We had his head examined...

I can't wait to give him all kinds of crap about that when he gets older :). Any-who, Zach had an ultrasound on his head last Friday (the doctor was concerned with his head's rapid growth). And the doctor called Monday to let us know everything was just fine. The fact that he's huge continues to come up, apparently his fontanelle (soft spot) is almost closed so the ultrasound wasn't as easy as it could have been.

In other Zach news, we are STILL awaiting the arrival of the first top tooth, this tooth has been particularly rough for everyone, hopefully once it comes in he'll be back to normal for a little bit, but he's been seriously off schedule since this process started, poor lil guy. Also, Zach's bath time has officially been transitioned to the bathtub, well, mostly. He still gets his bath in his baby tub, so he's supported, but we put it in the big bathtub. He discovered splashing on Sunday, and he does so vigorously, he kicks as hard as he can and makes the biggest splash possible, hilarious, no doubt, but SUPER messy when he's on the bathroom counter :).

In unrelated news, we had a bird almost get in the house yesterday. Those that know me well know I HATE birds, they're nasty creatures. Apparently one found it's way in our dryer vent and made it's way down the tube all the way to the dryer, not in the dryer but as close as it could get. I was walking by the laundry room and heard a commotion and summoned Brian immediately, who dealt with the bird by turning on the dryer, I saw feathers spraying out as I looked out the window, don't worry bird lovers, no harm was done, the bird escaped. Lot of freagin good the dog did on this one, he just sniffed around the dryer and went about his business.

I'll update when something else newsworthy happens ;).

No, hell hath not froze over...

This is Austin Q. Powers, our hostile pup who is nicknamed "Hannibal", LOVING Zach.

From Zach 2009 March

Austin has actually been a super good pup wrt Zach, he comes running in when Zach is upset and "presents" himself to be petted since this immediately calms down little Z. And yes folks, he allows Zach to touch him, we always said Austin loves Zach, but he doesn't like him.. I think he might be coming around to that liking thing!!

A half a year! (by Christine)

From Zach 2009 March

Wow, I can't believe that a half year has gone by so quickly! Zach is continuing to grow like a weed and each day he cracks us up with new behaviors and discoveries :). His latest is scrunching up his nose and snorting at us, it's a multi-purpose action apparently, he does it when he's happy, silly, angry, so I have no idea what he's trying to do, but he is DEFINITELY cracking us up with it.

For those interested in stats, he just visited the Dr. yesterday for his check-up. Our little giant comes in at:
28.5" (97%)
18lbs 15oz (75%)
and now his head has caught up as well 18"(90%).

His head took a big jump in the last couple months so the Dr. wants to get an ultrasound on it just to make sure everything is ok. We're not super worried though, it just seems like he got more proportional, he's a big kid!

He's consistently rolling over from back to tummy, although he HATES the result, not a fan of tummy-time. And he's only managed to roll back over from tummy to back once. He does, in fact, have 2 teeth now, his bottom 2, the latest one snuck in last Tuesday, Zach and I went to lunch with some friends and they told me had "teeth", I said, "no, he has tooth", turns out they were right, it popped through that morning! He's still loving his solids, well, the veggies anyways, he's losing interest in the rice cereal, pretty much giving me a face like I just put poo of some sort in his mouth. And no, mixing veggies in doesn't help, he takes about 2 spoonfuls of mixture and then gets ANGRY when he figures out what I'm up to!

Evidence of teeth:

From Zach 2009 March

And the result of rolling:

From Zach 2009 March

In other news, I'm off for a week (Microchip is doing a plant shutdown because of the economy), which is great, I love spending time with Zach (and Brian and Austin too :)). Zach and I are trying to take advantage of the weather with some trips to the park and walks during this week.

I'll add pictures to this post soon, still need to get them off the camera!

Zach's first baseball game

Last Sunday we went to Zach's first baseball game, a spring training game in Tempe. We got outfield lawn seats so we could just spread out on a blanket. We thought it would be easier with the stroller and everything too. We had a pretty good time, though it was a little hot. It's hard to believe it was 90 degrees already, especially since I got a text during the game from my sister saying that she was looking at over 6" of snow! :)

From Zach 2008 March

We've been keeping busy with other things for Zach too. The last few weekends we've been making some food for him. We've made a couple of batches of carrots, some sweet potatoes, and butternut squash so far. And we'll have some pears ready today too. He's liked all his veggies so far. :) We're going to start him on some peas this week. If he likes those, we'll make a batch of those next weekend.

Other notes since the last time I posted:
- We thought Zach was going to have a second tooth by now. He was really fussy last Sunday evening, and it looked like his gum was swollen. But it's not here yet.
- We went to the zoo again a couple of weeks ago. Zach didn't get to see the jaguar this time, it was in a spot that was hard to see. He liked being outside and seeing the other animals though!
- Zach met some friends a couple of weeks ago. The organizer of one of the mommy meetup groups that Christine joined had a BBQ. Zach looked like a giant compared to a couple of the kids! Of course he is wearing 12 month clothes already.
- And last but not least, Zach turns 6 months old this week! We can't believe it's been half a year already!