What a glorious way to celebrate our Nation's Birthday...with Ezralee in our arms!
Doug's parents are serving a mission in western Washington (Everett, Washington Mission) and were given permission to come over for Ezralee's baby blessing. So fun to see them with their name tags on and to feel the Spirit radiate from them.
The next day we enjoyed being on Coeur d'Alene Lake. Boys LOVED tubing behind the boat.
Even Colt was super brave and wanted to ride all by himself. We let him...he's only 4...and after about 5 seconds he nose dived off the raft because he was too light. Doug immediately swan dived in after him. Colt was a bit startled from the tube going over his head and going head first into the cold water, but his positive, couragious spirit didn't fear. Doug helped him stay happy and by the time he was back on the boat he celebrated his 5 seconds by saying, "Mom, did you see me? I stayed on for 5 whole seconds!!!" I celebrated his bravery and that his life jacket worked well. Also, my love for Doug grew as I saw him leap to the rescue our son...it was pretty hot.
View from the beach.
How I spend many moments. Also, I should interject here that breastfeeding was a nightmare from the first latch. Usually it's not painful until day 3 when my milk comes in. After a week of cracking open, bleeding, tearing off scabs, screams, prayers, and completely dreading feeding time, we resorted to pumping to give some time to heal. We met with a wonderful lactation consultant who identified Ezralee's tongue and lip tie. A week later she had the procedure done by an ENT and nursing became endurable. THANK GOODNESS! (and I should report that about 3 weeks it was decent and now I'm writing this and we are at 6 weeks and it's great!)
We enjoyed a family game of kickball at a park by our house.
Aunt Corrie enjoyed some snuggles with Ezralee.
Then ended the night with a little chess with Uncle Blake.
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