Forget Crawling

Zander has yet to crawl however last week he pulled himself up on a shelf at daycare. The teachers were amazed and had to take a picture! He loves standing next to things and hates being on his belly, maybe he hates being on the gross floor and rather be closer to the action.

We celebrated Tony's birthday Thursday (Earth day), oh wait we "celebrated" by going to Red Robin. Yep, it's official we are parents and going to kid friendly places, plus Tony loves the Banzi burger. Well except for the weekend of May 15th when we headed to Chicago to see a Cubs game at Wrigley field. That is what Tony got for his birthday. Of course we are spending the night conveniently on Michigan Ave so we can go shopping the next day!! I got him (us) tickets behind first base in the first row. I thought if I was going to a baseball game we might as well be as close as possible. May even catch a foul ball.


We are off to Portland in just a few days - we leave Thursday morning at 5:30 am. We are looking forward to seeing Kalli, Mark, Nathan, Tyler, AJ, Reese, Kurt, Gret, and Rory.

Here is another picture from daycare - Monday outside. As you can tell he loves being outside.

Finally, the semester is over!

Yes, the semester is over. This was the hardest semester yet, but with only two semesters left - four classes I am on the home stretch! No more three classes a semester. I have been done since Wednesday and enjoying every moment not worrying about homework! It's fantastic and even better I am finally getting caught up on my to do list.

This picture was taken this morning. He had just finished eating and he was whining because he likes to eat, but he was done. So I removed the tray and as he was whining I put the camera up to take a picture and he immediately stopped whining and started doing "so big!" Rory, notice he has on your favorite bib! :-) Thanks for giving that to him. We use it all the time.



This is Zander in the tub with a new toy from Aunt Teresa. He loves watching the water and lights appear. He plays with it at bath time!



Zander is enjoying the nice weather we are having. Today we sat outside supervising Tony pruning the bushes and trees. He even got some sun!


Tony and I are going on date night tonight! Zander is staying at Grandma Bonnie and Grandpa Tom's house (my Mom & Stepdad). We are going out to dinner then heading to Sun Prairie for Casey's birthday celebration at a bar with a live band. Teresa will be taking pictures as we all know I am not good at posting pictures. So check her blog in a few days to see pictures!

Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

19 days (and counting) until we go to Portland!

Happy Easter!

We hope everyone enjoyed Easter. This is Zander from daycare last week.

I will post more later this week, once I am done with the semester. (Two more days!)

Healthy little boy!

Zander had his 9 month checkup today. Everything is looking great. He is 29 inches tall and 22 pounds. Dr. Trias wanted to look in his mouth so he went to put the "stick" in his mouth and Zander clinched his mouth shut. As Dr. T tried to open his mouth he showed Dr. T how strong his jaw was!

Zander got "kicked out" of daycare yesterday afternoon for having a 100.5 temp which meant he couldn't go to daycare today. Julie (our friend and Tony's cousin) was gracious enough to watch him today. He had fun playing with Julie and watching their two cats, I keep reminding Zander-no pets in the house. :-) I think he is getting his top teeth because he is drooling and sticking out his tongue quite a bit.

Here is a picture from Zander today at Julie's, he loved playing with Julie!

Mr. Smiley at daycare

This was taken a few weeks ago at daycare, this is him crawling backwards.

This picture was taken on Tuesday this week - Zander is front left, and yes that is his tongue sticking out!

I did post (finally) on Wednesday, so scroll down for more milestones of Zander.

Where have you been?

We are back from Indianapolis– sorry for the lack of posting the past few months. Let’s get right to Zander updates, huh?!

Zander is hitting the milestones, I think each week he has a new trick!
• He has three teeth on the bottom.
• He is crawling backwards, just hasn’t figured out going forward. He really tries to stand on his own but if he grabs on to our hands he can pull himself up. He has this music table and he can stand on his own for a couple of minutes.
• He is a pro at eating table food, forget the baby food now. We haven’t found anything he doesn’t like. Guess what his favorite is – yep, chocolate. I know he is suppose to eat chocolate yet, but when have we followed any rules!
• He knows “how big are you?” then he lifts his arms. (Thanks to Grandma Bonnie, she taught him that over the weekend while we were at the Big Ten Tournament.
• He is talking a ton. He even talks when we put him down for bed. We think he is saying “Ma and Da” but that might just be our minds.
• He loves taking walks thanks to the nice weather and he loves swinging in the swing at daycare.
• Last night (Tuesday night) he made his NCAA basketball picks. I wrote the teams on a little piece of paper and put the two teams in front of him, then whichever piece he picked up was the winner of the game. So his championship game is between Georgetown and Wake Forest. Tony’s picks are Kansas State and West Virginia, mine(Kacey) are Syracuse and Duke. I had to pick Duke to keep my Mom happy!

Our vacation to Mexico a few months ago was fantastic! We were upgraded to a new resort and we were treated like celebrities. It was amazing and now I know why celebs are high maintenance - by Day 6 we were asking for everything.


I have downloaded a bunch of pictures – our vacation, Big Ten tournament and some of Mr. Zander.
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I am done with school in a few weeks so I will not be able to post until then since I have finals and papers to complete. Once this semester is over I should be able to post at least once a week, especially when Zander hit his milestones.

We go to the doctor on Wednesday so I will send a quick update on his weight/height, etc.

We booked a trip to Portland to see Kurt (my bro) and Kalli (my sister) the end of April, and yes we are taking Zander. His first flight!

Easily amused!

Here is a picture of Zander and Jackson playing, Jackson would shake the rattle and Zander would laugh. Thought you would enjoy this picture. Please notice the shirt he is wearing too! I should also let you know that Tony picked out his outfit this morning.