Boys weekend

I work every other weekend and am gone all day on Saturday and Sunday since I work 12 hour shifts. My husband calls the weekends I work as "boys weekend." He has fun playing with Zander all to himself every other Saturday, and then taking him to church on Sunday. He loves spending time with Zander. Well, he doesn't take many pictures of "boys weekend." I'm working on that part of "boys weekend."  Since I have no pictures of "boys weekend," I thought I would post a picture of me and Zander.

Zander

Celebrating

Zander and I spent the morning with my husband before he went to work at noon. Well, Zander napped some this morning as well. Then Zander and I went to my mom's house to celebrate her birthday. I had planned to take her out to lunch, but she decided she would rather have me get the food to go and bring it to her house. That was such a good idea, because I usually end up holding Zander most of the time at restaurants. He is an active boy and just wants to get down and crawl. There is a Mediterranean Restaurant by my house, and I picked up some food from there. It was so yummmy. This is my second favorite restaurant. We had such a nice time. While Zander took his afternoon nap, my mom and I played cards. Then when Zander woke up from his nap we played with him and watched him exploring his toys. He loves to play, and he is learning new things everyday about his toys and how they work. My dad came home later and brought Birthday Cake Pie home from Bakers Square. If you have a Bakers Square by you, you have to try this pie. It has a layer of french silk, a layer of yellow cake, and then cool whip/whip cream topping. It is delicious. It will only be around until the end of the month, and they have it in honor of their 40th Birthday. Go get some. Happy Birthday, Mom. I love you.

One more time

Just a few more view points of Zander's toy.  (The toy I bought for $1.)

A different view

Here is another picture of the toy Zander was playing with yesterday. 

I'm trying to take pictures from many different view points. 

Love, not Sorry

I just love my little boy.  In some ways I want to apologize for gushing so much about Zander on this blog.  But then there is a part of me that says, I shouldn't apologize, because I started this blog so I could write about my son and remember  his growing up.  I have been told that they grow up so fast.  So I want to remember it all.

So with all that being said, I'm going to gush about my son.  Here is the background.  I wasn't feeling good near the end of my shift at work.  I had a humongous headache.  At first I thought it was from one of the kids that screamed in my ear because I had to put an IV in or because I had to draw blood.  But then I thought about it and realized today was a mild day for me and the screamers.  Don't get me wrong, I had them today, but I have had much worse.  Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining about kids in the ER.  I love kids and it makes me so sad to see them sad.  I don't get upset when I get a crying baby or a screaming child.  And they have never given me a headache at work.  If anything, the beeping from our monitors give me a headache.  So, I ruled that out.  And thought hard about what could be causing my headache.  And I figured it out.  I had no caffeine today.  I had a caffeine withdrawal headache.  I am addicted to Pepsi, and drink way too much.  Well, I am trying to cut back.  I drank so much water today, and no pop, and boy did I pay for it with that headache.  All of this being said, I was tired when I went to pick Zander up.  We came home, and I wanted him to play a little before going to bed, and I was hoping he would take more of his bottle too.  I had so much fun watching him play because he was having so much fun playing with his toys.  He was loving his mailbox, and he was loving this toy too. 

Then he was having fun digging around in the bin that holds his letter blocks.  It was so cute.  But what what really made my day, was the 5 or so minutes we spent together right before he went to bed.  I laid him on his changing table to change his diaper.  I started saying "SO BiG" in a cute high pitched voice.  Well Zander thought that was the funniest thing ever.  So of course I kept doing it, and he kept laughing and laughing.  One of his cute belly laughs.  I have noticed that my son laughs at the silliest of things.  He belly laughs when his Grandma Wiersema blows her nose, when mommy teaches him how to knock down block towers and he does it over and over again.  He belly laughs at the noise mommy makes of a toy cow mooing, when mommy makes other silly noises, and when mommy says "SO BiG."  So my son's belly laugh made my day.  It is amazing that he still had a belly laugh when it was 2 hours past his bedtime and when he is teething.  Boy, I am blessed with such a sweet and happy baby boy.  God has truly blessed me and my husband immensely.  Thank you God.  I am sooo grateful.  I wanted to get it on video, but the video camera was downstairs.  I didn't want to ruin the moment, and he probably would not have done the belly laugh still by the time I got the camera. 

Okay so on a side note, I have noticed that I have written the word "SO" a lot in this post.  So What!!!!  But I am deciding to just leave it that way.  It must be my new favorite word.  HA!    

   

10 months old

Zander is 10 months old today.  I can't believe it.  The last 10 months have gone by so fast, and he is getting so big.

Zander, this is what you have been up to in the last month:

-You said your second word today, and it was hi!  You said it to your Grandpa Wiersema.

-You love to crawl all over the place.

-You love to pull up on things and walk along the furniture.

-You get into everything your not supposed to.

-You love wires of any kind.

-You go everywhere and your wearying your momma out.

-You have 6 teeth now. 

-You still wear size 3 diapers.

-You wear some 9 month clothes, but mostly wear 12 month clothes.  Your mommy puts you in 18 month clothes because you have some cute 18 month clothes.  The pants for 18 months are too long surprisingly.

-You still have mom and dad hold your bottle for you.  But you hold it occasionally and so we know you can. 

-You celebrated your first Christmas, and you were not interested in opening your presents.

-You love all of your Christmas presents, especially the mailbox that Grandma and Grandpa Meeter got you.

-You tried finger food for the first time this past month.  But you still don't eat much of it.  You still eat your baby food really well.

-You give high fives now.

-You put both hands above your head for "touchdown."

-You wave hi and bye.

-You love to be read to.

-You sleep between 12-14 hours a night, straight through (except occasionally you wake up and your mommy thinks it is because you are teething).

-You go to bed around 7 p.m. every night.

-You are teething again.  The drooling has started and you put your fingers in the back of your mouth. 

-You usually take 2 naps a day.

-You are very social and love to watch others.  You especially like the girls.  Your a ladies man boy.

-You sometimes dance to music.  Okay, you mostly just move your arms and hands.

-You love all the music and lights at Pipes and Pizza (Beggars Pizza).

-You love your cousin Jaylyn so much and squeal in delight when you see her.

Your mommy and daddy love you very much.  But your mommy is kind of sad to see you growing up so fast.  Just like the country " You're we're gonna  miss this, you're we're gonna want this back, you're we're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast."  We love you Zander and we are enjoying every minute we have with you.