My Little Model

So I don't know if I am really aloud to display this photo, so please no one tell. I scanned it because a local baby contest allows professional pictures to be submitted and he is so cute in this picture. Yes, I am submitting my kid into cute contests. All I ever really wanted to be when I grew up was a pageant mom. Boy or girl, it doesn't matter, he is going to make me money. He will learn to exfoliate daily by age 2 and count carbs by age 3. And he will grow up constantly hearing the phrase "I never made it, but you will!" He will thank me for it someday.

Happy Birthday Zachary!

His birthday was shared with family and a few close friends. Thanks to Aunt Caprene for helping (doing most of the work) on his adorable Elmo cake. We learned that you need at least 2 bottles of red food coloring. By the time we finally created red, we had nothing left for orange so Elmo didn't get his orange nose. But he was still pretty cute.

While we were cutting the Elmo cake for the guests, Zach had his own cake to destroy. Unfortunately for picture sake, but good for clean up, he didn't get to into it and ate hardly any.

You can tell by his expression he wasn't feelin' like red frosting.

I took his straight to the bath for a record scrub down and then into jammy's for presents.

His two favorite gifts were a tissue box from Mom and Dad and decorated pots and pans from Aunt Caprene. She had issues with my indifference regarding his banging on my good pots, so she got him some of his own.

He is sticking tissue and a wooden spoon into Elmo's mouth. Elmo didn't mind and he said back: "Elmo's gotta get on up, get down, ah huh ah huh..."

Elmo, tissues, pots and pans. How am I going to top it next year?

Christmas in Seattle

We enjoyed a quiet Christmas morning with Grandpa and Grandma Liz.
Zach's favorite Christmas present from Santa: a holiday box of tissues. He played with it for a whole 15 minutes.

Hanging out with Grandpa.

Best friends and cousins.

Christmas Family Pictures

A neighbor was kind enough to take pictures of us and Zach for our Christmas card pictures for work and for our family. Zach enjoyed playing with all the clogs.

Why aren't mustaches still in style??

I don't mean to toot my own horn or anything, but snagged a pretty hot man. These pictures were taken today... Why aren't mustaches still in style?? Oh, wait, now I remember...because they are CREEPY!! JJ grew out his beard for a few weeks and couldn't take it anymore and shaved this morning. But to freak me out, he kept the mustache for a few hours. Gross!!!

Zach's new favorite food

Doesn't it feel great when your kid likes your cooking? He loves my spaghetti!

A penny saved...

Either my son is extremely talented and made some change, or else the ER doctor didn't measure the coin in the x-ray correctly. Thursday morning we found a penny not a nickel in his diaper.