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“Cheese!”

Or, my 2 boys poop a lot.

I got my camera back from being repaired and presto! pictures

Porter’s birth

Getting weighed

Keeping warm with Dad

Napping

And, a video of Ezra dancing with Francis:

I’m having trouble downloading pictures from my camera to my computer, which is pretty awful because not only are some of Porter’s first pictures on my camera but I also have a video of a naked Ezra grooving to U2’s “Get on Your Boots.”

Thankfully my Dad took some pictures at our Easter celebration which you can view here.

Ezra collecting a number of other things besides plastic eggs

And, I’ll add, this was after a few mouth-wipes.

(More pictures here.)

I was supposed to meet a good friend from Pasadena at the Wild Animal Park, but child sickness on her end meant we’re going to have to reschedule. Without much of a plan for the day, I started checking out other options and came across Bates Nut Farm that has a huge pumpkin patch in North San Diego County.

Bryce, Ezra and I had a great time exploring the pumpkin patch and taking loads of pictures. Ezra was especially proud of his newly acquired walking skills and liked to play the drums on all the huge pumpkins. We came home with a 76-pound pumpkin to adorn our doorstep. It should last about 3 months as we don’t plan to carve it.

I was at the hospital having pitocin-induced contractions and could only make it through them standing up. At 6:20 pm Ezra Chalmers Hales came into the world via c-section. Happy first birthday son! It’s all been worth it.

For fun. Feel free to consider yourself tagged if you’d like to do it.

1. Ashley (”Ashley’s eye”) 2. hot dog 3. 1999 4. blue 5. None 6. Cabernet 7. New Zealand 8. Sticky toffee pudding 9. a court judge 10. husband and son 11. conflicted (”The math of conflict”) 12. 5 solas

Here are the rules:
Here’s how it works:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker. Choose 3 columns with 4 rows.

The Questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to? (or, What year did you graduate high school?)
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name. (kid version: favorite animal?)

Ezra turns one on the 29th, but we had his party on Saturday.

My dad was the resident photographer, so check out other pictures here.