Here are a few pictures taken in the last few weeks. Jed is a very good baby. He has been to church twice now, and loves his big brother Zeke! Zeke is also loving being a big brother. He loves to hold Jed and it does not bother him if while holding Jed, Jed starts to cry. I will tell him to tell me when he is done, and he asks me for the pacifier and continues to snuggle Jed saying, "I know" and puts the pacifier in Jed's mouth. He also always wants him awake. We are trying to teach him that we want him to sleep :)


Sweet picture of Jed during his bath one night. He goes back and forth on enjoying his baths.


Silly picture of Zeke!


The boys with Papa & Gigi, before they went home. We really miss having them around!


The Smith Family of four!

Jedidiah Brady Smith

Jedidiah Brady is here! He was born July 2nd at 12:56 am, weighing 6 lbs 13 oz and 20 inches long. It is quiet a story, but he got here safe and sound!


Looking at the blessing of another sweet boy to our family.


Big brother Zeke holding Jed at the hospital.


Sweet Jed all bundled up!

Zeke's Birthday Party

Zeke turned 4! I can't believe he is already 4. A few weeks ago we did have a birthday party for Zeke with some of his friends. We had it at a friends house so that we would not have to do a whole lot since at the time of the party I was 3 weeks away from d-day. We set up a jumpy, had a pinata, snacks and no party would be complete without cake & ice cream. Zeke picked the cake and of course picked chocolate, and wanted chocolate ice cream. We went for ice cream with chocolate syrup in case all chocolate was too much for most. Here are some pictures of the boy, enjoy!


Waiting on the swing with Papa & Gigi.


Enjoying his chocolate cake and ice cream!


Out after a very fun and very busy day!

Baby brother still is not here. We ask Zeke off and on if he is going to come see mom & baby brother at the hospital and here are some of the answers we get, "I think I will be too tired" "I might be watching a movie" and the newest that he told my family this week "Mommy told me no no, I can't go see them." One day he was warming up to the idea and told me he might come if I told all the doctors to hide when he came. I explained the doctors are not there for him, they are there to make sure mommy & baby brother are ok. He said, "No, you tell them all to hide." We will see what happens when the time comes. But it is funny to talk to him about it to see what he will come up with next.

Cowboy Zeke

Sally the horse, Debbie & Zeke


Zeke sitting on Sally like a real cowboy!

This last Saturday we were invited by Debbie, a friend at church, to come out to the ranch where she keeps her horse. Zeke was so excited about going to see a horse. He talked about sitting on the horse and wearing his cowboy outfit of course. When we first got there he was a little unsure of Sally the horse. Debbie took Sally out and had her exercise and run around. It was amazing to watch Debbie in the coral with Sally. She would make her change directions, run faster or stop without ever raising her voice. Sometimes it was just a movement Debbie made or a sound with her mouth. Zeke did finally get on Sally but was not ok with Sally walking with him up there. Which was fine we were excited he even sat on her!

Busy

Sorry we have not posted in a while. We have been very busy. We spent Christmas with my family in Fresno. Both sisters and their families were there and on Christmas day the rest of my moms side all came over for the big meal. We had a lot of fun hanging out with family.

It has not slowed down sine being home either. We found out back in November that we are expecting Baby Number 2, should be arriving around July 9th. Zeke seems to be very excited about having a baby brother or sister. He often just starts talking about what he and the baby will do. One thing he is concerned about is that we will have a bed for the baby. So he will be very happy when we start putting the room together.

We have also been potty training Zeke. And so far he is doing great. He wears his undies all day and is only in pull ups during naps and night time.

Here are a few pictures from the last month or so. Hope you enjoy!


Helping make his dinner one night with his apron and chefs hat. He made the hat at preschool that day and loved it!


Building with Daddy using his new Handy Manny Tool Bench from Santa.


Doing art with Gigi over Christmas. The older kids made ornaments, gingerbread houses while there.

Preschool Christmas Party

Today we had a Christmas Party at Preschool. The kids started off with a Book Exchange, then headed upstairs where a special someone came by to visit.



Zeke is more into the whole Santa idea, but was still not ok with going to sit in his lap. So he ask his teacher if she would take a picture with him. One of Zeke's big things to do to draw attention away from him is to show the person something else. So as soon as he got up there he had to show Santa his shirt.



Zeke got Zurg! (He is from Toy Story 2 and that is what he asked Santa for this year) After opening his gift he did yell "Thank You Santa" from our seat.



Zeke back at preschool enjoying pizza, fruit, juice and cookies.

Here is Zeke all dressed up and ready for our Treat in a Trunk at church. He loved wearing it, he was flying all over the place. At his preschool party he wanted Brice to help him fly, so Brice would pick him up and Zeke would put his arms out. We had a fun night with friends at church. He even went to Pizza as Buzz Lightyear.



After going to the Farm to get our Pumpkins this year, Zeke decided we needed to turn our pumpkins into pumpkin pie. So we went to the store bought the right pumpkin and came home and made it. It was really good and pretty easy! The above picture is Zeke getting ready to take his first bite. It had just come out of the oven not long before!



I just thought this one was cute. One day he wanted to dress up in his cowboy clothes, complete with bandana, and badge!