Close calls...

A funny day....I should have know it was going to be a day full of funny things. It started off great, Zane slept until it was actually light outside (very cool) and to top it off he decided to not wake us and to entertain himself (a first)..........................I woke up to him saying "ohhhh, look my blankie!", then I hear his little feet tromp into our room. There he is, covered in his paints. It's as if he made a mental note that I left the box on the counter and set his internal alarm to remind himself to take advantage. So, now the boy is discovered covered in paints, the only mystery left is where and what did he paint.

Lucky for us he stayed on the tile and nothing was irreversibly damaged. :)

Later that day I was taking a nap, Lee was in charge of daddy duty because I was sick. I woke up hearing zane say repeatedly "dad, come look at my poop" "dad! come look at my poop"...apparently dad was either not understanding or preoccupied so I drug myself out of bed hoping to find zane looking into the toilet (he isn't potty trained yet so that was a bit of wishful thinking). I pass the bathroom and find him in his room squatting by his diaper pointing at his poop, not really a good thing for a toddler to take off his own nasty diaper. Luckily, once again, no damage done and my carpets are still clean!

In the evening (this doesn't actually involve a mess) we were hanging out in our living room and Zane had went into his room. He ran out saying there was a monster in his room, I said "oh, well isn't he your friend? why don't you go and say hi?" so he returns and the conversation goes "Hi monster, you want to be my friend? oh ok, How are you?" I couldn't really make out the rest of the conversaton but I thought it was very cute. I definitely see an imaginary friend in his future.

One more funny thing about Zane, he is obsessed with colors and identifies people by the color they wear, today I am blue. So, a couple weeks ago we are sitting at a table at the food court and he sees a lady and says "she's black" the lady was wearing a black shirt...I though "oh no..." Luckily she didn't hear him however I can see the day where I have to explain that I am not identifing people by their race and that he is just talking about what they are wearing...

Mind of a two year old

Although it has some challenges attached, I love this toddler stage. It is so funny how a two year olds mind works. A few weeks ago we were teaching Zane that red means stop and green means go...he was, and still is, very adement that red means go and green means stop....We couldn't figure out his logic and continued the argument and one day while in the car he says, "No, not red means stop, red says go" and then I got it "Ready, Set, Go" or in a toddlers mind "red said go". I've come to accept that, although my two year old can hit a baseball from a pitch and nail the bazonkazonk out of a golf ball, he will not excell at "Red light, Green light", and that's ok, as long as he is convinced by the time he is 15 that red means go he'll be ok. :)

Another funny story: We were sitting at the table finishing dinner when Zane lets one rip. It was a passing of gas to match a very grown man. So Zane laughs, I say "oh my gosh!" and Lee, as ritual says "pooter" and then Zane says "pooter". Then Zane, still laughing says, "I want to do that again!" He even grunted a bit to make the attempt. Boys! :)

I'm sure I had a few more tidbits to jot down but I can't think of them now now. Zane is so much fun, such a personality! Although we anticipated another baby much sooner, I'm glad we've had so much time to spend with Zane. He isn't too excited about the new arrival, but he says he will love it anyway. (I'm pretty sure this one will make it's way here if not, lds family services will be the next resort) Any pointers for making the transition from one to two will be greatly appreciated. :)

Family Photos

Doing our own family photos is always a challenge...they rarely turn out the way I want them because we are so limited when we aren't controlling the focus and zoom...one of these days I am going to hire an outside photographer! Here are the shots that did work out... at least we didn't have to go far, we did these in our front yard.

quiet...

As a mom you enjoy a little "quiet time" however as much as you want to indulge in the moment of solitude you know deep down that something is definitely not going well. My fear is that some day I will come into the room and see that Zane has gotten a hold of a sharpie and went to town on my carpet. With that in mind it is only a small humorous sight to return to the room and see that he has only gotten into my purse and used my mascara as lip gloss...

nice look!

fishing

Zane and I went on a little fishin outting. The weather was awesome and the leaves were very pretty! (although not very pretty in the photo). Zane thought it was fun to bouce the bobber up and down and hooked me, lucky for me it caught on my underwear and not my back...also lucky for me I was able to rip out the barbed hook and I didn't have to go ask the wildlife guy to cut the hook out of the back of my panties! LOL

nature trail

proud of his fishing pole, so exited to fish!

fall photos...

it has been a while since i have taken "formal" photos of zane. we've been so crazy with the new house that i neglected my over obsessive photo opts. i took these pictures on someone's property down the street from us. she probably thought i was a bit weird for asking to use her field but i couldn't resist.

I love this shot, it's sweet and I love the background. I really like being in north ga, it is so pretty.

he is pointing at a bee, he tried to shower it with flower petals.

above is just cute and to the right is my FAVORITE. i love pictures that show personality!

figured i would group a few together so the page didn't go on forever.....

:)

Innocence...

One of these days I will update our insanely crazy up and down, down and up life...but right now I don't have the energy or shots needed to adequately report the story...so on to the story at hand...

I love the innocence of toddlerhood...it's so funny to see how little untainted minds work. Zane definitely gets away with more if he portrays that state of innocence. (Although, the other day he proved he is perfectly capable of "acting innocent" which was just as funny so he got off the hook for that offense as well).

example one: today in the bath zane emptied out close to half a bottle of shampoo. our bathtub wall is pretty high so all I could see was the top third of his body. so he proudly showed me the empty bottle and proclaimed he did it "by himself"... i seriously can't even afford a bottle of shampoo right now (that would be the down part of the life alluded to earlier) but really it was more cute and funny than anything so we bypassed the "how could you be so wasteful, lecture" ;)

example two: yesterday we went to pick zane up from my brother's house. he was in a great mood and had been a "perfect angel" the whole time. he and jerry (his cousin) were in the kitchen and we hear jerry start to cry while zane was running to me laughing and telling me to look. I asked him why Jerry was crying and he was laughing, he apparently (acording to him) hit the cup of water Jerry was holding (i'm not sure if it was intentional or not) the water got on Jerry and he thought it was hillarious. Jerry didn't, but it really wasn't a major smack down and his response was so funny that it was sort of difficult to chastize him. (although he did have to say sorry and give him a hug and we are working on the "showing sympathy" thing).

example three: (my favorite and, as usual, involved jerry) we were at my parents house and jerry and zane were in the family room while myself, lee, and jen were talking with our backs to the room in the breakfast area. we were interupted by jerry crying (again) however zane was all the way accross the room sitting in a rocking chair carefully studying a book on his lap....we were trying to figure out what happened to jerry (because obviously zane had nothing to do with it, he was immersed in his book on the other side of the room) jen then recalled a smacking sound and then the jetting super patter of little feet. realizing that zane probably was involved and seeing how he tried to pull off appearing innocent really just made me chuckle and think "wow, he is smart for two" so he was off the hook because it really was too humorous and jerry was ok. :)

anyway, toddlers are so funny. challenging at times but mostly funny and amusing.

I feel i should add that zane really isn't a bully, he is usually defending rather than initiating.