More wedding pictures...

For some really gorgeous pictures from the wedding click on Tyler's blog. Thanks Tyler for pointing me to them! FYI, Tyler is the adorable Georgia's daddy.

Cousin Georganna's wedding

A couple of weeks ago we went to Zachary's second wedding of his life - my cousin Georganna's.


Georganna looked just gorgeous!


Zachary and his daddy didn't look too shabby either!

All the men were handsome in their suits - this is my cousin Ben and Uncle Warren with Charles - we thought they had a nice assortment of ties.

Since it was Mother's Day weekend, we took advantage of the fact that we were all three together, dressed up nice, and took a picture for Mom while she was in the bathroom to surprise her with the next day.

I'm not sure what Granddad is whispering to Zachary here, but it looks pretty important.

Zachary got passed around a lot at the reception - here he is with Aunt Jaime.

Here are Reid and Andrew, all hopped up on Shirley Temples and Roy Rogerses. Notice Reid's red tongue from the cherries - I think this was after his eighth or so...

Uh oh, it looks like he's telling Uncle Warren Granddad's secret!

Zachary got to try lots of great food - salmon, twice-baked potatoes, green beans, a little mushroom... he's not too sure about this roll though.

He had a lot of fun dancing too - they had a great live band.

Who is that suspicious character lurking in the background with the camera? Just kidding! It's our next door neighbor Tyler! It was a fun surprise to see him there.

All tuckered out...

We had a lot of fun - Congratulations Georganna and James!!

Tooth #3!

Official eruption date of Top Lefty: Monday, May 21st, after four days of fever and general crankiness.

Look what I can do!!!

Official first pull-up to standing (i.e. the first time Mommy saw it): Thursday, May 18th.

Music education Part 3

Last week was our neighborhood garage sale - we got a lot of cool stuff from our neighbors down the street, including this neat percussion set...

Zachary's first movie

How many kids can say that the first movie they ever saw at the theater, their dad's name was in the credits? :)

The movie premiere was really fun - Zachary hung out with Aunt Kathleen and the boys while Mommy and Daddy went to the first showing, then they all joined us for the second showing, along with Uncle Robert and Aunt Jaime. It was really great to finally see the outcome of all of Charles's hard work -we were very proud!




The line to get in - people were lining up over an hour before it started.

Flatland premieres today!

I've been meaning to post about this for a while, for anyone who is wondering what that link is for - Charles has been working on this movie for about a year now, and it is finally finished!

This is a film that started out as a home-grown Austin project, but it has really grown and has some big name actors in it. It's based on the 1898 Edwin Abbott novel, and is a 30-minute film that will be used in classrooms to help teach about dimensions and shapes.

Flatland debuts today as part of the Austin Film Festival. It has had quite a few write-ups in the press and they had to add a second screening because the first one sold out!

Austin Film Festival
Austin Chronicle (link is fixed!)
Austin 360 - best bet!
Austin movie blog
News 8 Austin
Blog of Jeffrey Travis - filmmaker
Flatland on IMDB

Company picnic

A couple of weeks ago we went to my company's picnic. We forgot the camera but they were taking pictures of each family as we came in. I had to post this because I love the matching looks of excitement on Charles and Zachary. :-)

We waited for Zachary to wake up from his nap before we went, so we missed the barbecue and ice cream, but Charles got to play some basketball and Zachary and I checked out the clowns and went inside a tepee. We also went out on a paddleboat - it was fun!

Babies don't keep

My mother made this when she was pregnant with my brother, 30 years ago. It has been hanging in the hallway of our house in Corpus ever since, so every time I walked down the hallway growing up I saw it. Those words have been ingrained in my mind since I was a little girl - sometimes they would just pop into my head and get stuck there for a while for no good reason. Now that I have Zachary, I realize how true those words are, and I'm so glad I knew from the start to appreciate every moment with him and not sweat the small stuff. The best part is that just before Zachary was born, my mom gave this to me, so now I can see it every day again. I can't say how special that was to me - thanks Mom!

*****

I started this post on October 1st, but for some reason I never posted it - I just noticed it sitting there in 'draft' status. How true it is though! Today Zachary is nine months' old. Nine months! How much faster did these nine months go than the nine months before he was born?! How has he already gone from my sweet-smelling newborn to this little person with a personality?

Happy 9 months Baby Z!

Laundry day

Crawling

This is today...

Zach in action

This is from last Saturday - you should see him this week!

8 1/2 month checkup

Zachary had his checkup with Dr. Jolet on Monday. The good news was he didn't have to get any shots, but he did have to get some blood drawn from his finger. I think they check for lead and anemia, but I'm not sure. Anyway, he weighs 24 pounds (97th percentile), is 30.5 inches long (>97%), with a 48 cm head (>97%). So he is now on the chart in weight but has stretched out some.

He is really starting to crawl now - he can get a few knee crawls in, then drops to his belly and marine crawls the rest of the way. He knows 'give me five!' and is almost waving bye-bye. His hair is really growing in now too. He is so much fun!

New homeowners!

After the weenie races, Charles went to help Robert and Jaime move into their new house. After we took a nap, Zachary and I went over there too. Zachary had fun reading books and playing the piano with their nephew Brennan, who was very sweet to share his french fries with Zachary. Brennan is so cute - he looks a lot like we imagine Zachary will look in a few years. Jaime's sister Joanie got some cute pictures of them together - hopefully she'll send me some so I can post them here (hint hint) :-).

Fun (sort of) at the Weenie races

Things are still pretty busy at work, so I'm a little behind in the blogging but I'll try to get caught up here...

Last Saturday we went to the Weiner dog races in Buda for our third year in a row. The theme this year was Teenage Mutant Ninja Weiners. By the time we got the stroller, sunscreen, dog, baby, hat, etc. packed up, we were already tired! Luckily we had preregisterd this year so Tootie was in race number 12, instead of 63 like last year. The weenie dog races have really taken off! We got there just in time for the costume awards and the first race. Tootie ran like a champ, but didn't advance to the next round on Sunday, which was just as well. After our race we went and looked at the ponies, but it was Zachary's naptime and he seemed pretty indifferent to the whole thing, so we went on home. I asked if he remembered going last year in my belly, but he just looked at me like I was crazy. I'm sure that won't be the last time. :)

Notice the pregnant woman next to us - we saw several really pregnant women. My first thought was 'are they crazy?' but then I remembered that was me last year, so I had to withhold judgment. :)

Here is me at the starting line - Tootie was in the green lane. The eventual winner of the whole thing was Copper - he has won several years in a row now.

See, here we are last year. Wow, I was already big!

We didn't get a picture of Tootie this year, but he was happy to go out in the car. He got another certificate of participation to add to his collection.