Georgia's racecar party

Happy Valentine's Day!

What have we been doing?

I know the blog posts have been a little sparse lately. It occurs to me that I have not taken a picture in over two weeks now. What have we been up to? In my case, sleeping. A lot. I think most everyone (and anyone who has seen me) knows this by now, but Zachary is going to be a big brother in approximately 16 more weeks. It's a boy, and no we haven't completely decided on a name yet!

Zachary is very excited, and will tell anyone who asks that his baby brother is in mommy's belly, cooking. The only time he has not seemed excited was when Charles asked him yesterday if he was going to be able to share his mommy. The look on his face indicated that this idea had not in fact occurred to him. He decided that daddy will take care of baby brother. I'll think about that later. :)

Meanwhile, we are doing fine - last weekend we went to a Superbowl party and Zachary had a blast playing with the other kids at the "football party". He is also very excited about Georgia's upcoming "racecar party". This past Saturday we drove to San Marcos for Andrew's all-region jazz band concert. Zachary sat very still through most of the long talk beforehand and all of the concert - he loves music. He also liked the big bobcat statue a lot. Hmm, that would have been a cute picture.

Every day he wants to watch Pete's Dragon and can speak the lines and sing the songs along with the movie. His vocabulary is quite extensive and we are amazed with the things he comes up with every day. The other day Charles called him 'Little Misters', one of his nicknames since he was a baby, and Zachary said 'No Daddy, that's silly, my Zachary!' He knows most of his shapes and colors now and can count up to about seventeen. He still loves school and church, and is doing just great.

I'll try to get better about the camera!

More playdate photos

Here are the ones Carolyn took:

Playdate with Tabitha

Here Tabitha's mom told her to give Zachary a hug - she went for it but he wasn't too sure about it!





But by the end they were best buds. :)

Mmmm, Uncle Jim's Ribs!

I didn't get to witness this particular dinner, but I'm told he cleaned the bone...

Big boy haircut

Two jelly beans on a flower plate!

That is what I heard first thing every morning for about three weeks from the time Zach discovered the Jelly Belly's my boss gave me for Christmas until the time they were gone! (Two, eleven, what's the difference?) :)

More random phone pictures

This is me and Zachary at Jiffy Lube the day before Thanksgiving. We were getting the oil changed for our trip to the farm so we took this picture to send to Daddy who was still at work. He was eating yogurt that I had in my lunch bag.

Here we are at a local park - I love the look on his face!

This is the Sunday before New Year's when we went to see the Biscuit Brothers live at the Scottish Rite Children's theater. They had a "countdown to noon" complete with hats and noisemakers. Zachary didn't quite know what to think but we had a lot of fun and even got to talk to them afterward.

On the 31st we had a Mommy and Me day and went to the Children's museum. We parked at my office and went inside before we walked over to the museum. Afterward we went and visited Daddy at his office. I think Zach thought seeing our offices was much cooler than the museum! But he did have fun - he headed straight to the train table...

And they had lots of fun stuff to build and play with...

We finished at the big train table!

Star Wars Room

Charles put the finishing touches on Zachary's new room this weekend - we love the way it turned out!

Awesome post-nap hair