crazy kid.

Man it has been a long time since I have posted anything in here. We seem to be so busy around here. Trying to keep a 3 year old entertained while getting ready for the latest addition to our family. Here's a couple recent pictures....

day with the fam bam at the zoo

Today we decided since Zeke woke up with WAY too much energy for us that we would go wander around at the zoo and hopefully burn some off. No such luck about the energy but the zoo was still pretty cool. The boys are NOT fans of cooperating with picture time so we just got a couple but here they are....

Santa Rosa Plateau

One of Dad's favorite old pastimes is hiking....and cliffjumping. So today we decided to check out if the Tenaja falls had water in them. The actual hike is 0.7 miles so we figured that Zeke could probably make that no problem so off we headed this morning...It turns out there is in fact water in the falls. And Zeke is not capable of walking that far but dad was super and carried him most of the way. Anyways we had a great day. Here are some good pictures of the day.

Halloween

Zeke was a SWAT policeman this year. We carved a total of eight pumpkins over a course of two weeks cause he loved watching us carve them. Yeah, I said it. Watching. He didn't want to help just really loved the after effect of turning off all the lights and watching them glow. We ended up trick or treating at Grandma Chris' house and neighborhood. Zeke thought trick or treating was amazing however he didn't quite grasp the entire concept. He kept trying to put the candy from his pumpkin head back in people's bowls when they opened the door. He also thought he should check out the inside of basically every house we went to. It went a little something like this....ring the door bell. Nice person answers the door with bowl of candy. Zeke says "trick or treat" and runs in their house. OMG. embarrassing. "so sorry nice people giving my son candy....he just needs to check out the inside of your house". Do I run into their house after him? Or not? He was really cute though. And has been carrying around all his little SWAT things since. Happy Halloween!

big boy bed

So this is a little embarrassing to admit but I'm just going to throw it out there anyways. My 3 year old still sleeps in a crib. There is no good reason for it, except that with Mat and I's extreme conflicting schedules and both of our lack of good night sleep Zeke sleeping in his crib (aka baby jail) is extremely convenient. That's all. Oh and for the past year I have convinced myself that he really does LIKE his crib. SOOOOOOOOOO. That being said...Mat and I talked about it about a month ago and decided in fact it was probably way past time to get our toddler out of the crib. So tonight we changed his crib into a toddler bed. Which consisted of taking the front part off and putting a baby rail on. Not even an intense change. It's the same freaking bed just missing one side. That one side is a big deal. SERIOUSLY. HUGE. DEAL. I can happily say though that after 8 times getting out of bed. 2 potty trips. 10 times saying good night to daddy and 2 hours later...my small child has finally fallen asleep for the first time in his big boy bed. Now it's the morning that will be the next fun adventure!

adventures in potty training.

I'm not gonna lie. I hate potty training. It was seriously easier to house break my dogs then potty training my kid is going to be. AND. Honestly....we haven't even spent one full day in undies. Forget pull ups. Zeke uses them like diapers. I think if Zeke doesn't attend his first day of kindergarten in diapers then my entire parenting career will be successful. Zeke has developed one of two routines regarding the potty training issue. The first super fun one is that he only wants to go potty when we want him to be going to bed. So, like it's nap time. K: "ok Zeke it's nap time turn off TV and let's lay down for a little bit" z: "potty. potty. potty. mamamamama. pottttttttttttty." k: " fine. let's go." 20 minutes later. still sitting in the bathroom. there's nothing. and now we battle nap time again. Bedtime routine is almost the same but played out with Dad instead of Mom. The other super fun thing is dragging him kicking and screaming into the bathroom cause I can tell he needs to go. This obviously is even more fun the first adventure. It basically ends up with pee on the floor, the wall, zeke, me and anything else remotely close...except the toilet. Today when i tried to put underwear on him he took of screaming down the hall naked that he was "no underwear today!" oh well.....there is alway's tomorrow. and maybe preschool.

Daddy

We had a fire here directly behind our house on Thursday. I'm uploading some pictures still and I will post them as soon as they are done. The firefighters were on our street for two days after that and Zeke was fascinated. I love this picture.