One Month Old!

So, Ezra is one month old (as of yesterday)!!! It's hard to believe!! I emailed some pictures out and my mom responded by saying something about me having "healthy kids." I think that was a nice way of saying I have chubby babies :) A woman at my dr. office the other day said Ezra was a "bruiser" and I have heard several comments about his cheeks. And this is my SMALL baby!!! It is nice to know that he's getting plenty to eat and is growing well :) He was 8lbs, 4 oz at birth (down to 7lbs 9 oz two days later) and at his two week check-up he was 9lbs 6oz!!! He is working on catching up to his big brother (Sean Jr was 9lbs 3 oz at birth and 9lbs 8oz at two weeks). Ezra is a such a sweet baby. He is awake a bit more these days and is starting to smile every so often (he smiles a lot in his sleep, but has actually smiled while looking at us a few times) - it is so adorable! His umbillical cord has yet to fall off - it is a battle of wills, I think :) It is hanging on by a thread :) Someday we will see his belly button. Sean Jr is great with him and makes a cute, high-pitch voice when he talks to him. He likes to hold him (only for a minute or so, then he's done), and kiss him, and turn on the swing for him. It's fun to see our two boys together. And we are so enjoying having daddy home. He goes back to work on Nov 1, and then the real challenge will begin for all of us. Praise God for blessing Sean with such a great job and the opportunity to be home with us for over a month! Here is Ezra and his doggy (we took monthly "froggy" pics when Sean was a baby, so we got this doggy for Ezra).



Also, we took a trip to the pumpkin patch on Monday. Sean Jr wouldn't go on any of the rides or the ponies (although he did it last year), but he did go in the petting zoo. And he had a lot of fun chasing his daddy in and out of the rows of pumpkins :)

RENO

We just came back from a road trip to Reno for a Daley family reunion. The boys did GREAT on the road. Ezra mostly slept (just a few short screaming periods when we were almost to a stopping point). And Sean Jr did so well - he looked for cows and horses out the window and talked about what he saw, looked at books and toys, and even enjoyed listening to a Clive Cussler book on CD - kept asking us to turn the story back on. :) He was really good when Ezra would cry too - he said "mommy, I need a book so I can read to him so he can be happy." He's such a sweet big brother! We had a great time with all the family up there. We walked around Virginia City, went to buffet dinner at the Nugget, ate lots of good food, and just spent time hanging out together. What a blessing to have this family!!

Ezra James

Ezra James was born on Tues, Sep 25th at 12:11pm!!!! He was 8 lbs, 4 oz, 21 inches. Labor was just 4 1/2 hrs (much shorter than the 19 for Sean Jr). He has a head of dark brown hair and is a beautiful boy! More news and pics to come later.

Almost there!

So, it's September!!! And baby Ezra James is due in just 20 days!!!! God is so good - He has answered my prayers for this baby already. I was praying that he would be facing the right way and come on his own. I had a doctors appointment yesterday and the baby is in the right position (which is good, cause Sean wasn't) and my doctor sounds pretty confident that I'll go into labor on my own (induced with Sean)(I'm dillated to 1 so far). Praise God!!! And my doctor is going to be on call to be there for the delivery no matter if it's her day or not, which she doesn't do for everyone we've been told. It just takes away one of the unknowns and with it some anxiety. She was the one who delivered Sean and we like her a lot and know she knows us. So, we are just excitedly awaiting his arrival :)You can see more preg pictures on our flickr site (link to the left) - they're set to "private" so you need to be our "friend/family" on flickr to see them - it's easy to sign up.

Silly Faces

My friend, Viola came over today. We haven't seen her in about 7 months and she was snapping away pictures of Sean Jr. She is a graphic designer and emailed me some cool pictures that I wanted to share with all of you lovely people :)

July already?

Hard to believe it's already the end of July!! Only 10 weeks left until this baby is due! We've been taking Sean Jr with us to my OB appointments, and he likes to hear baby brother's heart beat! It's a fun family experience :) Sean Jr's is in a gymnastics class through the city now once a week and he loves it - especially "jumping off stuff" (his words). I'm going to attempt to put a link to flickr on here where you can see some pictures of that class and the 4th of July too. Also, we shaved Sean Jr's head - which shocked a lot of people the first time they saw, so there's a picture of that too. It seemed like a good thing to do for a sweaty little boy in the summer - and now he matches Daddy :) One more exciting thing this month is that he's wearing big boy underwear!!! Yea! It just kinda happened - he's a big boy now! It will be nice to not be buying diapers for two kids at the same time :) Hard to believe in two months we're going to have a little baby added to this family - so exciting! :)

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