“Checking the mail? *Yawn* Mom, that no fun, because I never get anything.”
“Wait!…”
“This one is for ME!”
“What could it be?”
“An orange shirt!”
“And a brown shirt with footballs on it! Wow! Thanks Grandpa & Nene! I love them! Dad especially likes the football shirt & Mom can’t believe I’m going to be that big so soon, but I will be, because I’m a growing boy!”
On one of my recent shopping trips, they were selling pumpkins and I just couldn’t resist. Yes, this is how I go shopping these days; I load Ezra into the stroller & fill the bottom & front as full as possible. That way I get a bit of exercise & get groceries at the same time. Anyways, I figured every kid needs a pumpkin for the fall.
Ezra was thrilled!
Look how cute: Ezra & his first pumpkin!
Bonus for mom: it makes a great fall decoration for the table
Sometimes I miss…
-8 hours of uninterrupted sleep
-Surfing/Typing with both hands. I’m usually using the other to nurse Ezra.
-my mind. I can barely finish a sentence these days, much less a conversation. The other day I couldn’t find our cordless phone (landline, not cellphone) & so I paged it – it was in my purse!
-7 hours of uninterrupted sleep
-Clean clothes. By the end of the day, I usually have spit-up on my shirt, sometimes my pants, & sometimes both. If not spit-up, then definitely drool.
- my completed “To-do” list. I can’t get half of what I want or need to get done every day. Last week it took all week just to get my house dusted & vacuumed!
-6 hours of uninterrupted sleep
-Spontaneity. No longer can Micah & I decide at 5:00 to go out to dinner. Well, we could, but by the time we loaded up the baby, got the diaper bag, unloaded the baby, fed the baby, loaded up the baby, got our coats, unloaded the baby, changed the baby, loaded up the baby and left, it would be at least 6:00 and that is about when he starts to become unpleasant!
- A quick…_________(fill in the blank: trip to the store, run to the bank, stop to pick up light bulbs, run back to school to pick up that forgotten item, dinner). They just don’t exist anymore!
-5 hours of uninterrupted sleep
-My heart! It’s gone. Ezra has it. All he has to do is smile, coo, laugh, squeal, sigh, sneeze, or well, just about anything & it melts all over again.
My life will never be the same again. And you know what? I’m not sorry!
Micah took me to Adelboden last weekend and I loved it! We had the entire Janz Team chalet to ourselves (it would probably hold around 50+ people). It was quiet & we just relaxed & enjoyed ourselves away from home! I would go back in a heartbeat!
View from the Chalet
Again the view – so beautiful!
Ezra slept in the hallway in his Pack N’ Play…
He didn’t seem to mind! At least not too much!
We spent a lot of time in this room
We went for a walk/hike (what is it if it is mostly on paved pathways, but takes 3 hours?)
Ezra did great! Isn’t his hat SO cute?
On our jaunt we saw baby cows…
Waterfalls…
and cute chalets! See how the ‘path’ goes right through these peoples’ yard. I couldn’t believe it!
At this point the path went into this crack in the ground.
There were huge boulders overhead…
and a stream at the bottom!
Of course, Ezra got hungry before we got back to the house, so we stopped for him to eat. As I was feeding him, it started to rain a little bit, so Micah loaned me his hat!
Back at the Chalet, Ezra tried out his new jacket that we got for him. You can’t see it very well, but there is a little hedgehog on the side – SO cute!
The whole family in Adelboden!
Ezra holding onto “chicky”
Ezra’s first golf lesson – it’s never too soon to start!
Tummy time with Johnny Tractor
Old Man Powers & his wife (the theme for Fall Party was opposites so we dressed like this & brought Ezra with us)
Ezra hanging out with the Witt girls
First time in the Excer-saucer! He enjoys the new perspective on life!
Mommy & Ezra
On the changing table…again.
Wearing jeans for the first time & looking so grown up
