surfer baby...

Lily doesn't really hold her head up with her arms much. She does it like this. Hilarious! She looks like a surfer dude!

We have cereal...yum!

Lily had her first taste of baby cereal today. We found a whole grain brown rice cereal which she apparently loved. She just dove right in with her whole face! Cute!

Moms who know...

I just wanted to link to this awesome talk from the LDS Church General Conference that made me renew my committment to my family. I really don't need anything else in my life but my family, and I don't need to be focusing my time or energy anywhere else. It is sometimes trying and thankless, but also the most important, worthwhile, and fulfilling job I will ever have.

LDS Relief Society Pres. Julie Beck talk

Grateful...

So, you may or may not know about the "drama" I had with Zane's preschool teacher last year, but here is a short version. On the LAST DAY of preschool last year , his teacher told me she thought that he wasn't listening and wasn't "mature" enough for her 4 year old class. Yes, she waited until the last day (which is pretty late to try and get him in somewhere else btw). Whatever. I told her that Zane had learned all the songs, nursery rhymes, and all the letter sounds from her class. She said to me "Oh, really? I guess he is listening." DUH! Anyways if she just wants kids that will sit at a table all day and do worksheets (way too much for any 4 year old), it's not right for Zane, and she's not right for Zane.

So, I have to say HOW GRATEFUL I am that we have him in his new preschool! His teacher said to me today "Zane is REALLY smart. I just can't believe the questions he asks, it is very unusual for a boy his age". She said she only gets a couple of kids each semester like that. She said she can just see him constantly thinking.

I was so happy I just wanted to cry. Woohoo! A teacher that really appreciates him. A teacher that really has taken the time to get to know him and see him for the amazing kid he really is. Yay!

4 months old

Lily had her 4 month appt. today. She's actually 4 1/2 months. She is 27 inches tall, and 17 pounds! Wow.

The Dr. loves to see her. He doesn't get to see many chubby babies lately. He said she is one of his only babies in the 90+%. He kept saying "are you sure she only eats breastmilk". Also "aww, she has back fat" and "even her feet are chubby". Hahaha!

We love our michelin man baby girl.

Perfectionist...

So when I went to pick Zane up from preschool today, he was sitting down at a table with the teacher while she was "helping" him finish a project. He was cutting something out with scissors. He is still not perfect with scissors (what 4 year old is?) but he has this inate perfectionist that just comes out.

The teacher said to me, "yeah this is his third one, he's a little bit of a perfectionist". Ha, tell me something I don't know. Then she says, "and he gets easily frustrated, that's going to be hard for him when he gets in school." HAHA. Really, tell me something I don't know. She says "I told him it's just practice, that he doesn't have to be able to cut right on the lines." Yes, but this is Zane. Zane won't color because he knows he can't color in the lines. So, he prefers to just not do it at all because it wouldn't be acceptable to him.

This is the kid that when they roasted hot dogs at preschool, couldn't eat his because it was "Frickin' burned". His words, not mine.

We have to turn this power into good....what a job we have ahead of us...

our crew

My junk food vacuum I call Zane...

Ok, so I don't buy junk food crap very often, and this is why....

Zane. He loves loves yogurt. Few weeks ago, I bought an 8 count package of "yogurt slurpy innertubes", otherwise known as Gogurts, down at the Walmart. By the end of the day, all gone. No kidding, he ate all 8. He really isn't that unsupervised - which means he can eat really fast.

Well about a week later, I caved to his whining at the store and bought some Zingers (twinkies covered in frosting...really healthy). It was morning and Zane was buggin buggin buggin for one. I told him he could have one after lunch. So, he has ONE after lunch. Somehow by dinner time, he has eaten 5 more! Yes, 6 Zingers in one day. Can you say sugar rush?

Today (about 2 weeks after the Zingers incident) - I bought a pack of pop-tarts. Now, honestly, I bought these for me. Lately I have not been getting to breakfast, so I thought at least I could grab one of them, and it would be SOMETHING (ok maybe nothing is better). I purposely hid them so he wouldn't see them, because I know of this problem he has with impulse control. But I ended up making one in his sight, so I had to give him one. I thought I hid them again well enough, but apparently not. The pack of 8 is now down to 1. So that means he ate 6 pop-tarts today. Yup, 6. SICK!

I'm afraid I need to put a lock on the pantry and fridge.

More from the one-liner master

Ok, so yesterday Zane was with us at our church choir practice. After it was over, he went over to the pianist and was playing songs for her (fur elise...yes he can play the first part of that...and his "major and minor scales" - i have an amazing 4 year old I know).
Our pianist is a sweet 80+ year old woman. When he was done playing with her, he touched her arm and said "You are FLOPPY". HAHAHAHA.
I was on my way out the door when I heard this and just LAUGHED my HEAD off the whole way down the hall.