!! He told us "no stroller" and refused to ride in it. He wanted to get up close and possible with as many of the animals as he could. He got licked by a huge deer (which is one of his most favorite stories to tell), he was petrified of the goats, and he loved the fact that he *finally* got to pet a live kangaroo (or kangaroon as he calls them). Here he is with Daddy getting ready to feed some of the animals. This was the llama and sheep section. He was a little nervous about them, but a real trooper (with Daddy's encouragement)!







He loved, loved, loved the bears! They have a tube set up so you can buy "bear food" and put it down the tube for them to eat. One of the bears stands at the end of the tube waiting for food. Ezekiel LOVED that! Here he is standing on the stump feeding the bears:






Here's Marty and E. at the end of our trip. You can tell that they are both pretty tired!


Ezekiel did his best to stay awake for the rest of the night, but he crawled in Marty's lap and ended up crashing (while holding a chinese meat stick!! haha):


Ezekiel went over to Grammy's the other day and stole one of her necklaces that the kids made her. He loves that thing now!
I think he might think it is candy...






Watching t.v. and zoning out:




Ezekiel LOVES his bike! He calls it his "Bicycle Helmet". He has finally mastered the pedals so he can go "fast, fast!"





This one..... I'm not really sure.....


Marty and I take Ezekiel on "special dates" to get ice cream. He gets his ice cream cone, we park the car and then he gets to come sit with us in the front seat to eat it. He always tells us that this makes him feel "really, really big-boy". He especially likes to rearrange the rear-view mirror so that he can watch his every ice cream bite. He loves himself.

New Ultrasound picture

This picture is from our ultrasound today. Both babies look great. Baby B was REALLY active. The sonographer had a difficult time getting both of them in a good pic because one was behind my belly button.

No pictures today, just a funny story

I want to remember this, so I thought I would add it to Ezekiel's blog. He has this new little speech thing he does that is just super cute. He watches this show called Caillou, his favorite Pokemon is Pikachu, and he loves kangaroos. When he talks about them (all end in the 'oo' sound) he adds an "n". So it is Cailloun, Pikachoon, and kangaroon. It is so cute! And the best part is he has no idea he is doing it.

Today is my birthday. When we got up today I told him "today is Mommy's birthday". He thinks for a bit and says "well, where Daddy with presents and cake then?" He is very serious about how a birthday is supposed to be celebrated.

two :)

June already!

The other day, we had a blowout of one of our tires, so we got stuck at the Lewiston Mall for a few hours (the tiniest mall around...). There is a little kids play area that we took Ezekiel to to waste some time. He really enjoyed this yellow car. As a matter of fact, when other kids came to try to play too, he let them know that it was "his baby's"


He was a little nervous around the massive cat. He wouldn't climb in and sit in the seat, but I did finally get him to pose next to him.


Here he is coming out of the castle:


I busted him hiding behind the glass door today. You can tell by all of the little fingerprints that he does this often:


He is incredibly pleased to be busted:

Ice Cream Baby!

Ezekiel is a lover of ice cream. If I ask him what he wants to do for the day, he says "get ice cream". He always gets chocolate ice cream (soft or hard serve; he likes both) with rainbow sprinkles. He does a really awesome job and barely makes a mess at all!



It really makes him happiest.






Our neighbors bought water guns. I, personally, am very uncomfortable with the whole idea of letting my toddler play with guns. Even play ones. He isn't old enough to get the concept of fake vs. real yet. Well, he found the guns. And he somehow just knows how to use them and hold them. Here he is shooting the dogs. Look at the face he is making!




Can you tell this was directly after the chocolate ice cream?


Video of the water gun incident:
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