From Crawling to Standing

No pictures yet, but within the last two days, Zach has mastered crawling on all fours (as opposed to the wave motion he was using before). Today I got a call from daycare saying that he pulled himself up on the toy box and stood with support. I went over and he demonstrateed a number of times for me. He was so proud of himself! Guess this weekend is going to be spent securing all our furniture and breakables!

I'll post pictures/video soon!

Early Sunday Morning

Zach decided to sleep until 5 today (he's lately been getting up at 4, so this was a nice change). Unfortunately, he was very upset for some reason and cried for an hour before we were able to calm him down. Anyone who's been around Zach knows how unusual this is for him. Once he was content, he spent some time playing with his toys in his playyard while I was making him some breakfast. You'd never know that 15 minutes earlier he was screaming at the top of his lungs.

Another Weekend, Another Party

We had a great time at Hillary, Scott, and Sammy's Final Four party last night. Zach was a real trooper, smiling at everyone and scooting around the floor. He was especially found of grabbing on to Hillary and Scott's shag rug.

When it came time to sleep, I put him in the Ergo (which is the best baby carrier EVER -- http://www.ergobabycarriers.com/) and he conked right out. And what party would be complete without Zach grabbing for a beer bottle?

Bouncing in the Jumperoo

Sorry for the massive upload of video. I finally got the right software to download/convert videos from our camera (it's a long story...).

Here's the big man, happily bouncing away and playing with his frog!

Zach Loves Peaches

Here's a little video of Zach attacking a frozen peach in his mesh feeder. You'd be amazed how little of the peach was left when when he was through with it. D loved this video too, and made a special request that I post it.

In Honor of D -- The Baby Bucket

My good friend Darren came to visit the other week and loved this video of Zach splashing in his "baby bucket". We took this video after our Valentine's Day art project, when Zach covered himself in paint. Enjoy, D! (BTW, you can hear in the background how funny Jason thought it was.)

Happy Baby

I realized this morning that I need to take pictures of Zach at times when he is not eating. I'll start tomorrow. ;)

The Sweet Potato Debacle

I make as much of Zach's food that I can, and I decided the other night to thicken his sweet potatoes to get him ready for finger food. As you can see from the pictures, Zach didn't like it at all. He would either grab the spoon and smear it all over his face, or spit it out and smear it all over his face.