The Usual

He has found his belly button! As you've seen, he found his nipples ages ago. Sorry about not posting this week, it's been midterms so I have been kept quite busy. I am happy to report a 48 out of 50 in one class and a perfect 100% score in another! I haven't heard about the math midterm yet, and the beastly history of Chinese Art midterm is this Tuesday. So I'm not quite in the clear just yet.

It's Saturday so school is not the topic to be discussing. It is a balmy 50 degrees here in Portland, and it's not raining, so I might go so far as to say it's a lovely day. This past week it was raining horizontally, so by comparison it is fantastic weather. Ezra is taking a little nappy poo after going bonkers at the park this morning kicking the soccer ball. He was also quite absorbed rearranging the pine cones...

Last night we went to the local community center (I love community centers!) to watch the movie Up. It was the first time Ezra had been to see a movie, and I didn't know how long he'd last. We ended up getting through about a third of the movie before he sprang up and bolted to the gym (where there were 20 or so little kid cars, motorcycles, wagons, and balls tempting him). Not too bad. I did like what I saw of the film in the beginning, although we popped our heads in at the end to see what was going on and we saw a man with a gun attempting to shoot a lovable boyscout. Does this seem extreme to anyone else? A GUN? In a children's film? Not only a gun, but a gun firing at people, notably a child?!

I think a poison apple might be more appropriate. Putting someone to sleep eternally is a lot easier to stomach than cold blooded murder with a huge gun. Am I overly sensitive? Is it perfectly acceptable for there to be a man shooting a gun at a child in a childrens movie? Ok, I will stop, but seriously it's disturbing.

Back to happy news, Ezra got a new hat! I like to sing a little
Chinese song when he puts it on and he does a little Chinese dance. It's cute.

I used to give Ezra a sticker when he successfully used the potty, but now he just peels them off from the Potty Chart Sticker Board and puts them on his face. So I probably won't give him any more. We've moved on to yogurt covered pretzels. It had been chocolate chip cookie rewards but then he would just burrow out all the chocolate chips and make a big crumby mess. Oh to be done with diapers...

He loves to nestle in between the cushion and the chair. Here he a Big Bird share an embrace.

My apologies that the following video is horizontal. I don't know what I was thinking. It's just a random rascally Ezra short.

Another short, I just liked his smile at the end. Oh and a little background, he had been putting the elephant to sleep in the book. Nigh nigh Elephant, slam goes the book cover.

I hope you are all having a good weekend, and I'll try to get some more shots to post sooner than later. Hopefully I'll have more perfect scores to report too!