The kid is nuts...

We have heard it before but I honestly think that Zachary is going to kill himself! The kid has no fear and feels no pain. This morning by 8:45 he had fell off of the couch directly on his head, fell off of the lay-z-boy and hit the end table on his way down and fell off one of the kitchen chairs, after all this he then climbed up onto the kitchen table and crawled across it to get Alex's food (which in turn made Alex dump his milk all over of course). So he got sent to his room for that. After I let him out he ran right into Alex's room and proceeded to try and pull the Super Nintendo from the wall and the TV then came out and climbed right back up on the kitchen chair... For which I promptly got mad at him and that is when he cried the hardest. I was like "are you kidding me???" The child makes me a nervous wreck! We have an entire house full of toys but no... he has to be climbing on something or into something to be happy. Alex went through a phase where he liked to climb up on the couch but after falling off several times and getting in trouble several times he eventually figured it out or got through that phase. I mean sure I have to remind him that we don't run on the couch and we don't stand on the arms but that is to be expected. I am so ready for the snow to melt and to be able to get the kids outside! Of course then there is a whole new world for Zach to get in trouble in and the kid hates to wear shoes so he will have to get over that really quick.

As much as Zach makes me crazy some times the kid loves to help.

This was a week or so ago unfortunately I missed the part where he had both the broom and the dust pan. (I do have to add a disclaimer... I don't normally let him run around in just a diaper but he was such a mess after eating that it was easier to just take his clothes off.) The other day I was making the bed and he was helping me by handing me the pillows and the blankets and after he would hand it too me before I could say "thank you" he would say "tanks!"

February

I'm not feeling 100% this morning but I keep forgetting to post this so I wanted to hurry and do it while I was thinking about it. These are the first two calendar pages/desktops I have made I am doing it as it comes because I didn't have time to get it done before the new year.

Biting

Okay first I just have to say that the word biting just looks completely wrong to me, I had to look it up to make sure that was the correct spelling. Zach is a biter... and he usual victim.. Alex. I need to see if I can get Alex to hold still long enough so that I can take pictures because you wouldn't believe it unless you saw it. On Wednesday morning the were wrestling and Zach got Alex's chin so from just below Alex's lip to his chin and then under his jaw up to his chin he has this two big scrapes. Then yesterday morning Zach got Alex's hand right on the knuckle so he has a 'U' shaped bruise on his hand. This morning I caught Zach in time to keep him from biting Alex's finger. The problem right now is he is teething and rather then chew on the 20 teething toys we have he would rather bite Alex. I am already dreading Nursery... my child is going to be the kid that bites everyone. He does it out of frustration too... Oh well everyone has their quirks I guess.

Update

We are still in the land of the living! I am just in this "just make it through each day" mode. I finally got a bunch of Alex's preschool projects scanned in (the basement is just so cold!) so I will post a few of them. As I was scanning them I can't help but think of how proud I am on Alex, he is so smart! He knows all of his letters now (something I was really worried about before he started preschool because he just didn't seem to get them and he had picked up numbers SO quickly). He loves to "read" letters off of everything. Signs, shirts, bottles anything. He is really cute with stop signs, and I know a lot of other kids do this but it's always exciting when it's your child, he says " S-T-O-P, stop!" He is trying to learn "left and right" so we work with him on that when we are driving or in the store, he will say "which way" then we will point and say either left or right or straight depending on which way we are going. He knows exactly how to get to his preschool and which house it is.

Zachary is growing like a weed and is really getting into climbing. This morning he figured out that if he pushes against the tub he can get on the toilet and then into everything on the shelf and counter. He has a Fisher-Price incrediblock "cube" that is probably 18" tall and he climbs up on it all the time. He is so good at climbing I should probably take our gate down and let him climb up and down the stairs but he is to smart for his own good knowing him he will try and "walk" down the stairs. I know we eventually just took it down with Alex and he did fine but I am so scared to do it with Zach and I don't know why. He will eat absolutely anything (including the cat food...) and I hope that he will keep that! Alex is such a picky eater it makes it hard sometimes to feed but it is a battle that I gave up on a long time ago.

So there is an update for you and here are a few of Alex's preschool projects...

Random

Sorry I haven't posted for a while I apparently haven't taken any pictures either. Just a few random things this morning. I don't know about the rest of you but trimming fingernails and toenails around here is like a full blow wrestling match. Even with Alex, he is getting better about letting me cut his finger nail but he hates his toenails cut.

Alex has been cracking me up this morning. He is starting to use phrases that Shawn and I use with him or that he is picking up from Primary and Preschool (speaking of primary this was Alex's second week and he seems to love it thankfully) This morning he said "Will you do me a favor" to me which is something I say to him all the time. Then I was trying to get Zach laid down for a nap and Alex had been jabbering at me and I wasn't fully paying attention to me and he said "I'm trying to talk to you!" He pulls out these phrases and you just can't help but laugh. Of course I am sure that will come back to bite me as well!