Zach is playing, laughing and growing more and more each day. Let's go down the list:
- Crawling - check
- Saying Mama/Dada - check
- Trying to get into things that will most definitely kill him - double check
Kelly and I are trying to decide if this is a difficult stage. Since we don't have any kids (at least legitimate) to compare to, we're not sure if this is the hard time or not. He's crawling really fast and "Cruising" too and he really likes to open and close cabinets. Of course, the child locks are all in place (which is a common cause of frustration for us more so than him) but he still loves to find all the little areas that daddy neglected to child-proof. It's tough now because he used to just sit there like a sack of super cute potatoes, whereas now he will pretty much not sit still longer than two tenths of a second.
Since Kelly is in "teacher mode" Zach hasn't been on too many exotic outings recently, but he hates being pent up in the house all day so we take him out from time to time. Today was his [only] friend Molly's second birthday party (last year we went to Molly's first party on Zach's due date). He was in the baby zone, as he was surrounded by kids, which is pretty much his favorite thing in the world.
Molly, you are literally my best friend right now.Zach also went to the beach last month with us for the first time. We were going to go to the lake but he said something like "been there, done that" and ran off, so we took him to Malibu, where the city welcomed me by having a guy cut me off on Kanan, then flip me the bird, and then giving me a ticket for expired registration. Oh! Also, we went in the ocean.
Like Lewis and Clark stepping into the Pacific..except fewer bear attacks.It's summer time in the SCV so we have been heading down to Nonie and Papa's to swim a couple times. Zach loves the pool and would also like to drink the pool but for some reason, his mom and dad don't let him. While I was in N.C. for Heidi and Matt's wedding, Kelly and Zach went to Christine and Rick's to celebrate the 4th of July.
Zach told Katie not to worry and that he could hold her up in the deep end if she got scaredBack in June, we took Zach out to dinner, and have a couple times since then. He has a really cool folding booster seat that we got from Scott and Hadar. It's come in really handy. Zach is very well-behaved when we are eating out as long as the Cheerios keep flowing.
We only take him to the the finest restaurants and eateries....Chili's is a fine dining experience, right? Also, that's the same shirt I wore when Zach was born.Well I guess when I said that Zach hasn't been doing much earlier I lied, because I'm getting a little tired of typing at this point. Although, I did want to mention that Zach went to his first Dodger game....and they WON!?! He had a great time keeping mama busy while dada watched the game.
Just because he's playing peek-a-boo with Katie during this picture doesn't mean he didn't enjoy the game.I'll wrap this up now since I'm getting hungry, and my desire for chips and salsa is apparently much more important than the documentation of my child's life. I'll end with a quick video of Zach laughing and Kelly acting crazy:
Fun Facts:
- I'm on twitter now @Froflix which I use mostly to post quick pictures of Zach and wait for William to post pictures with funny sayings.
- Zach is getting really close to talking now; he's doing that jibba-jabba stuff. Kelly says that he's saying "dog" "door" "dad" etc, but I'm pretty sure he's just saying "duh" when he points to that stuff.
- Here's his actual vocabulary since Kelly got mad at me for the above point: door = "da", ball = "ba", dog = "da" (similar to door, but pointing at a dog), dada, mama, bye = "buh"
- Zach points at stuff that is interesting and can gesture for us to do stuff he wants....I wish I could point at stuff and have Kelly get it for me...like Doritos and Xbox controllers
