10 months

Zeke is 10 months today!!! I can't believe that in two months we will be celebrating his first birthday. He is now army crawling all over the place, nothing is safe in our house. He says mama, dada, and hey. He is clapping and waving. He loves music and appreciates my singing :-) He is making the "k" and "g" sound recently. He shakes while he is eating and I say "mmmmm". He will also pretend to eat and make an eating sound if he wants another bite. He is also, as I have said recently, sleeping really well lately. This has been huge because I was so worried about the fact that he wasn't sleeping and we are expecting another soon. I really wanted to have a least a handful of nights, and now I have a couple of months. We are so excited about each stage. We are having so much fun with him right now and feel so absolutely blessed to have him. We are loving his personality coming out and enjoying getting to know him.

Sierra came and hung out with Zeke today.

Zeke getting into everything

Polly want a cracker?

Zeke does! I bought some graham crackers (and marshmellows and chocolate bars) because I have been dying for s'mores! I don't think Z is quite ready for a s'more, but I thought I could share a cracker with him. This is his new favorite snack. He loves being able to feed it to himself and he does a really good job taking bites off of it.

First taste

YUM!

Of course, dad had to have a snack too

Yes, those are my boys- eating and watching tv

Hurry home, Daddy!

Zeke waits for his dad to get home many days. He watches out the window and when he sees the car pull in, he starts bouncing and squealing. Spence's face is always pretty awesome when he sees that Zeke is waiting for him. He runs over to the window and waves and talks, then comes rushing inside to his boy.

taking a break for a quick smile

hmmm... do you think he is coming sooner or later?

Good night, sweetheart

Zeke has become a GREAT sleeper lately. Not only does he sleep through most nights (7pm-7am), but he is taking two great naps at about 1.5 hours each. At the risk of waking him, I had to snap these sweet pictures.

Snaps watches over him while he sleeps

Not sure that is where that goes, Zeke...

New trick

We have been trying to get Zeke to clap for a while now. I think that because we also work with him on sign language, he may have been confused with clapping and the more sign. He now has totally gotten clapping down. It cracks me up that he claps the most when he is eating. It is like he is cheering himself on to eat.

Happy Birthday Aunt Michelle

Going home

We went to Whitsett/McLeansville for the weekend for Matt and Tori's wedding. We got to have some fun times while there. Zeke enjoys getting to see his grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. And of course there were some super fun photo ops.
While there Spence got to preach at his parents' church. He did an AMAZING job. It was so great to see God's hand on him while he was seriously BRINGING it. I am so proud of my hubby and of how he so clearly sees God's plan for him. It is really cool to watch and be a part of such an evidence of God through out lives by going to where I first really encountered the Lord to come full circle to Spence preaching. (We also took advantage of being dressed nicely for a good family pic)

Look at that face!!

Family pic after church

"Crawling" at Yaya's

Looking at the kitties at Yaya's