Zander Photo book 2009-2010

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Maddox and Zander

Time flies when you are having fun!

Here are updates of the boys:
-Maddox is in the Giraffe Room at school and loves everyday.  Ms. Amber and Ms. Betsy remind me everyday what a good baby he is.  They love cuddling with him.  We take Maddox to his classroom first and Zander has to say goodbye to Maddox before leaving and he tells him to be a good boy.   On Wednesday Ms.Betsy took Maddox to visit Zander and Z was too cool to stop playing with his friends to say hi to him.  Typical boy!
-Maddox is smiling and cooing all the time.  He loves to sit and watch Zander play - laughing and trying to talk to him.

-Zander is officially potty trained, even through the night!!  So we decided to take back a box of diapers to the store, he was excited to tell the cashier that he was a big boy and wears underwear now! 
-The first time we put underwear on him, he wanted to see himself in the mirror so he went into our room and looked at the full length mirror with his Superman undies.  It was hilarious!
-Zander continues to love trucks, tractors, cars, dinosaurs, etc. 
- He has really adjusted well to being a big brother.  He calls Maddox "little buddy"

The boys hanging out - 1st week home from the Hospital

1 month birthday!

Zander and Maddox playing!

 Maddox's first smile.

 1st day of school for Maddox - April 2nd

Dressed up for Easter in a tie.

Zander pushing Maddox around in his dump truck.

Celebrating Tony's birthday (Earth Day) at the zoo with our good friends - Dan, Liz and Landon.
Best of friends - Landon and Zander.  Watch out for these two in 10 years!

Zander holding his brother.

Zander dressed up as an astronaut at school. 

Maddox has arrived!

Here are some pictures of Maddox and Zander - both are adjusting well to life! Zander loves kissing baby Maddox then he moves on to playing with trucks or wrestling with Tony. Maddox is eating, sleeping and pooping well. I am recovering - I had a scheduled c-section which was by far better than the first delivery. My Mom has been staying with us since I can't go down stairs, drive or lift Maddox.

Maddox's stats:
Born on Monday January 9th at 8:52 am
6 lbs 15 ozs
18.5 inches long

Trick or Treat!

Updates on Zander:

• Zander loves all boy stuff – trucks, cars, tractors, trains, wrestling, racing.. I guess I need to get use to not playing dress up or going shopping with the boys.
• Zander can count to 10 – each time he walks down the stairs he counts each step. At the end he jumps off and says “yay!
• He has been upgraded to a big boy bed ( twin bed) and we moved him downstairs. Last night (Saturday) was his first night. I was a bit nervous since he is such a good sleeper, but he slept through the night. Slept in until 7:30, he is usually up about 6:00. He loves his bed. The room is not finished once it’s painted and decorated I will take pictures.
• He is going to be a giraffe for Halloween. We are teaching him to say “trick or treat” but he thinks we are asking him which one, so he keeps saying “treat” – of course! It’s quite funny.

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We are heading to Portland next week to visit Kurt, Gret, Rory, Mark, Kalli, Nathan, Tyler, AJ and Reese. We are looking forward to seeing all of them. Zander is excited to fly on a big airplane to play with five boys.

Maddox is doing well, growing and moving around a lot. He has found my ribs just like Zander did – so I am enjoying the punches in the ribs. We have our c-section scheduled for January 9^th at 8:30 am. So unless he comes early we are planning for a January 9^th baby! I hope the next three months go by fast.

Tony and I will be dressing up for Halloween as Jersey Shore – Snooki and the Situation! We are going with eight friends so watch out for the Jersey Shore group!

In case you missed Midnight Madness last weekend, College Basketball has officially started! Games begin next week!! Go Hoosiers!

Where did the time go - Zander is 2!

What has Zander been up to now that he is a toddler?

*He loves trucks, cars and sports. 100% boy.
*He is getting more verbal and getting better at telling us what he wants as well as putting two or three words together.
*He went to his first fair last weekend - Fort Fest (my hometown) and he loved riding on the kiddie rides. The carousel, cars and the cho-cho train. We didn't buy many tickets in case he didn't like it and of course he proved us wrong. He was not happy when we had to tell him we were out of tickets.
*He has moved up at school to the Elephant room, they take potty training seriously.
*He went on his first field trip last week to the new dream park in Cottage Grove. He rode on the Kids Safari bus (his daycare bus). A few weeks ago they had transportation week at school and they went outside to see the bus and Zander cried when they got close to the bus. All the teachers were prepared for him to have a melt down, but he proved us wrong by walking right up into the bus like he knew what to do! He sat with his friend Preston. I have attached a few pictures from the field trip.

Some family news - Zander is going to be a big brother. I am 12 weeks, due January 16^th. I am feeling the same as I did with Zander – sick and can only eat a few things. We tried to have date night last night which ended early due to me being sick. I am looking forward to the sickness going away. Looking back, I can’t believe I went to school three nights a week while being sick. What was I thinking?!

Best of buddies - Zander with his friend Preston. They are the early morning crew at school, they both arrive around 7 and are quite excited when they see each other.

Just a swinging.

Zander started a gang called the Cribs, as you can tell they are pretty tough.

Warning......partial nudity

He has found the candy drawer!

Zander doing his Al Bundy impression!

Zander loves tools and helping Tony, don't worry Tony's elbow is fine

Zander's first bike

"Playgirl here I come"

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!