Lil Deuce Coup

Zeke's Yaya and Pawpaw may be the coolest people ever. They took on those cute little cars and painted it for Zeke. Of course, they had to paint it perfect for a little Tarheel! He is still trying to figure out how to go forward. He has perfected zooming backwards, and also loves standing up inside it.

pulling up to stand inside his car

Check out that grin

Flashes of a 16 year old are running through my head

He totally posed for this one

PMC & Summit En Espanol

WARNING: This is not a post about something cute that Zeke has done. It also does not include any pictures, for those of you who venture here for only those, sorry.

Saturday August 15 was a HUGE day in the life of our church. We launched two campuses. It was amazing! I didn't get to go into either of the worship services but I did get to meet some cute kids and cool families. There were over 60 kiddos in Summit Kids. It was so awesome! I can't wait to see what God is going to do through this campus. Please be in prayer for Charlie Dunn PM campus pastor and Raudel Hernandez Summit En Espanol campus pastor. Also, you should totally check out these campuses. Especially if you are looking for somewhere to serve, contact Keva Atwood for working with our amazing kids ministry.

Family of 3 through the year

I thought it would be fun to recap Zeke's first year with pictures of our family of 3 since we will be a family of 4 soon.

In the hospital

First Portrait Innovations photo shoot- October

Halloween

November

Christmas pic at Portrait Innovations

Christmas Day (look how chubby his face is!!)

Valentine's day (First pic with Benjamin included although we didn't know yet)

After Spence preached in May

Beach in June

June

August 8, 2009

He didn't care about the camera, he was into the cake

Trying to get a good picture

You can kinda see that I have a big belly, but not really (sorry Amber, I'll take another soon)

Zeke's 1 year stats

We went to the dr. for his one year check up. Leslie came with us because Spence couldn't and I had a dr appt afterwards. Normally I wouldn't have needed someone, but with him getting shots and my appointment I knew I needed reinforcements. So here are his stats and then I thought I would share the fun things he is doing now.

Length: 25% (29 inches)
Weight: 50% (22 lbs and 13 oz)
Head: 75%

Yeah, we gotta short, bigheaded kid :-)

Here are some of the things he is doing now:
*says dada all the time! (very seldom does he say mama any more, tear)
*says go, ba (ball), hey, hey where you going (yeah I know it probably isn't that, but it totally sounds like it)
*climbs everything!!
*signs more and all done (sporadically, but uses all done frequently)
*throws food if he doesn't want it (lovely, huh)
*lays his head on our shoulder and snuggles to get out of being put down for naps or bed
*has begun acting shy/has a little seperation anxiety
*can walk holding onto one hand
*loves to climb into his green chair and hold a ball or read a book
*throws and kicks balls
*talks to himself in his crib before going to sleep
*has begun pouting/whining to try to get his way
*knows the word "no" (as in no biting, and will stop and grin at me when I say it)
*follows some commands such as come here
*can point to lots of objects- light, fan, ball, balloon, book, mama, dada, etc
*loves turning off and on the lights
*totally on cow's milk
*7 teeth and cutting more if his drool is any indication
*no bottles
*very little baby food
*blueberries are probably his favorite food, but he pretty much eats anything we give him
*he likes when we give him drink from our straws
*I think he may recognize Chick-fil-a (he gets excited when he sees my cup from there)
*still sleeps 12 hours most nights (except for waking up once a night crying for some reason...) and take 2 naps a day
*LOVES being outside (which means we have to get out early in this heat)

Happy Birthday Nana!

Bday videos

Singing Happy Birthday

Zeke digging around for sprinkles

Zeke enjoying the cake

Bday Recap

Here is a recap of our day through pictures. I will be posting videos in posts in the next couple days...

Zeke napped just before the party. He actually fell asleep sitting up, but had fallen over by the time I got the camera. We had to wake him up from his nap for the party.

Waking him up to a house full of people didn't go too smoothly...

He didn't rip into any of his gifts, I guess his dad will have to teach him that another time...

His favorite gift was a book of course...

He loved the ribbons and bows on the gifts

Finally a smile!

The birthday cake

Some of the decorations

Yes, we made him wear this hat, no he didn't hate it.

Zeke very carefully touched the icing to begin with...

It was love at first taste though

If you look closely, you can see that he is eating the big sprinkles

He searched the cake over for the sprinkles, and cleared the entire side of the cake of all of them.

He then tried to pick the cake up for a bite. His dad helped him with that

He learned that he didn't need to pick the cake up to get a bite.

He has a beard out of cake and icing

Pondering if this is what heaven must be like...

He ate it all!

HA! Just kidding, but he did eat a lot...

This is the damage he did to the cake. He let us know when he was finished by signing his version of all done. We were able to clean him up fairly quickly.

We returned to opening gifts and he became more interested in the toys he was recieving. We opened a couple and he really liked testing the toys out. All in all, I think he had a pretty great day. I know that I have spent the day thinking back about where I was and what I was doing. It's been a difficult, but wonderful year. I am really looking forward to the next and all that is in store.