New Camera

We just got a new camera. So these are just some of the photos we took while playing around with our new toy.

















Just for some general information, Brylee just turned 6 months old. She now weighs 20 lbs. She has two teeth and uses them to chew on everything. Her favorite thing to do is blow rasberries. It's especially funny when she does it on your arm when you're holding her.

In the Army now

YAY! We're finally together again. We sucessfully made the trip and are now living on base in North Carolina. Our little place is great. While the kitchen is small, it opens to the dining area which makes it feel bigger. And there is LOTS of room for storage.


While there are little playgrounds throughout our neighborhood the library has a great playground. We took the kids there Saturday and Zach went wile. The kid couldn't concentrate on any one thing.


Jake gave Zach a buzz cut last week. I'll admit I was traumatized. He didn't look like my little boy anymore. It took me a couple of days to adjust. I never thought of myself as vain until this happened. It's true what they say. You really do learn more about yourself when you have a crisis in your life.

Zach loved going down this very tall red slide. What you can't tell from the pictures (or even just looking at it) is that there are several small bumps going down it. The only reason I know they exist is because Zach made me go down the slide one day. It wasn't a pretty sight. One of the mothers there told me she was glad I did it first so she knew how silly you look going down it. It may have been one of the most humiliating things I've ever done.

Jake got Brylee to scrunch her head down into her shoulders. He thought it was pretty funny. Brylee is getting really heavy. I don't know how much she weighs, but it's enough so that I have come to hate carrying her around all day. She has started eating solids. We're sticking with just rice cereal right now, but she loves it. I think she really just loves the idea of eating real food. She sits in her high chair for meals. It keeps her busy and lets me eat without having her try to wrestle my food away.We love you all.

Polar Express

We got to do the Polar Express this year. It was a lot of fun. I was a little worried that Zach would sleep through it. But he woke up as soon as he saw the train.

Zach loved the hot chocolate that he got. He loved it so much that he didn't want to try his cookie.

By the end he was facinated with his (and everyone else's) ticket. He even went up to a stranger on the train and was trading tickets.

As you can see he was still facinated with his ticket by the time he met Santa. He offered Santa one quick glance then back to the ticket. He even ended up with an extra ticket by the end. I don't know how. After everything was done Zach did the cutest thing. He took his ticket and put it in his boot. Just like the kid did in the movie. Just goes to show that kids pick up a lot more than we give them credit for.

Halloween

Halloween was fun. We went to the ward's annual Trunk-or-Treat. Zach dressed up as Thomas the Tank Engine. We tried to get him in an Alligator costume, but he wouldn't do it. Brylee was dressed as a chicken. I wasn't going to dress her up at all. But I found her costume at Babies 'R' Us for $5. Who could resist?

There were lots of thing to do at the Trunk-or-Treat. Zach tried eating a donut off of a string without using his hands. I didn't see it though. I was taking care of Brylee at the moment. I heard it was hillarious. Maybe, next time.

I did get to see him Pumpkin Bowl. They set up soda bottles with water in them as pins. And mini Pumpkins were the bowling balls. He couldn't get any off the pins over, but he had fun anyway.

The activities commitee actually brought in a bale of hay and spread it around in a classroom. In the hay were a bunch of tokens. The game was to find as many tokens as you can. Zach didn't want to find tokens. But he was great at throwing the hay!

In what was scary stories for older kids turned into Halloween songs for younger ones. Sis. Lane was great. There were a couple of songs where she jumped Zach. But, as you can see, he didn't mind.

Zach wasn't very good at the trick-or treating part of the night. But what can you expect from a two-year-old? He didn't want to hold the bag, and was too shy to say "trick-or-treat." But he did want people to put the candy into his hand so he could put it into the bag himself.

Brylee is 1 month old!

Brylee is 1 month old today. Time has flown by so fast. She's awake a lot more now and holds her head up really well. She also sleeps well at night. Something Zach has yet to accomplish. She now weighs 12lbs 5 oz and measures about 23" long. Her hair is also beginning to become lighter. It will be interesting to see how light it will get.

Zach loves to hold her. More recently he has started to give her kisses. It's so sweet! You have to tell him "no more" to get him to stop. We are truly blessed to have Zach love her as much as he does.

Pumpkin Land

On Columbus Day I took Zach and we spent the day at Pumpkin Land. I left Brylee at home with my mom because, as you can see, it wasn't the greatest day out. We had so much fun with Meredith and her girls! I wish we could do it next year.

They had this great slide that Zach loved. It was made out of old bowling alley lanes and placed on a steep hill. Zach went down with Fina the first time. But after that he did it on his own. It was a fight to get him away. We even ended up going back there at the end.

Near the slide area was a dance floor. Fina and Sophie jumped on up and had fun dancing to the music. Zach, like a typical boy, did not. Zach doesn't dance. All I could think was, "His dad would be so proud."

But by the end Zach was up on the dance floor. He wasn't dancing though. He saw some little girls running in circles and he couldn't resist. After all, running is his favorite thing to do.

This is something I wish I had in my backyard. A kid sized truck made of wood. It kept Zach entirely entertained while Meredith took the girls to do stuff that Zach is still too young for.

This is from whe Brylee was born. I know it's a few weeks old, but I'm just getting started on this blog thing and can't locate some of my pictures. Zach loves to hold her. The first night after he held her he wouldn't let anyone else near her. He still tries to tear her away from me so he can hold her. He has yet to learn that you need to be soft with the baby all the time and not just some of the time.




This is Zach with his cousin Drew in Rockland. We all took a trip to Rockland and walked along the boardwalk there. It was a lot of fun.

At the end of the boardwalk is a beach. I decided to let Zach play in the water even though it was cold out. He had a blast and then needed to be forced out of the water. This of course led to a fit (to understate a bit). But we still had fun.