Zach enjoying the real wave machine for his nap today. It is just that time of year where we end up at the beach or pool every weekend.
Taylor sitting with Zach, she does very well watching him and enjoys him a lot.
Out like a baby…oh wait.
Unfortunately since it has been hot lately the jelly fish were near shore and 2 of the girls with us got stung, not by this jelly fish, but one of his friends.
On Friday of last week Baby Z turned 3 months old.
He usually knocks over the blocks after about 30 seconds.
Blanky
Zach’s favorite thing lately is his blanket that has a monkey’s head on it with a rattle inside. It is silk on one side and soft fuzzy on the other.
He can be entertained for a while playing with it and sometimes only will be happy if he has it to play with.
Striker Style
The end of the season All-star game was Saturday night and Austin and I were selected to represent the BL Striker’s team.
Part of the team that came out to watch posing after the game.
Pool Time
Zach literally napping in the pool. We spent a couple hours on Father’s day afternoon chilling in our friend’s pool.
We put up our umbrella to keep Zach in the shade as well have a 50 SPF rash guard and swim suit on him. I will be thankful when he is old enough for sun screen too.
He is so chubby we just had to rest his head on a shoulder or hand slightly and the rest of his body floats along. He stayed like this for a long time, hour or more with me just holding his head (Austin is in the picture of course).
The view from Zach’s chair.
The Doten girls, Tay floated Zach for a while on her float as well.
Baby and Daddy having some Father’s Day time.
Happy Father’s Day to Austin.
Zach loves his Daddy
He has been a Daddy’s boy from the first minutes of life.
He made this for Austin at Day Care.
And no Austin doesn’t wear a shirt unless we are going somewhere in the 5 min or just got home. But it saves on energy to keep the AC set point higher.
Happy Father’s Day to our Dad’s as well! Wish we could see you today, but have a great day without us around.
We’ll post again later today with the other activities from the week including Zach’s 3 month photos.
I started back at work in a new role last week on Monday which meant Zach had to start in Day Care.
By Wednesday evening he had a cough and by Thursday a full blown cold. He went to bed from 6 pm to 7 am on Friday when I woke him to go to work.
Thankfully he recovered quickly and was pretty much normal by Friday evening. Of course then I caught the cold.
This past Sunday we had the end of the Season kickball tournament. It was unseasonable warm, around 100 degrees and we played from 11 am to 8 pm straight, including a 13 inning game. Rough, even for Georgians.
We have a kickball event Saturday but are planning on mostly just relaxing this weekend as Zach demonstrates below.
While the goal was to catch fish, I enjoyed watching dolphins and snorkeling the best. There were many dolphins playing with us throughout the day.
Captain Steve slowed the boat to about 20 MPH so the dolphins would swim along side of us. I took these pictures from the bow looking down into the water. Once you get a mile or away from where the Savannah River enters the ocean the ocean water is so clear and blue it is amazing. We also saw many flying fish and went snorkeling at a reef with Barracudas (took a while to get me in the water with those), Snapper and Cobia.
Kerri and I with our first (Kerri) and 3rd (me) place platters.
A barracuda I got but isn’t worth points in the tourney or good to eat so we released him. But still fun to catch. I got this before we went swimming with them which is why I was hesitant to get in the water. You should see the teeth on that thing!
The tower in the back ground is an old Navy research tower about 50 miles off shore which acts as an artificial reef for the fish.
Captain Janelle driving the boat. The Ocean was calm that day, we are going about 30 miles per hour 50 miles out and no waves.
Kerri and I taking our fish to the weigh in.
Slammer II fishing team with the winning Cobia Kerri caught. I caught a few big fish but the only ones I could weigh in for points in the tournament were Bass.
It was a great day with many fun memories. Of course it was hard to be off shore where there is no phone service for 14 hours, but definitely worth it. Austin and Zach had a fun Daddy and Baby day which they haven’t ever been able to do before.
And for good measure here are some recent pictures of Baby Z.
