Movement....

BACKWARDS!!!! Eli is yet to move forward, but he gets on his hands and knees and tries to go forward resulting in going straight to his belly where he then pushes with his arms and moves himself backwards. Then, after complete frustration he lets out a loud scream letting you know he is NOT where he wants to be.

Where he started.

Where he ended.

Avoiding the Swine Flu

Here are the boys doing their part to avoid the swine flu...

Pulling up...

Eli's newest thing...

Last Weekend

was full of lots of differing events. First we all attended a USC game together. It was a great time as a family and the boys did great. Eli loved all the people to watch, noise that was made, and the big television screen. Eli is for sure our social one while Ezekiel was not too keen on the amount of noise, but did enjoy all the sights that were there to take in.

We also spent Sunday home sick. Ezekiel had a temperature, but we still had to bring some food to our church potluck- so here is Ezekiel in the car as we drove.

Pumpkins, Pumpkins, Pumpkins

I LOVE the pumpkin patch, which means we as a family make at least one visit during the month of October. We also just don't visit the pumpkin patch.....we dress up.

I LOVE pictures of the boys in their costumes amongst the pumpkins!

So here is our 1st visit of the month:

We had fun with our friends the Halls. Every outing with them is SUPER!

Eli is currently working on cutting his two top/front teeth- so....he was not super happy as you can see from the following pictures. I still think they are toooooo cute!

Bath Time Fun

The boys LOVE bath time. They now sit together in the bath so I thought I would give you a sneak peak at what it is like.

Eli cleaning Ezekiel.

Pure joy on Eli's face. He LOVES this time, which includes Ezekiel splashing him and tossing around a ton of water.

Almost

There are a couple almosts in our house:

1. Eli is ALMOST crawling. At least he can somewhat scoot to the things close that he wants to grab. I am sure that him crawling is right around the corner, but for now I am content in his sitting!

2. It is ALMOST Christmas. At least we thought it was for a moment as Eli opened his first Christmas gift- THANKS NONI! Eli is large and upon Josh's urging he just had to open his gift so that it would fit. He was right- he fits nicely in the green shirt- LOVE IT!

Go Bananas

B-A-N-A-N-A-S

3????? Seriously?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EZEKIEL!!!!!

I can't believe it has been three years since we first met Ezekiel face to face. He is such a joy. He is very animated and at such a fun stage.

Here are his loves at this stage of life:
loves to retell stories he has read
loves to YELL in excitement
loves to count
loves to get his brother to laugh
loves to wrestle with Daddy, especially tapping the elbow on him
loves Woody and Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story
loves popcorn, movie, and juice night
loves his Thomas the Train set
loves to have Daddy build boats from legos
loves to dig
loves to be outside, especially at Papa & Meme's house
loves going to baseball games
LOVES his BLANKIE!!!!
loves his doggie and monkey second
loves to play with Daddy in the morning and goes straight to him
loves to clean
loves tractors and being able to watch them work
loves cantaloupe, milk, hot dogs, raspberry ice tea


Ezekiel- we love you. You have an amazing ability to change the temperature of a room when you walk in. You are full of joy and happiness. You play hard. Though we hound you about obedience, you are an obedient, good boy. You have an energy that is amazing and it can wear most people out! You once stated: "Yeah, I wear a lot of people out!" You are so honest and so full of questions. You want to know the whys of everything. I am so touched when you look at me and say "Mommy, I love you". I love to hear your sweet simple prayer "God thank you. Bless our bodies." I love that you always want to watch and learn and of course do things yourself. You are so special to this family. You are a vital part of our family. We love you BABY BOY. You betch ya!

Here are some pictures of his actual birthday:


Hanging out with the family

Ezekiel got his very own Disneyland pass!

Celebration Begins...

Tonight we celebrated Ezekiel's 3rd birthday. We had dinner with Grandpa & Grandma Case and Papa & Meme.

Ezekiel chose the menu, so we had hot dogs and corn on the cob.

Since mommy didn't think that was enough food we also had cantaloupe, baked beans, and Papa brought shrimp. Ezekiel would have eaten the whole plate of shrimp by himself if we would have let him. He also got to open a grip load of presents.

With each gift he exclaimed "WOW". It was so neat to see the appreciation from a young boy of anything he opened. He was so glad for each gift. We ended the night with some cake and ice cream. Ezekiel is a pro at blowing out candles so we actually didn't even finish the song before he blew them out and of course we had to relight them to get a picture!


He had such a good time and was soooooooo excited. I can't wait until tomorrow- his actual birthday, as we head to Disneyland to celebrate our little guy!