November 2011- Ezra turns one!

I still am having a hard time believing that my baby is one (keep in mind, I am writing this 3 months later...). Ezra had not one, but two wonderful birthday parties to celebrate his special day. The first was in Arizona, with a good amount of family, neighbors, and friends here to party with us. We had a 'guys' party for him (Sesame Street) on a Saturday morning, in our home. His second party was in Minnesota, hosted by my sweet Mama and sisters at my little sister's house. It was a super cute 'Donuts and Diggers' theme, complete with trucks all over the place!

On Ezra's actual birthday we took him to Red Robin- at big sister Annie's request. Ezra loved their sweet potato fries, and wasn't really impressed with the sing-at-your-table birthday routine the servers do at the restaurant.

At 12 months old, Ezra was saying a few words (probably not clear to anyone other than ourselves), including 'kitty,' 'mom,' and 'ball.' I'm pretty sure those three words were Annie's first words as well. ;o) These words make sense for him though, he loves Mylo and Mommy, and could play roll-the-ball all.day.long. Ezra does lots of other super cute baby tricks, like smiling a super big squinty-eyed smile when prompted. We adore him. Seriously, so cute!!!

Ezra's Arizona birthday party:

And, the Minnesota party:

Happy Holidays... New Year, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween...

Um, yeah... I'm a little behind on the posts. The good news is that we are too busy having fun to get to all of our 'to do' items- including blogging. I know I could just pick up where we're at, and no one would think anything of it, but for the sake of record keeping I will do a little post for each month I missed. This one is about Halloween! As in, October 2011. ;o)

Annie chose her costume this year- she wanted to be Strawberry Shortcake. I did my best to put together a cute costume, and Annie even helped by decorating the cute hat we found online. Ezra was the Karate Kid for his very first Halloween. We went trick-or-treating in our neighborhood with some friends and then went to a little party afterwards. Annie, just like last year, wasn't interested in hitting up a lot of houses to get tons of candy. She was satisfied with just a few pieces and wanted to eat them right away. Like, 'go home now' and eat them... Ezra, on the other hand, may take after his daddy when it comes to trick-or-treating. He would say, 'Eh!!,' point to the next house, and then sort of giddy-up kick his legs against whomever was carrying him at the moment. He would clap when he got candy in his bucket... he has never even eaten so much as one bite of candy, but he knew it must be good!

Besides trick-or-treating, we visited a pumpkin patch/farm and went to our annual neighborhood Boo Bash. It was a fun time, as all holidays are when you have little ones to celebrate with!