Sunday family Day

For our Sunday family day this week we met Mike and Katie at our favorite breakfast place downtown for brunch.  Then walked around downtown and stopped in at the Candy Kitchen for a treat. 

Zachary and Austin stretched out his legs after a stroller ride back to the car before the car ride home. 

Then we came home and had a relaxing day around the house watching golf and playing video games. 

Apparently we play too much around Z because he took the fan remote that is white like a Wii remote, went and sat by Austin and turned it sideways like he was playing too. 

Another activity he has been copying from me is drinking from my cup.  I drink water non-stop out of a reusable cup with a lid and straw.  He likes to come up and pretend to drink out of it but has been getting better.  Today Austin made us fruit smoothies and Zachary was able to easily drink this up with the straw. 

It will be nice to have him be able to drink from our straws at restaurants when out and not have not pack a sippy cup.  

15 Month Check Up

Yes, Zachary turned 16 months yesterday, but he is a little behind because he was sick and his doctor was on vacation the first two weeks of July. 

He weighed 21 pounds 13 oz which is between the 5th and 1oth percentile for a boy his age and he is 32 inches tall, which is between the 50th and 75th percentile.  He checked out good on all the growth and progress testing and received his recommended immunizations.  He should be good until mid-September when he has his next check up unless we have another round of illness. 

Here are a few photos of Zachary last night.  He has started to take the spoon from us and want to feed himself.  Obviously he isn’t great at it yet, but he does get some food in with the spoon and the rest he grabs with his other hand and helps in that way. 

Our walls are destine to need a paint job between him and the animals. 

Family Bike Ride and Other Activities

This morning we were able to take our first family bike ride. 

Z showing off his crash test look with his new helmet.

Getting the trailer straps fitted to him, which ended up getting frustrating for him so we had to take a break back inside after this phase.

Then we were off.  We stayed around the neighborhood and the street out by our house because none of the roads around here have bike paths. 

We need to get a bike rack for the Cruz so we can take the bikes out to the islands were there are great bike trails and paths all over, hopefully that will happen soon.

This is an actual farm house maybe a mile or so from our house.  I am pretty sure it was built a couple hundred years ago.  Not one lives in this portion currently it is used as more of a storage area or outbuilding.  I can only assume that the road came after the house, it goes right through their property between the houses. 

In this photo you can see the newer farm house on the right side of the road is where the family lives, it is probably a hundred years old at least, very cool looking place though.  And one of the few places to see cows in Georgia, we always “moo” at them and try to get them respond which they usually do. 

This afternoon a storm came in (which it will for the next 30 days), and cools off the area.  We went into historic Savannah and went around to a few places.  Went to Paris Market and drank an Italian soda, the cupcake shop and walked around the neighborhoods toward the South of the district.  I forgot to take pictures except of while Zachary and I were waiting in the Hyatt as Austin went down to River street to get a drink, but it was a relaxing “vacation” style day. 

Last weekend Austin went camping with a couple friends, since I was home entertaining Z all weekend alone I decided to get him a new toy to help.

He’s actually pretty good and has a blast banging away at them.  He is still working on how to keep playing the drums and dance along with his tunes at the same time. 

Here is a picture of him performing a new trick he taught himself.  He can now shoot "cheerios” across the room with his finger.  I didn’t care to stop him because he was laughing so hard I couldn’t help but just laugh along with him.  Plus Daisy really appreciates all the cereal on the floor for her to clean up.  I really wanted to get a video of him because he was laughing so hard he could hardly breath.  Of course when I got the camera out he stopped. 

And I’ll end with pictures of naked Baby Z playing football with Austin. 

Happy 4th of July

Zachary enjoying a firework.  We lit them off on the 3rd of July as late as possible before we put Z to bed but it was still light outside, it was hot and the bugs were miserable.  It has officially become “winter” here when we hang inside or in the water for a month or two.  Of course we can’t complain since it is beautiful 10 months of the year. 

I had to purchase the turtle firework. 

He looks so big sitting in the chair watching the fireworks.  He has made big changes in the past couple weeks and Austin gave him a hair cut last weekend which always makes him look older again. 

A video of the reaction to each firework. 

Let There Be Rock

We played some family Rock Band tonight.  Zachary is fascinated with drums and drum sticks, but we haven’t let him actually play until tonight. 

Pulling out his inner rocker attitude.

And here is a video of us all playing a song.  In my defense I was playing keyboard and taking the video.