The Allisons

Ezra is 1 month old! There's not too much to report. The picture on the right is Ezra and I in a patch of violets in the back yard. The daffodil pictures are in my neighbor's yard. I also wanted to point out his cute sweater outfit. It's wool, and I accidentally dried it, so this was probably both the first and the last time he'll be able to wear it. Oops. The beautiful Tulip Tree is in my friend Andrea's yard. (Sorry Andrea--we had to trespass to get the picture. :) Isn't your tree gorgeous!) The Mickey out fit picture is for Nana.
Sleeping stretches at night are getting longer (even if they don't start until later...). He's really good at holding his head up and does so much of the time when I'm walking around and he's on my shoulder. He will even hold it up if we have him in a sitting position. We laugh, because it's really wobbly. Mike says it looks like he should have a soundtrack because it's as if his head is bobbing along to the beat of a song that no one can hear but him. Don't worry, we have a good bit of it on video so you too can laugh at him when you see it.

A couple of nights ago we have our first undisputed encounter with gypsies. The past couple of months some of the gas coupons we keep in our glove box had gone missing. (We buy gas coupons at a discounted price to offset the high cost of gas in Europe--it's still a little higher than the cost of gas in the States.) The first time, Mike and I blamed each other for misplacing them, or we thought that we had simply forgotten that we used them all. The second time it happened, it was a whole pack ($60) and we were both convinced they had been stolen out of our car. We keep them in the house now. Monday morning when Mike went to leave for work, our car door was open, the glove box was open, and a pack of gum that we had left in the car was completely eaten and laying on the seat. Annoying huh?

Well, I guess that's all the exciting stuff that's happened to us in the last week. :)