Weekend Fun

This past weekend we headed to the beach with some friends of ours We all had a great time relaxing in the sun for 2 1/2 days. Zeke had a blast playing in the sand with his new Spiderman sand bucket (which we some how failed to get any pictures of) and playing in the pool, which you get to see in this little video clip. Kaiyah had a great time as well. More pictures to come on the family blog!

Birthday gift ideas for Zeke and other cute stories!

So, the other day Tami took the kids out to play in our apartment play area and there was a teenage kid riding a scooter around that looked like this:

Zeke watched the kid for awhile and then solomnly informed Tami that "Someday I want one of those at my house!" Tami chuckled and said "Don't count on it Buddy" to which Zeke responded, "I DO count on it, I want that for my birthday!" So, in case anyone is at a loss of what to get him for his 3rd birthday, there you go! Ha!

Other cute stories about Zeke: recently he has been getting into creative play, and it's amusing to see how the world we live in influences his play. For instance, he builds aquaducts and old walls with his blocks, he delivers water on his bike just like the "water man", and he pushes groceries around in Kaiyah's grocery cart, pretending to deliver them to people, because we frequently order our groceries online and have them delievered to our house.

Not to be overshadowed, Kaiyah is doing some pretty cute things, too. A few days ago she saw Zeke and some other kids playing duck-duck-goose, so yesterday she started coming up to us and tapping us on the shoulder and saying "Duk, duk" and then running off looking back to see if we were chasing her! Today she has discovered the art of walking backwards, so all day long she's been walking backwards everywhere, just as proud as she can be! Also, for a few days now, she's been walking around with her quilt over her head and she keeps running into stuff. It's pretty funny to watch, too.

They are fun kids!

Blue Eyed Kids...

It may be up for debate who our kids look like, but there is no doubt where they get their gorgeous blue eyes!

And on a side note, our baby won't be a baby much longer . . .

The kids being kids . . .

Zeke and Kaiyah love to go outside and play on our playground. It is fun watching them interact and play together now that Kaiyah is old enough to participate. They love going down the slide together . . .

most of the time . . .

There is plenty of grass to be seen here, but not much to be touched. Usually there is a "keep off the grass" policy. However, our apartment complex recently put in a small plot of grass around the playground area just for the little kids to be able to play in. Zeke refers to it as "my grass" and makes a point to walk in it whenever we go out to play!