Santa!

We went to see Santa Friday. We got diverted to this Santa but I'm glad we did. He was so nice and fun. I think he is the real one!

This was the day Zeke didn't want to smile for any camera shots. He was playful with him off the camera though.
Gabe was very fascinated with Santa. I couldn't get him to look forward, I even went back a second time to try again. Wish I would have took more of Santa playing with him, now I know he wouldn't look at me anyway :( Oh well.

Thought I would throw this one in. I made banana bread for the neighbor gifts this year. When I went in the other room, I noticed it was pretty quiet. We ended up keeping a couple of loaves for ourselves after Zeke helped me glaze/stab them! :)

Christmas Pictures

We actually got family pictures done on Friday at Sears but Zeke didn't want to smile, I don't think Gabe did either but none of them really worked, and they were regular pictures. So today we did our Christmas family picture too! It's hard to get everyone to smile at the same time, especially with no one watching, just a timer button!

Here is Gabriel singing his Christmas songs!

And Zeke saying his cute cheeeeeese!

My cute boys! All 3 of them.

Me and the boys. Yes I know I look cheesy.

Snow Play

Here is Gabriel his first time playing in the snow. We took them out when it was lightly snowing last Saturday, just for fun.

Monday we got another 2 feet of snow! Zeke thought this was pretty funny. Gabe wasn't too interested in the snow yet. Zeke loved it until his hand got too cold when his glove fell off.

He looked so cute all puffy and bundled!

Poor Gabe, his hood wouldn't stay on. He only stayed out a couple of minutes. Now we just need to build him a snowman!

Catch Up

Okay I'm finally trying to catch up on my blogging. Even now I am only here because Brig is so good to entertain the kids. I haven't really put pictures up since July so there is a bit to catch up on. I just printed out a ton of pictures to hard copy so between that, here, and facebook, I can't remember what went where so I may have skipped some, and I may have doubled up on some but they are worth seeing twice if I did. I love Gabe's face here, he pulls some funny ones, they are both so expressive.

They love to go for walks, when it's warm outside this is a daily routine. I hate when it's cold, it's hard on all of us. I wish we got the 3 months of fall instead of 3 weeks.

I love that they love each other. It is so cute to look over and see them playing together or giving each other 'lovies'!

More Zeke

Zeke used to fight me with pictures, not sure if it was knowingly but I could never get one. Now he likes to see the picture on the camera so he loves to get his picture taken. He is posing here. If I take a picture of Gabe he wants one of him too, usually doing the same thing!

He has all sorts of cool and funny tongue tricks. This was just a face. It shows off his teeth though, today he actually got #15 broken through.
For a little while he didn't want to sit in the highchair, he wanted to sit like a big boy, and he does look so big!

Katie took the boys out to play and of course Zeke found the water, he loves water.

I never thought to take a picture of this, but I love it. Zeke has a million toys but he loves rocks. We go for a walk, he's fine the whole time playing with a rock. He likes to bring them in the house and play with them. I don't know what is so entertaining about them but he sure is fascinated by them.

Here is Zeke's first time on the potty! He sat there ready to go. Then I got the camera out to capture the moment. Not sure if it was the camera or him, but he stood up and peed on the floor right by the potty. I wasn't even trying to get him to go, just introducing it to him, but he wanted to try. Still haven't been forcing the issue, but he has peed on the potty 5 times already! He has peed on the floor by the potty about 20 :( I'm trying to decide if he's ready, and if I am.

He liked to get his teeth brushed then he hated it, then he discovered my electric toothbrush and loved it again, so we switched the head and use that. Now sometimes he likes it sometimes he doesn't.

This may be a repeat picture but it's still cute. The little monkey. He learned how to climb so now he climbs up, over, on, through..... everything.

Zeke has a new fascination with puting things on his arms, usually scrunchies, but anything that will fit. Some of the times he looks like a little warrior. This picture reminds me of the Army of Heleman, not that they did this but he is an honorable young man.

After church he carried his tie around, held it on with his chin for a while. Silly boy.

Zeke was playing with this pan, first as a toy, then as peek-a-boo, then he discovered the echo so he would put it all the way on his head and sing and laugh, then make sure we were watching and do it again, very clever.

I finally surrendered the spoon for the mess. I thought he should be able to feed himself by now and realized he probably could if I let him try more. He still uses his hands occassionally but he can finally use a spoon. Here is his efforts with spaghetti. He did soup the other day, did really well with it, but the bib saw quite a bit.

More Gabe

This is Zeke's hat but Gabriel looks so cute in hats. They both do, and they actually wear them too.

Here is another cute picture in a hat. Also note the feet. I love how he does this. He is such a little koala.

This picture makes me laugh. It kind of reminds me of the 'Al Bundy' pose. Except he's so innocent.

He looks so peaceful!

We have had our concerns with Gabriel. He refused to eat anything for a while. We tried everything. Amazingly he is back on the charts at the 3%, small but okay. This is a cute picture of him with his bottle, but he actually won't take bottles anymore, (well never really would). He nurses well, except not often, only about 4 or 5 times in 24 hours :(

The good news is he loves food! He will eat his baby food really well. He also loves munchies like puffs and cheerios. He gets so excited to drink from a cup of water and tries to grab our food if we're eating. He wants adult food soooo badly! It's really funny to watch the effort that goes into trying to snatch it from us.

I caught this picture of him singing. He used to hum himself to sleep. Then he discovered his voice and he would sing and distort his voice everyway he could figure out. His latest thing is blowfishes/raspberries, he does them REALLY well. It is funny to hear such a loud sound come from such a tiny boy!

Halloween 2009

I know I haven't updated forever. But instead of waiting to find time to catch up, I thought I should at least put some Halloween pictures on so you could see how cute they still are.

They were even cuter later on but the camera battery died, so we only got the pictures of Gabriel when he wasn't used to his costume yet. Here they are together, two cute boys but they must have looked like girls because quite a few people said look how cute she is.

Here is Zeke's cute puppy dog face (covered with soup). He really wanted to be a doggy this year. It took a little while to figure out the trick or treating, by the end he was trying to grab handfuls of candy at a time!

Here is Gabe all bundled up, I was expecting it to be really cold so I was prepared. It ended up being a fairly warm day so I think he was too warm at times.

Here's daddy with the boys at my sister's trunk or treat party Friday.

Me with the boys Halloween getting ready for 3 more trunk or treat parties! Good and bad that they didn't get very much chocolate :)

We were going to go to the cabin again this year but then Brigham needed the time off for their family reunion so we weren't going to go. His brother Ben got the cabin in August. Brig ended up trading shifts to get an extra long weekend so we ended up going for a few days after all. We didn't go to Yellowstone this time.
It was pretty cold but Zeke didn't care, he wanted to jump right in. He's a good splasher. He would have stayed in the water all day but mean mommy said it was too cold. He had a lot of fun though.

Here is Brigham and Zeke with most of Ben's family on the new cabin toy.


A chair just his size. Zeke spent a lot of his time here, he loved it!

Here is Gabriel showing off his new pj's.

A scenic family photo.

Gabe has such a cute smile.

Gabriel 4-5 months

Thought I would show off some of his cute pictures and big smiles! Look at the hair!

One of his first reactions to toys. He laughed at this elephant over and over, it was so cute!

He likes this elephant too. Big smiles!

He loves to bounce and climb. Here he is trying to climb over daddy. He didn't here, but he can now!

Here he is exactly 5 months! He's got some good expressions.

Starting to sit up on his own already. (He can now)

All dressed up for church.