Golden Pig Tales

My dear, sweet baby boy turned 4 yesterday. He will always be me my baby boy.
I love you, Ezra!
Mom

Ezra is with Grand Parents for a few days before birthday. While it is nice to have a couple nights alone with -v-, it feels a bit awkward without Ezra. And it feels weird not reading books to him at night. It feels too quiet and calm.

For 6 dollars of his own money, Ezra bought a metal slinky from the store around the time he bought the kicking stand. And tonight the slinky has been put in the trash for it is no longer a slinky. It was a working slinky four about five months. After it had been stretched out a bit, the slinky actually walked down stairs. It has been a tunnel, a periscope, a rope, a slide for cars, a tether between stuffed animals, a tail, a trunk. Now it is more like a four dimensional shape of knots that never unknot just get worse as we try to untangle the mess of a slinky. Now even Ezra agrees it is too twisted in knots even for his imagination or his safety.

I got Ezra a baseball mitt yesterday, and he likes it a lot. Today, ezra and I went to the store to try and find one for dad, as part of his fathers day present. we didn’t have much luck though, because dad is a lefty. All the gloves we found were for right handed players. Ezra was sad. But I told him we would find one for dad sometime soon, and that maybe dad could be the designated hitter. I am more than happy to encourage ezra’s interest in baseball, so if we have to go all over town to find kalab a mt, so we can all play together, then so be it.

He is a growing boy, but he is not yet as big as a pteranadon. We had fun at the dino exhibit at the zoo yesterday. Although I think ezra and kalab basically ran through the whole thing.

Ezra and his school-mates preformed a special mothers day pagent on Friday. It was the cutest thing ever. The kids all dressed up like little animals to perform Anansi and the moss covered rock. Then they sang a song, did a dance and then finished with a special song about mamita de mi corazon. Did I mention this was the cutest thing ever?? Wish kalab could have been there

Ezra wanted to show mom for Mother’s Day how much he needed mom by insisting she be the one to help him brush teeth, wipe butt, pick-out cloths, take a bath, buckle him into his car seat, help with his pizza, help with his socks, read a book, help him on to the tire swing, help be happy when sad, get him some juice and be a playmate like she does every day.

While it is great that Ezra loves his Tag Leap Frog reading pen that allows him to begin to interact with books by himself, I am becoming a bit jealous of the pen for he is beginning to want to use it instead of me to read books before he goes to bed. Fortunately, not all his books work with the pen, and he is more than willing to let me read him a book other times during the day.

While playing a new game Ezra created that required tackling (because many games created by Ezra involve tackling) and running into a goal, Ezra told me I need to make a mean face like him. His mean face is pretty mean. He even huffs and shakes his head like an angry wrestler. So, I clench my teeth and narrowed my eyes and peered while growling. He said, ,,You need a better mean face,” as he broke my tackle and ran across the goal line.

It didn’t take long for Ezra to realize the box is just a little to small for him and not as comfortable as his bed as he is now sleeping in his bed.

Yes, daylight savings time has returned! I was trying to explain this to Ezra last night and this morning. He perceives that the sun is out longer. It was hard convincing him about losing an hour of sleep and why we missed the dinosaur train this morning. Just like a real train, if you aren’t at the station on time, the train will leave you behind (at pteranadon station).

I realized again today how nice it is Ezra no longer addicted to the binky. And then I realized he hasn’t licked his lips for months.

Few things are bertter than having Ezra climb-up and over bed between me and -v- and ask if one us could go play with him downstairs unless it is three in morning on a work day.

I took Ezra ice skating today! I think it has easily been more than 10 years since I was last ice skating, maybe even more? It was fun! I wish I could have taken pictures but I had my hands pretty full between holding his hand and holding the wall…I think his favorite part of the experience was….the zamboni!

We went out and got our christmas tree today! The weather outside was a little dry, so we were able to bring the tree right on in the house. We got it decorated and everything.