Ten Months for Ezra

Here are a few pictures of Ezra at 10 months. Today, he stood on his own for about 10-15 seconds. He's pretty cautious, but is getting braver each day. Recently, he started laughing through his nose, which makes me laugh every time.

"SO BIG"

Ezra hates grass, just like his mother!!!

Moses trying to convince Great-Grandma to share her caramel popcorn :-)

Ezra at Nine Months

Ezra is now 9 1/2 months, to be exact! He had his 9 month doctor appointment yesterday. No shots, so that was good :-) Here are his stats: 29" long (70th percentile) 18 lbs 12 oz (18th percentile), 46.5" head circumference (66th percentile).

Ezra has been working on about four teeth. Look at that drool on his shirt! I think that the two top teeth are barely poking through. At least I hope so, for his sake. He's been pretty whiny& cranky these past few weeks. One of his many new accomplishments: the wave!

The cousins enjoying the beautiful weather! Eliza is a great helper with Ezra. Micah & Moses trying to improve their baseball skills.

Moses showing off his mustache. He loves calling his upper lip his mustache. For example: "I have some yogurt on my mustache." or "I hit Connel in his mustache."

Stitches

Moses came hopping in from outside with wet shoes this afternoon. Slipping and falling directly on his chin led to a visit to prompt care and three stitches. Thankfully, Aaron was here and took him. Aaron said he was screaming, "No, Daddy! Stop it!" over & over at the top of his lungs as Aaron tried to hold him down. If you look closely at his face, you can see where Moses broke little blood vessels with all the screaming. As they were pulling out of the parking lot, Moses told Aaron, "Doctors help me. They fixed my chin. Hooray!"

I convinced him to change his bloody clothes only after suggesting he put on a Toy Story shirt. Also, we had to change his band aid as soon as he got home from a boring band aid to- you guessed it- a Toy Story band aid. He is now resting peacefully and recovering while watching Toy Story 3.

Christmas Continued

Here are a few more pictures that I just received from our Christmas celebrations:

Sheer joy.

Moses loved playing in the box full of packing peanuts that held one of Amy's gifts.


Amy & Ezra all worn out from all of the excitement.

Christmas 2011

Here are some pictures from Christmas. Moses received a load of Toy Story items and not one was a duplicate :-) We had many family gatherings to attend, which is always fun.

Moses was so excited to get Mr. Potato Head from Great-Grandma & Great-Grandpa.

A few of the Meiss cousins: Eliza, Moses, Kianna, Micah, Ezra, & Nigel

Sleeping bags from Grandma.

Ezra loved the tissue paper!

Captain America & Green Lantern ready to save the world.

Dinner at the Dohner Christmas.

The Dohner men: Ezra, Aaron, Russell, Moses, & Mark. I believe we were just missing one, Aaron's Uncle David.

Ezra at Six Months

Ezra had his six month doctor appointment yesterday. The doctor confirmed what we already thought: Ezra is a long, skinny baby :-) He had four shots that he did not take well. He has been working on cutting his two bottom teeth for what seems like forever. On Saturday, we finally felt a corner of one of them. So, it's a start :-)

Ezra is sitting up by himself pretty well.

He loves to pull up to a standing position while holding on to our hands.

Moses, Micah, Ezra, Eliza, & their cousin Olivia Susan hanging out.

Family Time

My apologies for being so inconsistent with updating the blog. Here are some pictures from Thanksgiving & Williams' Christmas.

Ezra was out after a long day

Ella & Ezra hanging out.

Aiden, Micah, & Moses playing

Me & my cousins Amanda & Sarah

Eliza, Moses, & Micah with their edible artwork--painted sugar cookies!