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!

Watching themselves on the flip...

They love watching vids of themselves on the flip. Annie, obviously, is 'in-charge' of the flip buttons because, obviously, 'Ezzy is too little to touch it.' Ahhh, good thing he is so mellow. ;o)

Ezra's new tricks

Well, first of all, he can stand up now! So far, only when he is holding on to something, but it'll be hands-free soon, I'm sure! He loves crawling (still mostly his funny 'worm' crawl) over to the stairs and attempting to climb them. His 'climbing' consists of pulling himself upright and then banging his hands on the step. It's really too funny!

He does a few other new things that are pretty funny, too. He 'talks' back and forth with us by blowing raspberries (not sure how else to describe this...you know what I mean though, right?) and babbling syllables over and over (mmmmbah, bah, bah). He kisses us with his mouth wide open. He bites me on the shoulder when I hold him and then makes the saddest face ever (his mouth like a rainbow) when I tell him 'no' then waits a beat and smiles. Stinker. And coolest trick of all - he does this thing where he holds his hand flat, palm up, and then gestures towards something. I tried to get a picture of it yesterday (see below) but it wasn't the greatest example. The picture is cute though because I was doing the gesture with my hand and his eyes are looking at my hand instead of me/camera- cuteness. Anyway, on Saturday we were at a friends house and he clapped his hands for the first time! And then on Monday morning he and I were hanging out on the couch before Annie woke up and he clapped again a couple of times. THEN, (here comes the cute part, finally), Annie comes downstairs and little Ezra gestures towards Annie and then claps his hands!!! Annie says, "Presenting Annie! Good job, buds!" Oh man, I have reason to believe she is training her poor brother up to be her future emcee...

Annie said...

I can hardly keep track of all the adorable and funny things that come out of Annie's mouth lately. Here are a few gems from this last month:

"I saw the line on Daddy where they cut him and put a new dependix in."

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"I'm young. Soon I will be old, like Uncle Diddy" (Ha ha ha - sorry David!)

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Upon waking up in the morning:
"Someday I'm going to get married. Yep. Daddy is going to buy me a ring and a marry cake. A big one!"
(Further investigation of this statement led to her letting me know she dreamed that she got married... to Daddy! Precious! And a great story to tell when she starts dating!!)

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In response to my questioning what she was reading about (she was looking at a picture of all the planets and space in the creation story in her children's Bible);
"I'm just reading the Bible... it's a story about an astronaut named Moses."

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And one more...
Whenever I do something that she likes or that makes her happy she compliments me by saying, "You are the famous Mommy! You are so good!" Gotta love that!

Sister Bear & Brother Bear

This picture is the best out of a 10 minute attempt at getting a good one of the two together... ugh, not an easy task! I like this one anyhow, because it shows both of their moods that day. Not a generic 'smile' face or anything too planned- just my babies being themselves. Anyhow, I realized that Ezra is already 9 months old and I really don't have that many photos of the two together- which is strange, since they are pretty much always together!

They have been really interacting a lot lately, which is so fun to watch. I get a kick out of anything they do together, even when they are not getting along. It's pretty funny to see Ezra's reaction to Annie taking something away from him-- he usually squeals, grabs her arm or leg, and tries to bite her- yikes!! Hopefully this will be ancient history once he has words to tell her how he feels... hopefully. ;o)

It is sweet how much they love each other already. Ezra and I are always awake before Annie, having some good one-on-one time, he is happy to be with me, but his face really lights up the moment Annie comes in the room. He is always thrilled to see her and she usually snuggles him and they 'talk' and giggle together for a sweet moment before we head down for breakfast.

Every so often Annie reminds me that she wants to share a room with Ezra when he is bigger. She says they want bunk beds and matching stuff. We'll see if this is still her plan in a few years!

She also tells me that when Ezra is big, like her, that I need to order another baby-- this time a girl! If only it were that easy! Well, at least we know she loves being a big sister!!

Playdoh Cookies

Annie and I made some homemade playdoh for a play date last week and we are still having lots of fun with it! She loves to bake, so she decided to make some cookies. She added some glitter for 'sprinkles' and then baked them in our empty wine rack. Glad the wine rack is getting some use out of sitting empty in the dining room- ha ha!

Ezra is 9 months old!