Working for the Weekend

Good morning all!

Still not too sure how I am going to format this blog yet. I guess I will get into the rythym as I write. I'm pretty sure most of my posts will be about Ezekiel since that is the main reason I have started this blog! Thought I would add some photos from the weekend.

I would have to say that next to Wednesdays, Fridays are my favourite day of the week. I love coming home from work and knowing we have the whole weekend together as a family. Sleeping in on Saturdays (ha...sleeping in when you have a child and you commute to work means 7 am for us), and actually eating breakfast that isn't a rice cake in the car as I'm driving. Staying up late together (really means cleaning the house while Sam plays on the computer and Zeke sleeps blissfully)...but at least we are together in the same house at the same time right? So much for my romantic notions of what the weekend is. I guess we really use it as a catch-all for everything we didn't do in the week!

So on that note..what did we do this weekend? Well, Sam had fun playing with the Nelson kids and Zeke while I went to a committee meeting at the church on Saturday morning. Still don't know how he got out of that one, but he convinced me to fill him in on the details later. Then he went to a men's event at the church eating nachos, and watching 'Courageous', while I made paper bow ties in preparation for a birthday party later that evening...then it was off to the party, then Sam was off to his friends till the wee hours of the morning. Not exactly the relaxing Saturday I had thought it would be. Zeke sure had fun playing with everyone and eating their food though. He has started this new thing where if he wants your attention he will either cock his head to the side and get real close to your face, or he will just adjust his little body so he can get his face right in front of your face. This usually means he wants your food, but he will do it in other situations just for attention. Once in a while he will even grab your face and turn it to look at him...but I have only seen him do that to me!

Sunday was a little more relaxing thankfully. We got a babysitter after church (which as a sidenote is really hard to do for me). Not the babysitter part because she is awesome, but I leave him all day during the week so getting a sitter on the weekend makes me feel guilty-something God is definitely working on in my life. We (Sam and myself) took a much needed date afternoon. Yummy Olive Garden for lunch, then getting our taxes done. I know you are thinking taxes are so romantic, but we didn't want Zeke there with us so we bundled our trip to Salem. Oh, and we bought Sam some much much much needed new jeans. Praise the Lord we found two pairs to satisfy his pickiness. Pants don't really come in his size and style combined (if anyone knows of a place that sells 33x34 Carpenter style jeans please let me know and I will update you to best friend status!). Then home to an evening playing with Zeke. Pictures below :)

Zeke showing you his bedroom.



His dirty diaper in the pail.



These are his clothes. He needs to pick out his jammies.



Zeke's curly hair. As soon as it is wet is tightens up in these little curls like mama.



Pinned him down!

Family picture :) New facebook profile picture for me!

Being silly with daddy :)



Bedtime routine: bath, bottle, and story.

We are almost done with the bottle for him. He almost never uses it anymore. 4 oz at bedtime and thats it. He wants to be a big boy and drink out of cups and sippy cups now...where has the time gone? I can't believe how big he is already.

Well, that was our weekend. Hope you all feel filled in and warm and fuzzy. Just kidding. I probably bored any readers to death, but its nice for me to keep it journaled. For when I am old and gray and want to look back on things :) Love you all.
-T