Lately

I've been meaning to take pictures of Ezra in Bible class pretty much since he started at 4 months, but just remembered the other day to bring the camera. He LOVES Bible class. I teach his class on Wednesday nights and he gets excited when any of the little flowers/clouds/fish/etc. pass in front of him (they learn about creation in Bible class).
Last weekend we visited Tyler to see Chad's family before we left for the summer. Ezra had a hard time during the traveling. On our way to Tyler we stopped at Erin's house to take a little break and feed Ezra. We had given him a full bottle in the car, and when we got to Erin's house we gave him a couple containers of food. During the second container, he started gagging and threw up everywhere. By the time we got him and everything else cleaned up, he was crying pretty hard, and he felt hot, so we took his temp which was around 101. There wasn't much we could do except just keep going on to Tyler, and we got there without much more excitement. Anyway, we could just tell he didn't feel great that weekend, and I guess in a moment of weakness I let him try a popsicle at gramme's house, which of course he loved.
Sorry, this post is really random. That was pretty much the only picture I took in Tyler. Sorry.

Ezra has been really cracking us up lately. I know it's one of those things where we think he's hilarious and it's really not that funny, but it's my blog so I get to share. He likes to mimic high-pitched noises and singing. So we do a lot of high-pitched singing around here these days. He has perfected his army crawl, pretty much using his left elbow and left foot only, with his stomach dragging the floor, and I'm not sure he'll ever learn to crawl for real because he is so proficient at this. The last couple mornings we have walked in to him sitting up in his crib. Last night when I was about to go to bed, I turned on the video monitor just to peek at him and he was awake, sitting up in his crib, just looking around in the dark room in complete silence. It just struck me as really funny. We're enjoying watching his little personality unfold. He is a super happy baby and is in a good mood about 90% of the time, but he also has quite a little temper if he doesn't get his way. He has also started to really prefer me and Chad, and he will get upset if one or both of us is not in view or if we hand him off to someone else. I know a lot of moms kind of like if their kid gets upset when someone else is holding them, but it's not fun for me at all. I want Ezra to be a friendly baby. :)

I guess that's about it. We are leaving in 5 days so this will probably be my last blog post for a while. Who knows how much things will have changed in 2 1/2 months?