Ezra and His Colors

Ezra's favorite color is green. He often asks to wear green, as you can see from the outfit in the above photo.

He can now usually identify pink, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, white and gray. He loves to point out colors, especially when drawing or folding laundry or playing Duplos, etc. But even if we're not actively doing something with colors, his little voice often pipes up with random colors as he sees a yellow truck when we're driving or a green tree on a walk. Seth and I joke that we never realized the world was so colorful until Ezra started telling us about it. (The same holds true for animal sounds and well, increasingly all objects. Ezra can't seem to help himself from pointing everything out and telling us what it is. He's a chatterbox.)

Sophomore Year of High School

My friend Ali recently found a copy of this photo and posted it to Facebook. It's hard to determine the specific date of this photo, but it was taken sophomore year of high school; probably fall 2001.

After looking at the photo on FB, Seth and I pulled out our yearbooks and went through them, reminiscing and counting up what students went to Covenant what year. Sophomore year there were 28 students!

As always when we talk about high school, we had to laugh about the fact that neither of us really remember each other in high school, but there we are: in the same high school class, 10+ years ago.

Jenny A, Jacob A, Duncan B, Ali C, Taylor C, Autumn D, Diane F, Amber F, Heather G, Ali G, Michael G (not pictured), Kelly H (not pictured), Heather H, Nick H, Hilary J, Brian J, Charissa L (rejoined spring semester; not pictured), Matthew L (joined spring semester; not pictured), Sarah P, Seth P, Darcee P, Rachel R, Elena S, Kathryn S, Erin S, David S, Caleb W

Drew and Dar

Ezra has come to love Drew and "Dar" (Darya). We walk from my parents' house over to the elementary school and pick them up and do piano lessons at my parents' house on Wednesday.

Drew was actually the first non-family-member name Ezra said and sometimes when we're standing in line for communion at church Ezra loudly points out Drew in the congregation.

Sometimes Ezra gets to watch "a show" so that he's not distracting during lessons, and last week Drew watched Veggie Tales with him.

Christmas Trees!

We went shopping for Christmas trees after church yesterday, on the first day of advent. Most years we've all gone the day after Thanksgiving, but there was an extra week in between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year, so...

Ezra of course always loves spending time with his grandparents and aunts and uncles, but throw in "trees" and "tractors" and he was supremely happy.

Holding all three aunt's hands.

Ezra and Daddy

Checking out tractors.

The whole family.

Tree decorating food.

Examining the lights.

Making animal sounds with Em.

I went back and found photos from last year's tree search and just had to compare the difference one year makes: 7 months vs. 19 months.