10 Months

Here is Zac at 10 months.

This kid is a crack up.  He has such a strong personality already.

Things Zac likes:

• His mommy and daddy of course.  When Jer comes home from work Zac just wants him.  When I go to get him out of his crib, or if he is hanging with the sitter and sees me, he just gives the biggest grin.
• Fruit.  This kid loves fruit, as long as it is in a baby food container.  Don't you dare give him the real thing.
• Jerky.  Yes you read that right.  He loves to suck on jerky.  Really, anything Jer is eating, he wants to eat too.
• The Little Blue Truck.  It is his favorite book.  That and Hop on Pop and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
• Baths.  Still loves these.
• Being naked.  Yup.  Naked.   Is this a little boy thing?
• Walks in the stroller
• Noise.  He loves to bang on things...the more noise, the better (must be Jer's kid)
• Baby Einstein's - Baby Noah
• Ozzy
• Shoes and cords.  He likes to eat shoes.  All shoes must be kept behind closed doors for this purpose.
• Looking out the window.  Loves to see new things.
• Being tossed and flipped around by dad (mom is not strong enough)
• Yogart
• Being outside
• His bed

Things Zac hates:

• Getting his diaper changed
• Vegetables
• When people walk away from him...melt down guaranteed
• Sitting still
• The first 5 seconds of being in his car seat

I know there are more things that he hates, but I cannot think of them right now.

Here are a few more recent pics of Zac.

Sleeping with Dad after waking up at 6am.  

Ozzy...ALWAYS around during meal times.

Today in Zac History

So this morning, Zac decided "Hey.  Today, I am going to start walking".

He started cruising the furniture a few weeks ago, and last week started cutting the corners between the couches.  We tried to see if he could walk between Jer and I, but we were pretty close together so it was more of a graceful fall than walking, so we didn't think he was that close.

It was closer than we thought.  This morning, he walked a good 3 feet with Jer (I didn't see this), then at church, I was holding him while he was standing and he let go of my hand an walked from one side of the isle to the other.  I wanted to stop sacrament meeting and just yell out "did everybody see that!!!".  A little bit later he walked a good 8 feet on his own.  And has just been alternating between walking and crawling the rest of the day!!!

This is crazy!!! I wanted to get this documented so that I would remember...today May 22 2011, my son at age 10.5 months is walking.

Here is a video for your enjoyment.

A Couple More Pics

 Zac decided he was busting out of this joint and took his walker to the streets. 

 Made for very dirty feet.

 Zac likes to hang with dad.  It is one of his favorite things to do.

No, this is not San Antonio!  We were in UT in February and we thought Zac needed to experience snow.  He didn't really mind it at first, and then he was cold....of course we don't have any winter clothes for him, that could have been part of the problem.

Jer is 30

So Jer turned the big 3-0 last week.

He got his windows tinted...something he has wanted for YEARS.  They are so dark.  I got the darkest you could legally go.  Now Jer is totally Gangsta!

We went out to dinner twice.  Once just the 2 of us, and the the second time with our friends the Ashmore's.

So with all of that Jer figured that was how his birthday was being celebrated.  Little did he know, that I had a surprise party planned for him on Friday.

We had the party at a park (mostly because I didn't want all of the people in my house, nothing for all the kids to do).  The trick was getting Jer to the park.  The day before I mentioned to him that Zac and I had gone to this park and there was a swing there that was really cool and that Zac had a blast on it so I wanted to take Jer there to see it.

Friday came, and Jer spent most of the day doing yard work.  I had to get him out of the house by 5:30 so people could come and get the grill and some of the supplies I had hidden away.  At 4:45, Jer was still going strong on yard work.  Thankfully, little man was up from his afternoon nap and getting frisky, so I was able to use him as my excuse to stop yard work and get us out of the house.

On the way to the park, Jer wanted to stop and get a Mtn. Dew, but I wouldn't stop because we needed to get to the party.  He was starting to think things were a little strange.  We get to the park and I park the car in from of one of our friends trucks.  Jer not realizing this was their truck says to me "you are going to block this car in", right past the truck is the pavilion full of our friends that Jer didn't even notice.  So I just looked at him and said "happy birthday" and pointed towards the pavilion.  He saw all the people and was surprised and happy.

We had a good time.  Fried up some burgers and hot dogs.  I got Jer a cake, but forgot to bring candles...so we improvised.

Happy 30th Old Man!

More of the faces (and hair) of Zac



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