Wowza

You know it's fall when it's been almost a month since a blog update!  My busy season at work, coupled with some work deadlines for S plus cold and flu season equals "Just keep swimming!" time for us!  Eliza caught a cold last week, which of course Ezra caught (possibly because they were kissing each other and sharing drinks, despite my protests!).  Ezra's cold turned into croup, which led to several nights falling asleep on the bathroom rug with the steamy shower helping him breathe, as well as a steroid shot.  He's still waking up 10+ times a night, but at least he isn't barking like a seal anymore.  Once Ezra was sick, Eliza felt it necessary to keep reiterating that she was sicker than Ezra.  It was like a weird competition.  After a week's worth of snuggling and much more PBS than normal, we're all back at work and school today.  Whew. 

In happier news, Ezra has developed his first party trick.  I noticed him standing on his tip toes the other day and he'll now do it very proudly on command.  He's also saying his first sentence, "What's that?" very often.  The other day in Target, he unscrewed the lid off the top of the coconut milk.  Thankfully it was still sealed underneath.  He does seem to be a man of few words, but he's very mechanical and very physical.  He's learned how to open some doors, and Eliza's latest obsession is making sure her door is closed at all times so he can't get into her stuff.  The battle will be on when he learns how to open her door. 

I was right about the quality of their sibling portraits.  Even after retakes, we ended up without a single picture of the two of them smiling at the same time.  At least their individual school pictures will be cute! 

Update

This morning Ezra walked into Eliza's room, pointed at her and said very clearly, "Sister!"  It was so cute.  He's making lots of animal noises now and lots of "vroom vroom" car noises.  He says and does the sign for light, but he also signs light when he looks up in the sky and sees an airplane.  Not sure what the connection is there, but he's very consistent with it. 

Eliza is such a teenager.  She's picking up funny little phrases like, "Okay, fine!" and "Why would you ever say that?"  All the boys at school seem to have a crush on her.  I'm not just biased; 4 of the 5 parents of boys in pre-k (plus one in the 3s class) have gone out of their way to tell me their son talks about Eliza constantly.  She told S last night that the boys all wanted her to chase them yesterday on the playground but "I just ignored them."  One of the dads (who is normally very quiet) even told me after co-oping in the pre-k class the other day that now he understands why his son talks about Eliza so much; that she really is that charming and charismatic. :)

They both took school pictures last week, as well as sibling portraits.  I'm not holding my breath on the sibling portraits.  Eliza has decided she doesn't want to show her teeth anymore when she smiles. :(