Brothers

Sometimes it's a fight over who gets to have the baby. Malachi calls him "MY baby brother" and Josiah just mumbles "I hold it..." for a moment we got them to share.

Alaskan Boy!

It's cool up here because Alaskans are very proud of the fact that they're Alaskans...and they should be, this is an amazing place. The crib card for Ezra (as you can see) says, I'm an Alaskan boy! and we're kinda proud of that, especially Abe. We've had a wonderful adventure and him being born here in Homer is a huge part of that.

Cheeks!

Josiah is now a cheek holder, kinda like Mal does the ears. He falls asleep with his hands holding both of my cheeks. He LOVES Ezras cheeks...he pokes them, holds them, kisses them. I think he's a smart little dude...he just has to gain a greater awarness of where the cheek ends and the eyeball begins.

He's got hair!

When I was delivering Ezra the midwife made a coment about him having hair. Abe and I both made stupid comments in response to the effect that our kids don't have hair when they're born....but here it is, Ezra's hair. It's not as much as Carter Beason....but we like to pet it.

This picture makes it look kinda red....maybe he's more Hickman than I first thought :)

(rewind some more) Josiah the super Potty Boy!

So, Josiah decided to start potty training himself. I'm not complaining....but it hasn't been easy and he's still troopin. This is just one of the several battle wounds he has gotten trying to do it by himself. I think there was a little bath water on the floor and he cracked his eye on the rim of the toilet.... didn't slow him down too bad. I haven't had to change a poopy diaper for quite a while (maybe one).

Rewind Just a Bit

Just before Ezra was born and stole the show Malachi caught his very own king salmon. It was the last night the river was open and Abe hooked it but Malachi played it for about 15 min holding the rod totally on his own. I think Abe was in charge of the realing...so it was a small team effort. Malachi was very vocal and had all the local fisherman chearing him on. The fish was longer than him but he out weighed it by about 10 pounds. GO MAL!!!!

Henderson Boys

I think Ezra has more Henderson features than Malachi and Josiah... espeically his ears. Oh! and he has brown hair.

Mommas Boys

Baby Ezra Lucas decided to catch the family off guard and arrive a little early. I wasn't even sure I was in labor and waited almost too long to go to the hospital. When I did decide we might need to go it was 4 in the am and we didn't have a baby sitter ready so we loaded up the whole fam and when I got there I was 8 cm and about an hour away from a family of 5. We're so glad he's here! He weighed 7 pounds 3 ounces and was 19 3/4 in long. It was definatly the easiest labor and so far the recovery is going well.

Midnight In Alaska

Didn't get much darker than this the night we tried to camp. Needless to say it didn't go so well... there wasn't much we could do to make the tent dark so the boys only slept from about midnight to 4am. I think we're going to bag camping....we were only 15 min from home.

Josiah's Fish....which ones bigger

THE FISH!!!

Abes Office

This is where Abe has to work everyday. He's feeling ok about the new office. He sees all kinds of critters, the mountains, the water....all in a days work.

Abes 2nd King- Anchor River

Abe's 2nd king, he caught the same night I caugh my big one. He has the most but I still have the biggest :)

Here you go Dad- Proof!

So this is the big one. Bigger than the ones Abe has caught. It weighed 29 pounds and was taller than Malachi. My fish was bigger than my kid :)

Sharing Spaces

So we don't fish alone here in Alaska. The two spotswe've been to, the Homer fishing hole and Anchor River, get pretty busy but we've heard it can get worse. I don't really like to tangle lines so I try and wait for more down times but Abe gets right in the middle of it of course. He's a little better at casting so it works for him. He's met some really awesome people on the River. They're a lot like him. Alaska attracts similar folks I guess. This weekend we actually ended up camping with a crew of people he met and it was really fun.

New Hats

So we came to Homer a little unprepared for the elements. I wasn't able to find good hats to buy... they were either to pricey or not worth buying. So I decided to use the yarn I brought to make Ezra a blankie to make hats for the boys. We think they turned out pretty cute! :) Thanks for sending more yarn Mom!

Abe's 1st King

This was Abe's first king. He caught it down at the fishing hole here in Homer. The boys were standing on the beach cheering for him the whole time. It was really cute. "GET IT DADDY!!!" I think they had everyone's attention... not too much pressure for Abe. He landed it on a muscle bed since the tide was so low. Kinda hard not to walk on the poor little guys sometimes. Oops!

Taking Ezra Fishing

So I've been taking Ezra Fishing. He likes it.