One party down; one to go!

Zane has two 2 year old birthday parties to attend today! Thankfully, they are spaced out enough in the day that he is able to take a nap before the 2nd one (which he is currently fighting)...who knew he was such a party animal! The first party was for his little friend Alex! This was a pretty cool party, they had it at a community center that has a toddler play room. The kids got to play with every toddler toy imaginable for and hour and a 1/2 and then they got to sit down for a lunch full of sugar...cake!!

Zane & Alex

Of course he found the vacuum cleaner to play with!!

See video below for this one in action!

Hey, I had to have some fun too!

Takin' a drive!

Sharing his cake!

More Grandpa Fun.

Zane and I went to dinner at my dad's house last night after work. Zane had fun with grandpa as usual!!

Fun with Grandpa & a fort!

Zane spent the whole day with just Grandpa Alexander! As always they had so much fun together. Another fun event to happen today was that our new dishwasher was delivered (Josh is installing it right now)...so grandpa built Zane a fort/clubhouse out of the box!

First thing this morning...snuggles on the floor!


Grandpa & Zane in the clubhouse.

Vacuums.

This kid has the biggest fascination with vacuum cleaners right now. He is constantly opening up the hall closet where its kept and pointing to it and cries when we tell him no, that we aren't going to vacuum right now and make him shut the door.

The other night we were at Sears doing some appliance shopping and as I was looking around Josh let Zane roam for awhile (w/dad in tow of course) and the kid headed straight to the vacuums and wanted to play with them all.



I stopped by my favorite consignment shop in town tonight to look for a few things for Zane and as I was looking around he headed off to look at the toys as usual and look what he found...I couldn't pass it up for only $5!







He was soooo excited about this new toy and was less than thrilled when I made him sit down for dinner and to stop playing with it.



I sure hope he is still this excited about helping me clean when he's 13!

Balloons.

Zane has been crazy about balloons lately. Everytime we are in a store and they are hanging around, he immediately points to them and smiles. The other day while grocery shopping, he spotted some and I couldn't help, but get him a "Zane-size" balloon to play with. He played with this thing non-stop for two days until the stick broke and became too dangerous to play with anymore!

Zane with our good friend Lisa; he absolutely adores her!

Pizza Pizza!

We had pizza for dinner tonight and I had cut up a few pieces of it and put it on Zane's plate, but as soon as he saw me coming to the table with my piece he wanted it. I tried pointing out to him that he had the same thing on his plate, but he wanted a whole piece, so that's what he got. I couldn't believe how he chowed down on that thing. I guess he likes it!

New Tricks.

Zane presented two new tricks to us last Saturday. The first was proving to us he is an escape artist in the making! He was up in his crib taking a nap...or supposed to be taking a nap. I could hear him via the monitor talking and playing instead of sleeping, but figured after a bit he'd finally get himself to sleep. He rarely fights naps and usually goes right down, so this was something new. As I'm sitting downstairs listening to him "talk", I was just getting to the point to go up there and reinforce to him that it was nap time and it was time to sleep when all of a sudden I heard a loud THUD and then him scream/cry. I ran upstairs and as I got closer to his door I could hear him standing at the door...what???? Yep, the little booger escaped his crib! Thankfully, we still had one more notch we could lower the mattress, so Josh took care of that right away and he hasn't tried it since! Hopefully he's learned his lesson because I'm not ready to put him in a toddler bed yet; although a toddler bed is better than him possibly breaking a bone jumping out of his crib! Sorry no pictures of that trick seeing as how I hadn't set up my nanny-cam yet, haha!

Zane's 2nd trick is he's apparently learned how to take off his pants. He was playing in the living room after his nap (yes, he finally did lay down and take one after calming down from his jump) and I was in the kitchen and I looked into the other room and saw him taking off his pants!! Goofball! He hasn't tried it again since, but gave me a good laugh this time!