Anniversary

One year ago today, we got our courtdate. Ahh... what a day that was. Of course, that also means that it was a year ago that Jake and I had the infamous, "dojo incident". (You'll have to go back and read the March 24, 2008 entry).

A year later, I'm still messing with paperwork. Yesterday, I was in the Social Security office trying to get Zac's SS#. I've come to love government offices over the past 2 years....

Mr. Story Teller

I was sitting around (facebooking) this morning, and just pointed the camera at Zac and told him to tell a story. This is what he came up with. I thought it was pretty cute. (As is everything he does)

A year ago.

As I continue to ponder how to end this blog, I've been spending a lot of time going back and reading old posts. It's really quite fun. (for me anyway).

I'm looking back a year ago, and I'm seeing that exactly one year ago we were FREAKING out waiting for our courtdate. ugh. I'm so happy to have that chapter of my life over. It certainly was a character building time in my life, but... it was still pretty rough.

If I haven't said it lately, I LOVE ZAC! He's so much fun. Yesterday we were at a friend's house and he was a bit miffed at the other kid for taking his pretend lollipop. (that was my nice way for saying that he was being a bratty 3 year old). Anyway, I told him, "Zac maybe you can go find a different piece of pretend food to play with" whereupon he said, "I'll go find something else that's delicious!" It was funny to hear him use the word "delicious".

Oh! While I'm thinking about it, I thought of another good quotable from Zac. About a week ago I was talking to Hallie and I must have used the word "dude". Zac quickly corrected me by saying, "Dad, girls are not dudes! Girls are chicks!"

Love it.

Quotables

Zac has come up with some good quotes this past week:

1. "Kiss my furry butt!" I'm 99% sure this came from watching Alvin and the Chipmunks. Nevertheless, it caught me off guard. Furry?

2. "I want a Super man wiener!" This one was detailed in Katie's blog. Basically, I was informing Zac that he was putting on his Super man underwear backwards when he asked, "Why does Super Man go on my booty? I want a superman wiener!"

3. "Fire in the Hole!" He says this one with quite regularity. It's pretty much his war cry.

Pinch man

Growing

The other day at pre-school, Jake had "Hawaii Days". Katie helped volunteer for this event and as a result, Zac got to participate. The cool part was that Zac was actually better behaved than some of the pre-school kids. (Zac will start pre-school next year). Katie and I continue to be amazed as to how well-behaved and smart Zac is. I have no doubts that he'll do great in school.

I thought this picture below was a bit funny as you may notice Jake as the tallest in the class and Zac as the shortest in the class. Don't be fooled though. In a brotherly battle, Zac is most often the one that comes out on top. He's a freakishly strong little dude!

Boy story

No pictures tonight.  Go ahead and read the following story and you'll get a better idea as to WHY I will not be posting any pictures tonight.  

Life with two boys:

Tonight, I overheard Katie yelling at the boys, "Hey!  Don't put toys in your private parts!"  

Naturally, this caused me to look up from what I was doing.  Out of the corner of my eye, I spotted one of my boys running down the hall, naked, with a toy giraffe protruding from his butt crack.  Within another 3 seconds, the other boy was close behind.  Emerging from his butt, was a Yak... I believe.  

That's pretty much where the story ends.  Shortly thereafter, Katie had both boys (and the animals) soaking in the tub.  

NOTE TO OUR LOCAL FRIENDS WHO HANG OUT AT OUR HOUSE:  You may not want to let your kids play with our Fisher Price Animals.... ever again.