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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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Tonight

After creating much destruction, Ezekiel *finally* passes out on the chair. He is holding his new plastic butterfly garden decoration.

Spring has Sprung!

Spring is here! Ezekiel and I have been so caught up in playing outside and having picnics, I haven't taken the time to update!

He is talking all the time now. Non-stop. He is so funny. He counts to 14 and he knows all of his letters. It was hilarious how we found out that he knows his letters. We were sitting outside and he was playing with these foam letters. He brought me over an "R" and says "mama, R". I wasn't paying attention, so I say 'will you go get me the "L"?' He did....so we went through the alphabet, and the only letter that he messed up on was "M". He thought it was an "E".

He retells the stories that I tell him too. He loves when I tell him the Three Little Pigs story because I get really extreme with the Big Bad Wolf. The other day, he was sitting in bed telling himself the story. He says "Wolf let me in, let me in".... then he says in this high squeeky voice "NO WAY PIG, NO WAY!" It was really hilarious.

Ezekiel loves talking about "Angie's Baby". Everything is "Angie's Baby" with him. Here he is checking baby Kara out for the first time:


He just really wanted to help the nurse out.


Kara is absolutely beautiful. Here she is on the day she was born:


Here's Marty holding her, you can tell he is a proud Uncle:


The other day, Ezekiel went and got his baby Bumbo seat. He decided to try to cram his big self right in there:


He was pretty pleased when he managed:


Gray Animal Farm has officially opened for the season! We have been...once again, Ezekiel's favorites are the bears. He loved the porcupines too though. Grammy came with us and she thought it would be a great idea to pet the porcupine...until she saw his MASSIVE yellow teeth.


We went and caught frog eggs the other day. Ezekiel loved the idea of how they felt like jelly.


Once again, the sheep are a big hit this summer:




Including sheep kisses:




He has also discovered t-ball. He mostly likes to hit people and the dogs with the bat.




Here are a bunch of randoms from this week (I have to hurry because E. needs bed now :)






Doing his new "tough pose"


And... a video (all he is doing is sitting with Daddy watching t.v. but it is cutie)





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Tomorrow is Spring!

Ezekiel hasn't been at his best lately.  He is acting run down and just clingy; like he is coming down with something.  I've been letting him have some t.v. time to just zone out because he is such low energy, but today was so beautiful, I told him that we were going to go for a walk.  During the walk, there was a bird that kept making this hee-hee-hee noise over and over.  Ezekiel says to me "mama, bird laugh me??"  I told him that it did sound like the bird was laughing at us.  Ezekiel loved the idea of it so much, that he mimiced the sound ALL the way home (and we were at least a mile from home at that time). 

Here he is last night when Marty got home from work.  Last night, he did not want to leave mine and Marty's laps.




While unpacking some of his 3T clothes from Mandy, he discovered a Spiderman shirt.  We have tried VERY hard to not let him see Spiderman (seriously, we have been super-heroed out from the other boys).  Well, he saw this shirt and fell immediately in love.  He just keeps saying "Ohhh, Cool!!" and he won't take the shirt off. 

Here he is tonight (notice he is still wearing the shirt).  I think you can tell by his eyes that he is zoning out and that he feels run down


This video was two nights ago.  He was SO overtired he couldn't stop his giggling.

Ezekiel - my Pickle Boy

It feels like Ezekiel is growing into a little boy so quickly.  He doesn't do these huge milestones all the time like when he was learning to sit up or learning to crawl; now it is the little things that you have to look for.  For example, he just discovered that he has pockets.  He puts his little hands in his pockets and walks around all tough-like.  He will stop and look at you with his eyebrows raised as if to say "I know you are impressed".  I've tried to take a video of it, but he sees the camera and starts hamming it up immediately. 

He is pee-peeing all the time on the potty now.  He has to stand up like Daddy does though.  He actually has excellent aim (thank goodness) and then he dumps his potty out into the big toilet and cleans up after himself.  It is super funny.

Here is Ezekiel and Shamus (his cousin):


Flip the t.v. on and both of them are immediately sucked in:


Having a baby over exhausts Ezekiel.  I think he feels like his household-status is being threatened.  After Shamus leaves, Ezekiel has constant temper tantrums and then in bed at night, he has nightmare after nightmare.  My heart just breaks for him because as many times as I explain to him that no one can take the place of him, he still gets this nervous energy that takes a whole day to shake (he actually dry-washes his hands when Shamus is here).  Here they both are though after I exhausted them with loads of play:


We went to the store the other day and Ezekiel was such a good boy that I told him he could have whatever he wanted.  He didn't pick out toys...  he picked out these rain boots - they have cows on them - and the candy necklace.  He calls the boots his "cow boots" and insists on wearing them quite frequently.


Here he is being our bath time baby:




This is his favorite toy ever.  It does not belong to him (he was at Mandy's playing with it) and we cannot find it anywhere.


He is all about dinosaurs right now.  Or dino-roars as he calls them.  Today we bought him a dinosaur encyclopedia that already he has spent about an hour looking at.

Yesterday, we had Angie's baby shower to go to.  We really wanted to get Ezekiel a haircut (it gets a little old having your son constantly referred to as "that cute little girl").  We made a last minute appointment to have it done right before we had to be at Jeff's and Feather's.  Here he is with his curls still in place:


As a chocolate-faced fishie:


My little guy:


And after the haircut..  I'm not really sure what I think of it.  It takes some adjusting to because he looks so much like a little boy and not a baby:




At Angie's baby shower, his best friend Jazzie showed up.  They are so hilarious together.  Jazzie is 4, yet E. is bigger than she is.  He simply loves her.  They hold hands every where they go (if Jazzie starts to walk off without Ezekiel, he says "hey, hey, hands!!" and she comes back and grabs his hands.  They will be playing together, and then they will just stop and hug each other or give each other a kiss.  It is so, so sweet.  I don't remember a time when Ezekiel had such a little friend that he got along with so well.

Here he is, going in for the kiss:


That's Ezekiel's little chubby arm - it is around Jazzie.  The other arm is around Shamus.


Trying to impress by drinking out of a big kid cup (although, really, he prefers the regular cups to sippy cups):




Trying to get Byrum-the-Dog to come see them:


Pulling Jazzie along by the hand:


Ezekiel is not allowed soda to drink (or Dah as he calls it).  Can't you tell?






And... he walks off with it to finish it later:


With so much sugar and soda running through his system, he starts getting a little rowdy.  First, he attacks Feather from behind.






He's obviously pleased with himself:


Then he does a "walk by ripping" to "help" open gifts:


You can see the buzz slowly wearing off


HAHA, trying to escape from Uncle Jeff.  He is looking at me as if to say 'please help'


Doesn't Angie look great?  As Marty said "she looks so classicly 70s and so healthy"


Seriously?  The cutest belly I've ever seen.  It could be in magazines.  **side note:  Angie, if you hate this picture being up, I WILL erase it :)


Vinnie getting Angie giggling.  I think it was about this time that Vin was trying out the various bibs:


Here's Nana with Ezekiel:


And Marty with Shamus:




And Angie walking into her baby shower:


Well, Marty is putting Ezekiel to nah-nights right now and I never get a break from doing that, so I'm off to go enjoy myself :)