Zander had a visitor

AJ from Portland, OR sent us his buddy Flat Stanley. He became part of our family for a week. We even had to do emergency surgery because Zander was loving him too much! Here are some
pictures of Flat Stanley during his visit.


We stopped by the capitol.



















He found our candy drawer!












Zander kissing Flat Stanley, as they watch the movie Cars.











The boys in front of Kohl Center.











The boys going potty together.




















We are looking forward to seeing all my siblings the end of this week. We are heading to Indiana to visit my Dad and Bernita, my Grandma Marion and Grandma/Grandpa Miiller. Watch out Goodland Indiana, the 5 K's will be in town!

March - my favorite month of the year!

Why? March madness baby! Plus inevitable end of winter.

Alright so update on Mr. Zander - as you can imagine he is quite the little toddler. He absolutely loves football, basketball and cars. The biggest milestone - peeing in the potty. He has been sitting on the potty for the last few weeks but two Wednesdays ago at school he peed in the potty twice - 9:15 and 2:40! He has gone about once a day since. His reward is picking out a sticker and putting it on his "pee pee chart" he is quite proud of himself after accomplishing this milestone. It's a start to what we hope will become Zander in big boy panties.

Another fantastic milestone - each time he sees a basketball game on TV, he says "Go Indiana!" I couldn't be more proud.

We went to Mexico early February - yes, we were lucky enough to be sitting in the sun while Wisconsin was getting blasted with the worst blizzard in a decade. It was a lovely time with Daryl and Jess. We really just relaxed - I even read three books while sitting on the beach. We were able to watch the super bowl in English on the beach. Can't get better than that - oh, wait it did - Packers won!

Zander likes to help with laundry.


And loves the camera!



















This is the view from our beach chair - infinity pool -now you know why we never left the chair!











Kristen - this picture is for you!









This is a group picture at the Mexican restaurant restaurant.

Merry Christmas

Here are a few pictures of Zander from school.





A few quick updates on Zander:
-We just had his 18 month check-up, I know hard to believe he is already 1.5 years old. He weighed 27 pounds, 32 inches long.
-He is talking quite a bit, we are just not sure who he gets that trait from - Tony or me?
-He still loves, loves books. Now that is a trait neither Tony or I have, so we are quite puzzled who he got that from! :-)

This is our Christmas card, so enjoy.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Love,
Kacey, Tony and Zander

Zander is loved!

Hello everyone!
I thought I would share a few pictures from Zander's school. He has moved up to the Gazelle room last week with his friend Luke. I just had to share this picture!


Here are a few more from school on Friday.






A few more updates:
-One month until I am done with school. Hard to believe it's almost over, but I am oh so ready to be done.
-A week from Tuesday my family begins to arrive home for Thanksgiving! Looking forward to seeing everyone (except Kurt, Gret, and Rory-still hoping they find cheap tickets!) So it should be a fun filled family bonding time.
-Zander got his first haircut at a salon two weeks ago. Let's just say he did not like sitting in a chair with a clippers at his head. He looks like a big boy now!

Take care -
Tony, Kacey and Zander

Two posts in one week!

I posted on Sunday so if you haven't read that - you can read two posts from us in one week.

Anyway, I had to share a few pictures from school (aka daycare) this week because they were too funny not to share.

Here is the post from his teacher - Ms. Kathy: Zander wasn't too sure about playing with the leaves that were in the bucket. He shook his head no when I asked him if he wanted to hold any. But then he brought over his vacuum to clean up our mess. So cute!



Zander and Luke thought it was funny to help Ms. Stacy stomp on the leaves!!



Zander went over to sit on the soft climber after I asked him to come over and join us. (Doesn't he like as if, he's so sad to play with leaves).

It's Mr. Zander now!

I haven’t posted since end of July. Ooops! We are still alive and doing great.

Zander updates:
1) He is walking and running around – he loves it. We bought him a battery operated four wheeler last week and loves riding that around although he is having a difficult time pressing the button for it to go. So he pushes the button then stops and rocks back and forth trying to get it to go again.
2) He loves trucks, busses, tractors anything boy! He went to his first tailgate yesterday for the Badgers and we sat him in his stroller right by the sidewalk, he sat there most of the time watching the traffic and people. He even got a sticker from some cute college chicks and had a few other college girls tell him how cute he was. Already a ladies man!
3) Zander will be Superman for Halloween. We went camping last weekend for Halloween so he dressed up in his costume and we walked around to the campsites for trick-or-treat and drink-or-treat for adults! They have shots for the adults and candy for the kids.

4) As we have stated previously, Zander may be a genius so he is moving up to the next classroom at school (aka-daycare) on Nov 1st. He will be moving from the Monkey room to the Gazelle room.
5) He is really starting to talk and use words. He also signs many words thanks to school and Grandma Bonnie, for example he signs – milk, please. It’s quite cute.
6) Here is a picture of Zander yesterday afternoon, he sat and pulled every kleenex out of the box and shredded each one. What a mess, but he had fun doing it.


We are doing a bit of remodeling/redecorating in our house – it’s been three years, time for some change. We are going to get rid of the god awful counters in the laundry room, redecorate our room including new furniture and put a wood floor in the rec area – from the bar past the air hockey table.

6 weeks and counting until graduation!!

Zander Videos!

Kristen is home this week and was kind enough to show me how to upload videos, so here are a few for you to enjoy. Don't worry each video is about 30 seconds to a minute long.

This first one will bring you back to Zander's due date. If you remember like I do, I was six days late. He was due on Monday June 15th and he finally arrived on ySaturday morning. Please note - I was rather large and well let's just say pissy! :-)


This is Zander loving his jumper. (this was taped back in May)



A few milestones to tell you about:

He is WALKING!!!!!! Yay, Zander. He is not doing it 100% of the time but he is much happier when he does take those steps!

He is starting to use utensils to feed himself and it's pretty funny to watch, well and messy too.

He continues to get more and more teeth, he now has his molars and he is getting his eye teeth. Chomp, chomp...

Here is the link to his one year pictures if you haven't seen them already. I will have to say they are all adorable - Krista did a fantastic job!
http://share.shutterfly.com/share/received/welcome.sfly?fid=45e05769bfdbeae5&sid=0AcOHDJi5ctmL24