Ezra, Family night, tuckered out, and Naters

I haven't been very good about pictures lately. But I downloaded some from my email and off my phone today and wanted to share. I feel bad I never gave a shout out to my new nephew Ezra. He was born On the 9th of February to my older sister Amy. He is their 5th and we can't wait to meet him. (Maybe over spring break?!?) ;) Ezra Kreed Anderson was 7 lbs 10 oz and 19 3/4" long.

Proud big sister

The kids

Ezra

Friday night we had a family night out. We took the boys to Peter Piper Pizza to have some fun together. The boys loved it, I got a picture of each of the boys with my phone, but I didn't notice Travis' turned out fuzzy, so I put in a pic from the other day when he decided underwear made a nice hat.


Nathan is quite the busy body. Today we had a really fun time playing outside. I pulled weeds for 3 hours while the boys drew on the block wall with chalk, played in the dirt, climbed on the dog kennel, and hung out eating snacks while I tried to finish one section before lunch time. I wore them out a little too much and unfortunately the big boys didn't want to take naps...so at dinner...



they were a little sleepy. I had to wake them up because 6pm was just too early to try to put them in bed. They were so grouchy. I gave them baths while they screamed and cried at me and put them in bed by 7pm. So then I got to hang out with this adorable trouble maker and had a lot of laughs playing catch, driving cars, sharing chocolate, reading books, playing with the remote, and wrestling while he belly laughed cause he was so tired. Thanks for the fun night Naters.

Things for me to remember about this time for Nathan:
He is growing SO FAST. He unloads the dishwasher (hands me every item and I put them where they go), he clears his plate (insisting on scraping it in the trash first like his brothers), he has to use silverware (if he doesn't have a fork, he waits to eat), he pushed away his chair with the booster seat and got himself a chair w/o a booster seat today (forget about using a highchair), he wants to get his own drinks (as seen in picture above), and he takes his medicine like it's candy (he even lays down nicely to get eye drops while I wrestle his older brothers to sit still). Nathan wants to be big, no other way to put it. He likes to climb in his brothers' bed and listen to books being read. He sat with me on the couch tonight and acted like he was comfy watching what I was watching, he had to hold the remote and point it at the tv as well. He usually likes to throw away his diapers, but sometimes he insists that I carry him to the trash (this is ALWAYS followed by a Hi-five! sometimes "pound-it" too) Nathan signs -more and -drink. I tried to teach him candy and cereal (cause HE LOVES THOSE!) and now he signs drink for everything. He has made up his own sign for lotion and he loves to wash his hands and play in the water.