Mohawk

You know how cute a little kid Mohawk is right after a bath? Guess what, in the morning after the hair has dried that cute Mohawk looks crazy and no amount of combing will make it look tame.

Here is your proof incase you don't believe me...

Daddy's boy

Zach loves his dada. Matt is already gone for work when we get up and every morning there is a car that goes by about the time I'm sitting Zach down for breakfast. Every morning Zach waves to the car and says 'bye bye dada'. It is too cute. Matt did say he was glad he never saw it because he wouldn't be able to leave then. Z also takes after his dada with his love of bacon (I'm not a bacon fan to the shock of my family). Zach is such a good eater we figured he would eat bacon, but didn't anticipate his cookie monster like behavior.

Me eat all the bacon...nom nom....

Success and failure

I had a major success and a major failure all in the course of one lunch. The good first. I learned if you hide things in a quesadilla Zach will eat it. Beans on their own were rejected, beans in a quesadilla delicious. Score one for team vegetable and team mommy. While I was busy patting myself on the back I failed to notice Zach tossing pieces of said lunch to the dog. I heard frantic dog feet and toddler giggles and knew it was trouble. Lunch fail. Even if Zach likes something, it is way more fun to feed half to the dog...crap...

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!  We had a photo shoot with Zach in his costume before the weather turned crazy.  He is the cutest tiger I've ever seen, but I may be a little biased.  I promise he does smile....I swear he is boggled by the camera and always gives it the stink eye trying to figure it out.

I would like to point out that this pose was not prompted in anyway.....dear lord help us for what the future may bring with this ham....

Thug life

It may seem like we live in an innocent little farm town, but clearly it's hard out here on the streets...

Potty or cup?

We received a toddler potty from our neighbor that got it for his grandkids and never even opened the box.  It has been sitting on the shelf for many months.  Well, I decided we would bust out the potty and sit it in the bathroom so Zach can get used to its presence.  He doesn't miss a beat and has been more interested in the bathroom....aka no one in this house pees alone.  I also learned he will sit on the potty so I can actually pee without yelling at Zach to stop climbing the stairs or playing with the oven knobs, it was a win win.  Well, almost a win win.  This particular potty has a cup that catches the stuff that just lifts out the top.  Zach has figured out how to lift out the cup and pretends to drink out of it, complete with an ahhh after like it was so refreshing.  It is important to note there has never actually been any pee or poo in the potty, but anyway you look at it, it's gross.  We're going to search for a new potty that apparently locks in the pee so no one can drink it.  I'll add this to the list of weird stay at home mom problems.

Realistically...

We were relaxing before bedtime, watching Thomas the Train. For those who aren't subject to the torture of Thomas he is a talking steam engine. I loathe this cartoon, Zach loves this cartoon. So all the trains can talk to each other, there are talking cars and helicopters, and there's a guy in charge who is always cross. Don't worry, they've kept up with the times by throwing in a train rap at times...did I mention I hate this...

So this particular gem of an episode has a bus get stuck on a bridge and a helicopter flies in to pick up the bus and save the day. Matt's response, " I mean come on, realistically that helicopter could not lift that bus". Oh to be an engineer. Talking trains fine, inaccurate use math unacceptable.