Happy Sunday!

Red Hat

Jed thought Zane was so cute in his red hat that he had to snap a few pictures.

Snap Circuits

Jed got the coolest electronics set for his birthday.  Everybody loves playing with it, but especially Papa Steve, the family electronics guru. Pretty neat to have a toy that Grandfather and Grandson can enjoy together!

On the bed

We were just laying on the bed together.  But Zane was so cute laying there with us we had to capture the moment.

I'm on the phone!

He's a busy man with important business to accomplish.  

Or, could be that he's a 1970s disco star on the phone with his agent. 

Either way, I'm gonna kiss me a big bunch o' darling man-baby cheek today.

A Horn?

Jed was flipping out over this "pokey thing" in the back of his mouth, only on one side. I kept telling him it was just something stuck in his gums.  "NO, Mom, it is part of my mouth."  He looked at me and I saw genuine fear in his eyes.  "Mom, is it a HORN?" No, Jed, I can pretty much guarantee it is not a horn.  Finally I got him to open up and I took a look in there.  And... it's a new tooth!  He's getting a new molar!  Who knew that 6 year olds had 6 year old molars!?  So I guess all our boys are teething molars this week!

Shopping

Mommy's little helper

A Tribute to Curls

I've known for a while that we needed to cut Zane's hair.  Everyone thinks he's a girl, even when he's wearing a two-piece double breasted suit. The hair hung in his eyes and stuck to his snot and didn't look great on dry days.  But, oh, the glory of those curls!  Putting Zane to bed, his little curly head leaning into my shoulder, soft halo of curls tucked against my neck. Oh, joy!

I promised that I would cut his hair after my mom came to visit and got her turn to nuzzle those glorious soft baby ringlets.  Then I asked Michael to take a few photos so we will never forget our beautiful curly-wurly baby boy.

Sophisticate

I don't know that this post needs a caption.

Fall Evening

One of our favorite family moments is taking an evening walk after dinner in the fall.  Southwest Evansville has the most perfect fall seasons imaginable.

Jed rides his bike around and around.  His specialty is "offroading" and he's done some pretty shockingly gutsy stunts.  We went from "terrified whining" to "insanely unafraid" in the last six months.

 Zoe can ride, but she prefers to run.  And run and run and run.  I think this particular evening she must have run about a mile.

 I push the babe.

 Wheeeeeeeeee!

Smoothie Boys

December Stats

Jed's been eating like a piggy the last few days, so we decided to do some measuring.

Zoe:

40" tall (86th percentile)

33 pounds (55th percentile)

Jed:

48" tall (93rd percentile)

50 pounds (77th percentile)

Zane:

32" tall (60th percentile)

24.5 pounds (40th percentile)

You can compare this with our most recent August statistics. And you will see that Zane has apparently shrunk?  No he is just the exact same size, just 95% toddler muscle now. I did just use my own adult scale, so it is possible it isn't quite as accurate in the lower numbers.

Then we attempted to take a December kids picture, which was... typical?