Kelsey Overload!

Here are a lot of pictures and 2 video's of Miss Kelsey! Hope you are ready:) She is now 7months old and just a joy! She is working on improving her army crawl and is just now starting on baby foods. So far her favorites are sweet potatoes and peaches:) She also enjoyed gumming on an apple core too the other day! We haven't weighed her or measured her yet, but when we do i'll update this post.
Here she's trying to get out of the bumbo
Its so nice when he loves on her:)
First bites!
working on crawling


Zach wanted in on the photo shoot and insisted her hood be up!

Here is a video of Kelsey doing her army crawl


This one is of Kelsey the musician:)

Video's from Imagination Station

This is a short video of the Funny House. You can see how sideways it really is towards the end. Zach thought it was really silly trying to walk around in this house.


This is where Zach and daddy had fun playing in the water...Daddy did the building and Zach had fun filling and dumping and just getting wet.




This is a funny video of Zach and daddy in side the wind station. There was a setting for gale force winds, tropical storm winds and then hurricane winds. It went up to 95MPH!!! Zach thought this was the greatest thing! We couldn't get him to leave!

Imagination Station

On Saturday we went up to Toledo go to visit the Imagination Station(COSI). Zach had a great time and has already asked to go back!

Zach was obsessed with the firetruck! They had a fire hose you could aim and put out the fire on the roof of the building near the firetruck...Zach needed a bit of help, but did pretty good himself. Here they are:

The water area was great! There was a big sailboat filled with water and more sailboats that had air blowing out of it to simulate the air needed to sail. Zach thought this was pretty cool.
This was a table filled with water that flowed downstream. The kids could move pieces of plastic to change the flow of water. There were rubber duckies too that they could play with and get from the top of the table down to the bottom.
This was another water table that daddy and Zach had lots of fun in...You take the plastic tubes and joints and can make all sorts of funny designs and ways for the water to move through. Daddy did most of the building and Zach did most of the filling/dumping of water from cups.

Zach was hilarious inside the little grocery store. He only wanted hot dogs(all of them) and cheese in his cart! We finally convinced him he needed some bread too-which he thought was real! We caught him almost licking it!!!! EW! Eric and I were just cracking up while he was in there:)

There was also a little mock hospital/Dr's office. Zach was interested in what was going on in there, but was a bit overwhelmed as there were lots of bossy girls inside;) There was an ambulance the kids could drive, crutches to try out and could even learn how to read XRay's! There also was a tree house the kids could climb up into and then slide down out of. Lots of bins filled with different types/kinds of blocks to build.

Downstairs was more geared towards kids older than Zach...but they did have some neat magnets you could stick stuff to. There happened to be a domino building session going on...Zach was much more interested in watching the domino's fall down than he was in watching them being set up:)

I will work on getting some of the video we took up here too!

Birthday!

I'm finally getting around to posting pictures from Zach's birthday party....He had a great Dr's appt and now weighs 32lbs and is 38in tall! He did real great while getting a shot too(I got him all caught up on his MMR)only crying for just a little bit!

Here are some pictures from his John Deere birthday party!

this is the cultivator that goes with his new big tractor! He said "its what i always wanted!"

Uncle Matt cuddling with Kelsey and enjoying the party
The brownie cake...Daddy drew the tractor:)

Birthday boy!
He was so excited to have everyone sing happy birthday to him...we had to sing twice!!
Trying out his new John Deere riding tractor!! He was beyond excited about it:)
and after everyone had left the party...we had some fun with our new Wii...Here everyone is playing MarioKart...Zach was helping Uncle Matt drive:)

Birthday Boy!

Happy 3rd Birthday Zachary!!! Your dad and I can't believe its been 3 years since you were born! It seems like just yesterday I had come home from working early that Friday morning. I was sitting down to check my email and my favorite sites online when my water broke! Sure enough it was the same weekend that Nana,Papa, Natalie,Matt and Rachel were all headed down to Texas for a wedding. Thank goodness that Grammy and Grampy were around to keep us company at the hospital! Aunt Amy was also so very kind and flew home right away as soon as she knew you were going to be born! She didn't want to miss seeing you:) It was a long and rough day, but your grand appearance at 1:14am Saturday January 13th was all worth it! Our lives were forever changed! Not a day has gone by that you haven't amazed us! Thank you Zachary for choosing us to be your parents! We love you so very much!

Seems like just yesterday he was this small!

While watching tv this morning....one of the characters asked the audience "what do you want to be when you grow up?"

Zach's response:

"ARRRRGH Matey's! I'm gonna be a Pirate and take all your treasure!"

HAHAHA!

6 months!

Miss Kelsey is 6 months old today!! We go for her check up later this month so i'll update again. I have a few photo's to put up too....need to get them off the camera first...check back! ETA: Kelsey weighs 15lbs 6oz and is 25in long.

Updated with new photos!!!




And this one is just too cute to not post! I was out in the living room and wondered where Eric and Kelsey went...I guess Eric had mumbled something about getting ready for bed...So i headed into the bedroom and started cracking up!! They were both in bed watching football!!!