Nine Months Old!

Here is Zach's Nine Month picture. I had the paper by him, he was posing and had a really cute smile.. and the battery was dead in the camera. So I hurried and grabbed the second battery (which we have for this very reason) but he had already moved (of course!). So I had to take some "action shots", and yet again I never seems to catch his actual smile. He does have one I promise!



Alex is still doing really well in preschool (YEA!) this week they are studying "D" so yesterday he brought home a dinosaur and they had homemade doughnuts.

Two Peas in a Pod

We put the boys in the tub together for the first time the other night. Alex thought it was great! Zach was indifferent, but it kept him from crawling all over the place so that was nice. So of course we had to snap a picture to remember the event!

Green

The other night Alex had been coloring with his markers and apparently the lids didn't get put back on all the way before Zach found them. This picture just sums it up.

He looked like he had a "Frenchman's mustache" and the look he has on his face goes so well with it.

Lather Rinse Repeat

Do you ever feel like you are stuck in "repeat mode?" I am totally feeling like that this morning! No wonder I can't remember what day of the week it is, because every day is the same as the day before. It's almost getting predictable, no it is predictable! Right down to what the boys will fight about and when. Even the cats are stuck in repeat mode, I seem to let them out at the same time every morning and I know that within five minutes that Chloee will want to come back in, then the other two will come back in when the kids start lining up for the bus. I could go on with that but it is really rather tedious. I feel like a doorman for the cats! But I digress... I guess we have a "routine" but it just seems more like deja vu. The same shows on TV, the same breakfast the same rush to get everyone diapered and dressed so that I can finally sit down to get some work done. Time just marches quickly along and I trudge along in our "routine". To quote my mother "there just isn't enough hours in the day!" You would think with the same things happening day in and day out I could figure out a way to have more time! I complain about the monotony but honestly when something happens to change my routine it completely throws me off. Oh well I will just continue to lather rinse and repeat!

On a side note here is Alex's "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" coconut tree. (For those of you who don't know what Chicka Chicka Boom Boom is it's a book about all the letters of the alphabet climbing up a coconut tree. We don't have this book but one of Alex's friends does, so it took me a minute to realize why there were letters on the tree...)

Woo Hoo!

Alex had another really good day at preschool. He didn't cry at all, he went right over and put on his paint smock and he painted! So I am excited. I know it is an environment that he will thrive in that if he just lets himself relax he will enjoy it. He made a "coconut tree" that I will scan and post when the glue dries.