A Day With Lane

I thought it would be fun to walk you through a day with Lane.

He amazes us everyday with new tricks.

He starts his day eating of course.

The kid is packing it on right now. We like to call it the pre-crawl chub. Notice the yogurt all over the place, for some reason he insists on feeding it to himself.

He loves to play outside and get incredibly dirty. He is already pushing trucks and tractors like his big brother.

It is always a strait beeline for the open bathroom or staircase
Outside with a sucker.

He loves to play catch.

We like to call him 'the destroyer.' He destroys anything Zackary is trying to play with.

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He is clapping all the time.

And standing on chairs or pushing them all over the house.

And of course attacking his brother. This is just part of our day...

Lane is such a happy, social, and energetic baby. He is signing airplane, duck (he quacks with it), bird, fan, light, milk, all done, eat, and he shows his muscles.

Just wait until he puts on the muscle show for you!

Time

Just look at him, he looks like a boy. Not my sweet baby anymore. How is it that when you look at pictures and videos you realize that time has flown by right before your eyes without you even knowing. They change overnight. Each new stage is wonderful in its own way, it is all so bittersweet...

A term I seem to be using often lately.

Halloween

We had such a great Halloween this year. Boy oh boy... it just keeps getting better! We spent the day at the J2 Fall Picnic at Tumbleweed Park and got to enjoy a jumpy house, face painting, good company, and a BBQ. What a great way to spent a day outside in October.

We had some family and friends over for the evening festivities. With of course, pizza, wine, trick or treating, and some great entertainment. When I say entertainment I mean a spastic 2 year old on a SUGAR HIGH!

Snoozing

Again with our random napping, this is how we have been finding Zackary. Crashed out in the playroom, using his huge moose as a pillow, and all the toys surrounding him. I can't tell you what goes into trying to get him to go to sleep some days. We are probably creating some bad habits, but it is only a phase, right?

Happy Birthday

Today we celebrated Aaron's 31st birthday. We made an evening of it with friends, pumpkin carving, pizza, wine, and his favorite ice cream cake.

Here is the famous ice cream cake. Mint chip and chocolate cake from Baskin' Robbins, Aaron's First Love! We get it every year and we will probably never change it up. Thanks everyone for helping us celebrate.

Evening Out

Aaron and I got to have a nice evening out dressed up and all! Aaron had another awards banquet for Water Tower Park and Western Powerline Trail. The ceremony was at the Wild Horse Pass, black tie affair, wine, dinner, and desert. I'm so proud of Aaron, he won another 3 awards for these two parks. What a talented man! I love the picture of Zackary sneaking into our photo, how cute are those little puppy dog eyes.

Two proud Mommy's!

Schnepf Farms

We spent the evening at Schnepf Farms with some wonderful friends and had such a great time. This year the kids had so much fun. We went on the train, a hay ride, roller coasters, swings, saw some stinky animals in the petting zoo, had a great dinner, danced to the band, and played in a faux pumpkin patch. We finally got some good family shots together.

These are the swings I was talking about. You know the huge mechanical ones. I was watching Aaron and Zackary on this cute little bumble bee ride, it ended and I couldn't find them. I look over and Aaron is putting Zackary in the huge swing ride, ahhhh! I ran over and Zackary was so excited, not scared at all.

So then I took him on the roller coaster. He just barely made the height requirement. We were the first ones on, he got to choose any seat on the coaster...guess what the little dare devil chose! The very back seat! That's my BOY. Just like his mom. He did great on it, after he said to Aaron "I didn't like when it went down." We had to pose in front of the ride together.

Sleeping

I've been waiting for this photo for a few years now. A baby being so tired that he couldn't even stay awake to finish putting the food into his mouth. Lane was apparently so tired he just couldn't do it any longer.

Zackary trying to wake him up. He got a little eye!

Barely balancing his head up.

And OUT! About 5 seconds later he was tipped over with his head on the side of the tray. I felt so bad. He literally was putting food into his mouth, I turned around to grab a drink for him, I looked back, and he was out. Let's just say he went right to sleep in his bed.

Outside

We have been spending a lot of time outside lately. The weather is so nice, actually they can't stay inside longer than a few hours without getting too wild.

Why is it that going outside can solve any problem?

Gotta love that drool and that he is sitting on the dog!

Another Whoa Hair

It's out of control, what great bed head!

Lane's Graduation

Talk about impressive! A 10 month old baby that can float all on his own after falling in the pool! It is the most amazing thing to watch. Of course it made me almost cry just thinking that this really could happen without me being around. I just get chills thinking about how wonderful it is to know that he could survive if he were to ever fall into a pool. Maybe this will make him a great swimmer in the future.

Waving

Lane has been waving for a little while now. I finally captured it in a picture. It is so stinkin' cute. He actually has two waves. His floppy baby wave and his parade wave. No Joke he waves like he is in parade or has been taught by a pageant girl. Today he woke up hearing Aaron's truck leaving and woke up waving saying Dada. I couldn't believe it, he already knows the sound of Aaron's truck.