Pop-Pop's Birthday

We took a trip to Japan! Haha, no just the Japanese Steakhouse for Pop-Pop's 60th birthday.  Our camera battery was dead so Micah took these with his phone, not bad considering!
While we were waiting to be seated, a man guessed Ezekiel to be 3 weeks old.  Kind of funny when we told him he's almost 4 months.  He was pretty close though if you go by his weight.  We're guessing he's around 9 or 10 pounds now.  We'll find out in about 2 weeks when I take him for his next checkup at the pediatrician.

It was SO nice to get of the house for awhile.  The food was amazing (it's one of our favorite restaurants).  I feel like I'm pretty easily entertained these days.  Anything out of our ordinary routine gets me excited.  It was fun to watch our food get cooked in front of us.  There were also a couple of crying babies around us while our *ahem* angel baby ;) slept.  Made me feel better to see other babies who would only be happy if you were up standing with them, and yet their moms attempt to get out the house too.


Ezekiel is talking it up these days with lots of smiles for everyone.  Every once in awhile we'll catch him studying his feet but he seems to be kind of over that for right now.  His new thing is putting his fist in his mouth and attempting to chew his elbow.  He's drooling a lot and pulling his ear.  That leads us to think he's starting to teeth.  Haven't seen any little pearly whites poking through yet though.  He still hates tummy time but when he is on his stomach he digs his feet in and pushes, with his upper body dragging along.  Still working on coordinating that :).

Ezekiel's Welcome Home Party

We originally had a baby shower planned in mid March, along with another one planned in my hometown that same month.  My due date was May 2nd, so we thought that was plenty of time.  Ezekiel had bigger and better plans, so the parties were delayed.  Last weekend we finally had a makeup party for him!  We had to wait awhile until we got the green light from his pediatrician to be able to take him into large crowds.  It was nice for our family and friends to finally meet him!

Outings

We've started to get a routine going these days with Ezekiel's wake time.  We start the day off with a bath.  I wanted this to be apart of his bedtime routine originally but I gave up on that for now.  Late evenings is his fussiest time of day, and bath time doesn't seem to be a comfort to him during that time.  Late morning I usually try to do some blanket/tummy time.  He's really against the tummy time, but we're working on it.  Early afternoon is when we try to get out, anywhere.  It's summer time, with highs in the high 90's and heat index in the 100's so that means no outdoors for us.  We usually run errands, or our favorite, go meet up with daddy over his lunch break.  Micah has been pretty swamped at work so unfortunately we don't get to do that as often as we all would like but when we do, it's a treat.  We'll usually go walk around the mall that's around the corner from his work.  Ezekiel is a fan of his car seat and will sleep through pretty much anything in it!  Yesterday we were walking back to the car and for probably the first time ever he opened his eyes and looked around for awhile as if he was trying to gather what was going on.  He's not used to waking up mid day on a weekday to seeing his daddy pushing him around in a huge store. :)

Smiles

These were a nice treat for momma.  He usually saves them up for the ceiling fan or the swaying palm trees outside. :)

3 months!

Ezekiel is 3 months old now!  Can't believe he's been home twice as long as he was in the hospital already.

He has really started to babble and smile.  Especially at ceiling fans and his crib mobile.  Not sure what it is about the fans.  My guess is that because they are dark against the white ceiling he likes the high contrast but who knows.  Micah's guess is that Ezekiel thinks they are big people mobiles :).

We started taking him outside more and he really seems to enjoy it.  He might be fussy inside and then we take him out and he'll just sit contently for quite a while.

We moved!  It was a pretty daunting task with a newborn but between my parents, and Micah's grandparents helping out, we got it done.  We don't know how we would have gotten it done without them.
We're still in the middle of fighting those short sales... we're currently on our 3rd place and we've been doing this since December.  We're hoping 3rd time's a charm... or well, that we make it to closing day at least!