"Mom and Dad welcome to the Terrible Twos"

Tonight was by far one of the worst nights in all of my mommy days. Now I love Zack with all my heart but since he was 3 months old I had him sleeping in his own bed and falling asleep on his own. He has grown to not only love his bed but he used to get excited at bedtime. Steven and I were planning on waiting until he was 2 to switch him to a toddler bed because we felt that is a good age for him to understand bedtime. As of right now he is for sure not ready for that big of a step into his toddler years. Everything was going well he was waking up at 8am then taking his normal 2 hour nap at 11am-1pm and then we would get him ready for bed with a warm bath, comfy pjs, and a book then on the dot at 8pm we would lay him down to sleep and he wouldn't make a peep (most of the time). And then yesterday happened nothing special about the day just a random day but we will remember July 19th 2010 as the day IT happened. You may be wondering what IT is well watch the video below and continue reading.....



As you can see our little Zacky has learned to successfully climb out of his crib. I must say that I am actually somewhat proud of him for this little milestone. This video shows his strength and how he has learned to do something of this measure but this is NOT a good thing. He is for sure not ready for a toddler bed. Tonight was very difficult I would lay him down and then he would climb out and come after me. I repeated this 12 times until he cried himself to sleep. I am the type of mom that believes in the cry it out method and it works for us but man. Steven and I are not used to this and it'll take some time to get used. At least after the 12th time he got the idea to stay in bed and just fall asleep. I really hope he doesn't hate me in the morning. Hopefully he doesn't wake me up by standing next to my bed in the morning. And I hope he stays in his bed all night. Let's just say the baby monitor is set to high tonight. Well I hope you enjoyed the funny video. I managed to catch him today on camera and it made my day. I am very happy our little Houdini is fast asleep now. So have a safe night and goodnight from the 3 of us.

An oldie but a goodie

This was at sometime after Christmas because as you can see Zack is still drinking from a bottle and he still looks like a baby :( but yes this is probably one of our favorite videos. Enjoy!

Friends, Development, and Play

Zack being typical Zack

They love to explore everything

Zack's first best friend Taegan loves to give him hugs

He was upset because I wouldn't give him the camera

HE loves his overalls

One of Zacks many many funny faces I call this his Elvis

Hello everyone! We have been super busy with so many things. I am taking three classes this term and Steven is working hard for the Admiral. But we are never to busy to take time during our day to play with this wonderful little bear. He is growing up so fast and we trying not to blink just in case we miss something. He says "yeah" for everything and he now knows what "no" means if we offer him some food or whatever and he doesn't want it he will put his hand up and say no. It is the cutest thing ever! I know I won't be saying that very soon about the "no" word but I am enjoying his growing vocabulary everyday. He also has been very good about diaper changes. If you tell him to lay down he will lay down in position for his diaper change. He will also do it if he knows there is something in his diaper I look it as his way of telling us he is ready to be clean. This makes us very happy because that just means he is one step closer to being potty trained. I still don't feel he is ready for that big of a step yet but Steven and I are always watching for the "signs." I was thinking about what we were doing this time last year and I cannot believe how much Zack has grown in such a short period of time. He wasn't walking yet and was still eating baby foods. Now he is running and using a fork (not at the same time). He is so smart and so full of personality he acts a little more like Steven everyday. He is just developing so well I couldn't ask for a better son. We wish we were closer to our family but I hope you enjoy Zacks pictures I will be posting some more later on today of our fun weekend we have been having. Much love
Lina

The Cavemans Cave

Well we discovered something new that Zack is absolutely happy with. A cave or a tent. He absolutely loves when we get a blanket and drape it over is farmhouse door and the couch he will hang out in there all day if he really wanted to. He prefers to spend a few minutes in the cave then destroy it completely. He is such a boy. Today my mom went home and we had a great trip with her. I will be posting pictures from that as well very soon. Have a nice day.

I am sorry

Well I just wanted to start out by saying I am sorry for all the bouncing around the web we've done. I think we needed to try webs to realize blogger is our home for all our blogging needs. The main reason were back is because yes the website was a great thing the problem was they tried to charge us for more space. So I was having to delete videos and pictures just to add more and I did not like that. With blogspot it's all free until we decide to get a domain name which won't be for a very long time. So I am sorry for this bouncing around and I hope you enjoy the new/old blog.