Monsters

We bought Monsters Vs. Aliens today. Pantera calls it "Monsters birth of Aliens." After watching the movie and playing monsters with me she says "A monster's got to does what a monster got to does." Don't you forget that.

Happy Birthday Ezekiel!

I can't believe it's been a year already! I was getting all sobby looking back at pictures of him, it is crazy how fast they grow and how much their little personalities develop over one year. So here are some things about Zeke that you may or may not know:

-He has many nicknames such as Zeke, Zekie, Zekls, Stinkls, Stinky, and Bubby.
-If someone passes gas, he waves his little hand in front of his face to say ew.
-Zeke LOVES animals. Especially his "Pupa" and "KeeCat."
-If it is low enough for his chubby little knee to reach, he WILL climb it, people, animals, furniture, anything!
-Zeke has had is first kiss outside the family already. There is a cute 16 year old girl in our Sunday School class, so he went for it.
-He loves music.
-His favorite book is "How Does a Dinosaur Say Goodnight?" If you read it to him you are guaranteed a kiss, so I like it to.
-Zeke is my biggest fan, he loves all my artwork and gets so excited about it.
-He can say Dada and does from time to time.
-He only says Mama if I walk away and he is sad.
-He calls Tera "Rera" and he says her name the most.
-He LOVES his big sister and tries to do everything she does.
-If you have a blanket out, it is time to wrestle.
-If you are folding laundry, Zeke likes to take it out of your hands and laugh. When that gets old he unfolds all you have folded and laughs. If that is not enough, he crawls into the basket and sits on all of the laundry so you can't get it, then laughs.
-He has the best laugh and he uses it ALOT.
-When he plays peek-a-boo he covers his ears, not his eyes.

I hope you enjoy the Zekie facts, I just love this guy! I am so grateful to be his Mom, he brought so much joy into our lives! It is amazing to look at him and know my prayers were all answered he is our little miracle baby. We LOVE YOU Zeke!

Banana Keeper

Pantera loves to dress up the animals. Luckily they both have really good tempers and they just let her. In the picture Pantera says "It's good to be king!"
This just made my day the first time I saw it. She looks so creepily happy about this product, it cracks me up. It's a great marketing tool, I bought it strictly for the picture!

Zeke's room so far...

I will be doing big lettering above the pictures and a fading red background. I wanted to keep it high enough to put a bed underneath without covering my work.

Zeke has been sick and has had a bad attitude! He was mad at me so he knocked over my paint water with a loud grunt. He also hit me and told me I was bad for putting him down today. In other news, Pantera told me that she likes Taylor Swift better then Hannah Montana! Last week this was highly offensive to even suggest, but now she said "I think Taylor is a better example." So do I!

High Heels Steekers

Pantera is favoring Taylor Swift these days. This makes my happy because I don't find her and her music completely obnoxious like Hannah Montana's. I do worry about some of the "Saxy" moves Tera does while she is dancing, I don't know where she gets this stuff from! We were helping out a friend last week and thought we might need to take her kids overnight for her. Pantera was explaining to the boy that is her age that he will need to fold his arms during bedtime prayers if he sleeps at our house. He responded "I don't pray." Pantera got so excited and said "That's great! I will teach you how and then I will give you a Book of Mormon!"

We flipped Zeke's carseat around to face forward, he loves it! Jess and I love looking back and getting his cheesy smiles, then he claps for us. It's great. He was clapping in his sleep the other morning. He would smile really big and clap, then snore and do it again. I can't believe how big he is. We had a doctor appointment for the baby this morning and heard another heartbeat, so far so good!

"BA" Dog

Lacey drives me crazy most days. She is at the most obnoxious of the puppy stages and she is no longer little and cute enough to get out of trouble. She was chewing up one of Zeke's puzzles the other day and I caught her. I took it from her and said "Bad Lacey, BAD BAD!" Lacey knows those words all to well, so she went to pout in the corner. A minute later I hear a cute little Zeke voice telling her "BA, BA, BA!" He finally called Jess "Dada" for sure yesterday, he was trying to get out of naptime so he crawled over to Jess laid his head next to Jess' and said "Dada." He is also saying "Ka" for catch when he throws a ball. Today he told me "Ka" then threw the ball off of the trampoline, on purpose! He fell asleep in his crib sitting up last night Jess and I watched him for like 5 minutes waiting for him to fall over, but he just kept doing the sleep nod over and over. We finally had to help lay him down, it was hilarious.

Pantera has been nothing but drama, what's new huh? This morning she was playing a game with instruments and she informed me she did not like saxophones. I asked her why not and she said "They are disgusting, why do they have that word in it? Like when they say someone's saxy, ew."

Here you go ruff ruff...

I thought I had a better before pic, its the wall on the right.

And we no longer have this randomness, the CD player doesn't even work...

Meredith has been on my case to post pics of the projects we are doing. This past weekend Jess and his friend Jerry learned how to drywall from his good buddy Paul Ricks(Thank you Paul!). They cut out a piece of the wall that they former owner put up himself (YOU COULD TELL!!!) and made a fun spot for the TV. I will post more pics when I am done painting the room. But we did get our first decoration up!!! My dad made me this sign for my birthday in February and I haven't been able to put it up because it was to heavy for the walls at the old place. I love this sign! He has started a sign making business so I will add the link on the side of my blog, just in case you want to copy me.

Love these kids!

We always have drama in our house with Miss Tera. The other day she was pouting because she "Has all the other scriptures, but not the Pearly Great Price!" So I told her we would get her a copy. I told her months ago that I would be painting a mural on her wall when we bought the house. She has changed her mind about 50 times as to what she wants. So I started sketching Zeke's on his wall, it is Bolt, he loves dogs and cats so I thought it would be perfect; plus Tera turned it down and I love the movie. She walked into his room, saw what I was doing and FREAKED! "I wanted Bolt on my wall, I'm the only one who likes him. You never paint me anything! It's not fair." I don't know if I have mentioned it before, but Pantera has an art gallery in her bedroom. I have painted her anything she has ever asked for, but it is not directly on her wall so I guess it doesn't count. She has decided she wants Tinkerbell now, I think turning her room into "Pixie Hollow" would be cute, we will see how long til she changes her mind.

She is still so sweet with Zeke. He just adores her and occasionally likes to tease her, but they play so well together. She loves to get in his playpen with him and play dogs. And he loves to play on the trampoline with her. She is such a good helper with him. He is lucky to have such a good big sister and she is lucky to have someone who tries to keep up with her!

old man walk

Kee Cat

I can't believe it's been a week already! Pantera is no longer the only granddaughter on the Hammond side! Jess' brother Caleb and his wife Marie had a super cute little girl on Thursday, her name is Elliot. I thought Pantera was going to be the only girl forever! She keeps claiming that we are having a girl (we will see!). I have been SICK!!! I have had morning sickness for 5 weeks now, I am only 8 1/2 weeks! Oh and I am starting to show already, yikes.

Today was major drama with Pantera at church. She accidentally didn't get the water for the sacrament, oh man! She had to be brought into my Sunday school class because she said she wasn't feeling well. I asked her what was wrong and she said she "needs the water from the sacrament. I tried to get a drink from the drinking fountain, but it wasn't the same!" At least she knows it's important. We have friends named Buck and Chanie. Pantera has decided to call Buck "Buckwheat" she thinks it is so funny. Chanie told me that Tera is the only one who could EVER get away with it.

Zeke is Zeke. He is so WILD. He is all over the place and into everything. He calls Tera "Rera" it is so cute! He can say "Kee Cat" for kitty cat. I have a painting of Simba on Tera's wall and Zeke gets so excited every time he sees it. He flaps his arms wildly and shouts "KEE CAT!" He is also loving his new kitty Diesel, he will be an outside cat for mousing.