It's in the genes.

Ezra wore sandals (sans-socks) with his church pants today.  I had no say in this, obviously.

He came home from church and promptly changed into gray shorts and brown socks.

It gets worse.

He wore said socks with flip-flops.

Apparently the bad-clothes gene doesn't believe in skipping a generation...

Our mighty little acorn

Goodness, this summer has been insane! I'm hoping to catch-up on here eventually, we'll see if that happens.  So, for the next while you'll be getting old stuff mixed in with new stuff.  Hopefully I'll be all caught up in time to start posting fall festivities :P  Anyway, enjoy!

On July 3rd, when Oak was almost a month old, we had his baby blessing.  It was short and sweet...kinda like him :)  We took some pictures in front of our old oak tree (how fitting is that?) after church.  We're all looking a little worse-for-wear as we had gone through rain and three hours of church, but c'est la vie.

 One big happy family!

 Team Testosterone

Team Estrogen

 Ahhhhh...

 The picture (oddly) makes his face look unusually yellow.  I'm sure there's a way to fix that on photoshop, but I haven't figured that out yet :P  I'm posting it anyway because it give a full shot of his blessing outfit, which I adore (I seriously had it picked out months before he was actually born and bought it even though it was gobs too big for him).

Annnnd now we have some completely random shots for your viewing pleasure.

Here my sister is trying to prove to me that funny pictures can still be cute pictures...

I call this The Shirley Temple

I'm not convinced.

As an added bonus for making it to the end of the post, you get 2 whole FREE updated pictures of my youngest offspring.  yay! yay!

 

This is what Oak looks like at this. very. second. all 7 weeks, 3 days of him.

How cute is he?  I mean, really.

The End.

You say Ketchup, I say Catch-Up, part III

In May, Ezra had his end-of-year program for Preschool.  Ezra's not much of a sharer, so I was blown away by all the fun stuff he had learned and just "forgotten" to tell or show me.

Breakin' it down

 

Ezzie and Simey

That's all I have time for right now.  Hopefully y'all'll get more sooner rather then later, but I'm not promising anything.

Confession

Sometimes I nurse The Littlest at random times because I'm too darn lazy to go find his binkie.

just so you know.

A.B.A.A.

Introducing the newest member of  A.B.A.A....

 Angry Birds Addicts Anonymous

Eternal gratitude to Auntie Steph's nook for introducing Ezra to his newest obsession.
 

thanks bunches :P

My Amazing Daughter

Why, you might ask, is my daughter so amazing?  Doesn't every 2 year old girl adore playing with a Little People house and princess castle?  In short...no.  At least Georgia never did.  Actually, my two oldest have only fairly recently become interested in imaginative Little People/Imaginext toys at all.  Ezra always preferred building things and destroyed most other toys and Georgia pretty much just danced around in a princess dress and destroyed most other toys.  So, you'll have to excuse my ridiculously over-the-top amazement at my daughter and her ability to actually play with toys like they're supposed to be played with.  Even more astounding is that she plays like this all the time and pretty much has since she was a baby.  If it's not Little People, then it's with the play kitchen...and, guess what?  She actually pretends to cook in said play kitchen.  Don't even get me started on her ability to mother dolls.

Amazing, I know.

You say Ketchup, I say Catch-Up, part II

I officially hate blogger.  I've attempted three different times today to load Ezra's preschool graduation pictures and they all end up sideways. So...you get the one picture of the day that loaded correctly because it was already done landscape-style.   grrrr.

 

As I'm sure is obvious from Gee's Easter basket, this picture is from our Easter egg hunt.  I would provide you with more pictures, but all we managed to achieve was a heck of a lot of blurred pictures of the back of curly heads (and one not-so-curly head).  Not to mention, with the day I'm having blog-wise, they would've posted sideways anyway :P

Oh well...maybe tomorrow.

ps-on a random note, I had someone ask me if my kids were going to Vacation Bible School this summer.  After replying in the negative, that comment led me to a prolonged fantasy of how great it would be if my kids actually were going to VBS.  I'd get them out of my hair for a couple of blessed hours a day and they'd get to have gobs of fun while learning primary-ish stuff. Why, oh why, doesn't the LDS church do VBS!?  I'm thinkin' I might have to do some Vacation Bible School-shopping next summer.  Lest you think I have a problem with other churches teaching *cough*brainwashing*cough* my children...just ask Ezra to tell you his snack-time preschool prayer ;)