Tagged...

We were tagged by Brooke. Here are the rules:
*open the fourth picture folder on your computer
*post the fourth picture in that folder
*explain the picture
*tag four more people.


So this is the picture that I have. This is our sweet Austin Kate. I have a folder on my computer labeled "The Browns" which holds all the pictures of the Brown family. This is AK from a couple years ago. So, this picture is pretty random...
Thanks for the fun game, Brooke!

I am tagging Jaime, Shannon C., Melody, and Shannon S. (S.S. I chose you because you are the picture queen)

Zeke's at Yaya's

Zeke and I have escaped to Yaya's (my mom's) for a couple nights to break up our week with out daddy. We have not even been here 24 hours and we have had a bunch of fun! Zeke's cousins Maddie and Sophia are here hanging out today. Zeke has gotten to do a couple of new things already while here including sitting in a high chair and sitting in a bath chair. Daddy, we hope you enjoy these pictures...

Zeke sitting in the high chair

Zeke's messy face after eating

Doesn't he look so big (and this chair conveniently covers his boy parts)
Ok, so this one he looks a little like that creepy guy hanging out in the hot tub...

Zeke's cousin Sophia doesn't like pacifiers, but anything Zeke touches, she thinks she needs to have. Here she had found his paci and was loving it!

Look how happy she is with it.

All she did was chew on it.

Triumphant child

Zeke's nana bought him this cute shirt.

This statement could not be closer to the truth...

single parenting is for the birds

I definitely am not meant to do this on my own. Spence is out of town until Thursday night. Zeke and I are making it. We wanted to show Daddy that we were doing alright, so here are some pictures.

Zeke loves kisses from mommy

Zeke loves his daddy and misses him.

Look at that handsome outfit.

Check out those chubby cheeks!

not a great picture with mommy

4 months

Zeke turned four months on Monday! If you are thinking, wow this chic is a bit behind, I have a good reason. I wanted to wait to share Zeke's stats after his dr. appointment, which was today.
Zeke is 17.5 lbs which puts him in the 90% and 25.5 in which puts him in the 75%. So, I have myself a healthy boy! This week has been busy but fun...

Monday, Zeke fell asleep at the office while playing with Amber.

Zeke talked to daddy and mommy while pushing up on his boppy.

Zeke has learned to wiggle. He can turn himself around on this, especially after he gets to where he can push off with his foot on the rail thing of his play gym.

Today Zeke got to try his first taste of real food. YUM! Organic, brown rice cereal. Delish! He really did not do too badly as you can see from the video at the bottom. We are hoping this will turn into eating more cereal and sleeping more at night!

The cereal

Zeke and his cereal

Checking out the bowl

First bite!

church funness (is that a word?)

I had to show some cute pictures of some of nursery babies.

Luke fell asleep while being strolled during church.

how sweet is this?

This is our worship pastor's son, Hudson. Check out his snarl.

Not sure why Hudson decided to wear an offering bucket...

Hudson L-O-V-E-S balls! This is definitely his favorite toy at church.

Shamgar

Shamgar is our 1 year old chocolate lab. He turned 1 December 1. We will have had him for a year January 12. Shamgar was our Christmas present from my parents last year. I had always said that we would get a house, then a dog, then have a baby. Little did I know that it would all happen in a 9 month period... Shamgar's name is from the Old Testament. In Judges 3:31 "After Ehud, came Shamgar, would slaid 600 Philistines with an ox goad." Spence says that Shamgar was obviously more manly than even Samson because he only needed one verse and Samson needed chapters. Thankfully Spence decided that a dog could be named this instead of our first child...
So, here is to Shamgar. Happy birthday (a little late), buddy!

Sweet innocent (this didn't last long)

4 months old

8 months old

1 year old, wrestling with Spence

The other dog is my parents 6 year old lab, Gabe.

Shamgar is on the right here, I can't believe that he is bigger than Gabe now!

Zeke this week

Zeke's bathtub had to be changed over to the older baby settings. He is way too long to lay in the hammock thing now. He enjoyed sitting up and having the water poured all over him. He definitely tried to drink the water if I poured it close to his face. Oh and this bath was a necessary bath after he had an explosion up to his SHOULDERS! (It was super fun to hear Spence from upstairs calling me "ummm, we're gonna need some help up here")

sitting up in his tub


So, I am not sure if Spence just didn't know if the picture was being taken, or if he was loving being a dad at the moment (remember the diaper changing experience from earlier), but Zeke looked pretty happy with life.

This is post bath, getting nice and warm