March Around the Corner

Ephraim is VERY excited that his birthday is coming up quickly. How did he get so big and handsome?

 

Ephraim is 43" and 36 lbs.
He loves cats and acting like them. He says his favorite color is black (he likes dressing all in black to be a black cat).
He lost his first tooth and the adult one came in quickly. He has a second loose tooth now.
He is in Montessori preschool, but doing kindergarten books. He happily reads easy books ("Ten Apples Up on Top" and "I Can Read with my Eyes Shut") and does easy math (5 + 5).
He wakes up happy almost every morning and actively seeks to find what is funny in the world ("get the PUNCHline?"). He likes to act out scenes with his stuffed animals (which all have names) and hear and tell stories at night. He can be an adorable chatterbox. He spent 10 minutes talking nonstop the other night about a complex story: something about portals and long tubes that took you to different worlds, one world was in a giant eyeball and bats lived there. If there is a creature near (tiny bug to stranger's big dog), he is interested in it and will be kind and concerned

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Bye Bye February

Wait, February is over already? Where did it go? Here's an update with pictures:

Snuggling with mom in the morning before work.

Snuggling with the cat at bedtime.

It was raining one Sunday and Gabriel had too much energy. I got some great shots of him (I'll try to get the movie here too).

On February 12, I drove Gabriel and some of his classmates to their field trip to the Guide Dogs for the Blind training facility. We didn't get to touch any of the puppies though.

Gabriel cut out tiny pieces of construction paper to make this Link from Zelda scene.

Ephraim worked on something similar,

I received a bouquet of flowers for Valentine's Day from my valentine (a wonderful man I'm dating).

 Swinging at the park.

 "OK, bye, Mom." (getting dropped off at Heather's house)

The cats decided to trust him again and Gabriel couldn't be happier.

Yes, our lemon tree is full! These two milk crates are less than HALF of the lemons from the tree. I'm squeezing them and freezing the juice.

The belt on my treadmill was slipping. After Grandpa fixed it for me, the boys had to try it out to make sure it worked.