fireman

I love that we are getting lots of rain except that Zane gets cabin fever and then he does not sleep well. So I was telling my mom and she pointed out the obvious, which to me was a stroke of brilliance, buy the boy some rain boots and jacket. Wow, couldn't have thought of that on my own....so we did...
Zane got his first rain jacket and boots, what makes it the most awesome set is that it is a "firefighter" outfit...Zane is now a fireman and is almost always wearing his rain gear. Good thing he is super cute doing it. :)
Along with being obsessed with being a fireman he is also obsessed with his upcoming b-day party (in two months). He brings it up all the time in conversation so I asked him who he was going to invite to his party. I first suggested grandma so he would understand the question, his list of people are as follows:

Jerry
Heidi
Santa Clause
Grandma & Grandpa
Daddy
No cows, horses, moose, or zebras
well, just little tiny Zebras
No plants and trees and grass

I'm not sure if Santa will be able to make it although that would be cool. Ever since Santa brought him a train for Christmas he has been his #1 pal, Santa even took Jesus' spot of the people who he loves and loves him. We are working on it. Monday our FHE lesson was entitled "Jesus is better than Santa-although we do still like Santa"

Art

"spider"

the "stare down"

Above: baby brother

the sun

my favorite "daddy with lots of legs"

I love children's art...Zane enjoys drawing and has always been pretty meticulous with his pictures. He was drawing triangles, squares, circles, ovals, fish, and rocket ships six to nine months ago, now he has moved on to a bit more animated objects. Unfortunately his best work is usually done on a doodle or aquadoodle so I can't keep them so yesterday I decided to preserve his pictures by taking a picure of his drawings.

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!