Lucky Aunt Jen!!

We received this week's Sports Illustrated on Wednesday. Zachary grabbed it and said, "Mommy, wook, it's Unkie Dan!!!!"

Gotcha

In our kitchen, we have three strategically-placed child-proof locks on a few of our cabinets. They are supposed to look like this when properly assembled:

But when your two-year old has intense determination, a freakishly long attention span, as well as some...uh..."tendencies," you might walk into your kitchen and feel mildly disturbed at this:

Silent Mockery. It's more disturbing than you'd think!

At her leisure

Yes, Allie is a laid-back baby girl. We thought Zachary was easy, but it seems Allie is even more easy-going than he was. At times, this laid-back-ness makes mommy & daddy (well, really just mommy) a little C-R-A-Z-Y.
For example, in the morning, when it's time to eat, Allie may decide she's not quite ready to eat. (Even though it is 8:30 am, and the last time she ate was 8:30 pm...wouldn't you think she'd be hungry?) And maybe Allie just wants to hang out for a little bit and THEN have her bottle. Or maybe Allie will just drink 1 oz and relax for a few minutes. Or maybe Allie just wants to chew on the bottle for a little while before drinking. Or maybe Allie just wants to have her fruit & oatmeal before the bottle. But then maybe she changed her mind and needs to rest again. Or maybe Allie wants to blow bubbles with her baby food and relax a little. Or maybe Allie needs a little sip of her bottle in the middle of the cereal time. Or maybe she needs to fill her diaper (because, this calorie-burning morning has just been so exhausting!). But maybe now she's ready for the bottle (since it's been out for almost 2 hours & has expired)...

Just another day

Dear Friends,
Today I had a pretty good day.
I started a bucket collection of "all things boy,"

including a live frog, dead wasp, and a not-ripe green tomato (Mom said I wasn't supposed to pick it just yet, but it seemed ready to me!).

Mom also told me I couldn't fill the bucket with water because the frog might not like water (Why wouldn't a frog like water?), so I decided I'd just use the hose to cool off a little.

My favorite part of today was this super cool bug house that my new friend Mr. OrkinMan laid out for me. After he explained to mom that it was "chemical free" and "non-toxic" (whatever that means), she agreed to let him place one in our garage. He said something about it being coated with something sticky. I thought it sounded really interesting. I know this is especially for me because my bugs LOVE to hang out in it.

In fact, they never even try to run away from me when I open the top to check on them! They must really like it!

And because I love my mommy so much, I even picked some pretty purple blooms for her and lined them up on the driveway. What a fun day it was!

Well, I have to go to bed now. I'll write more later.
Love,
Zachary

Olympic Swimming...

...through the eyes of a 2-year old:
(The following are exact quotes. In Zacharese, of course!)

"She's blowin' bubbles!":
"Ders Unkie Dan!":

"Weady, set GO!":

"Ders Mommy!":

"Dey are so happy!":

"The gurls won the prize!":

"He's not wearing his gwasses!":

"Wook at that fwag on his hat!":

"Look, dey are yelling!"

We've been watching a lot of Olympic coverage, because of TIVO. This has been so great! For the past two days, Zachary says, "Mommy, watch the pool?" and I keep replaying the same swimming races over the past week. He LOVES it. (Side note...Sports Illustrated gets full credit for all the pictures.)