Halloween!

My cute little sock monkey!

Wow. Halloween weekend was almost as busy as Christmas! We started it off by taking the little sock monkey to Boo at the Zoo.  With me, my mom & brother, Uncle Rico & Aunt Lindsey, and Cam & Brita,  there’s no way that Z suffered from a lack of attention. Can you imagine? The seven of us, doting on one little guy? The highlights of the night definitely included riding the train and the carousel. This was his look of amazement on the carousel. And of course, he signed for “more” as soon as it stopped!

Saturday morning Matt and I had a garage sale with the neighbors. When Zane got up, Nana dressed him in a warm monkey suit and brought him over!

 

I had to add this picture of Matt modeling some of the garage sale goodies.  He’s gonna hate me…hehehe.

Saturday night we took Zane to trick-or-trick at Uncle Rico & Aunt Lindsey’s house and had fun watching the Hogs play.

Trick-or-treat! Going through his goodies!Signing for more candy. Smart kid.

And finally, on Sunday night we took him trick-or-treating at the hospital. Well, not really. Our treat was that Mama Doot was getting discharged from the hospital, so Z met all of her nurses and made lots of folks smile. :)

We then went to see Greg & KK, Craig, Dana, & Jake, and Aunt Lynnie, whom he now calls “Nonna”. I think that might have made her day! We finished up the night eating chili with the whole crew at DeeDee & Skeet’s. He was so tired by then that he couldn’t decide if he wanted to run around and play or just crash in the floor, so he did a little of both.

  I love his little banana trick-or-treat bag!

Zane loves Jake!

Oh, I’m adding these pictures I took of him through Lindsey’s door because they make me laugh. I hope these are the only bars I ever see him behind!

twenty-two months

What I love about each picture…

My sweet twenty-two month old

The way he pokes his lips out when he says, “shushu”. Shushu=tractor. We are in a huge tractor phase!

He’s “reading” his favorite book, The Red Tractor. (and his lips again)

Those cheeks!

Sorry, but it’s those lips again!

And one more time.

I hear his laugh everytime I look at this picture. Best sound on Earth.

He’s blowing me a kiss.

He’s all boy.

He is studying that shushu book.

At 22 months, Zane is LOVING any and all things tractor! He plays with tractors, looks at tractor books, even sleeps with tractors. For some reason he calls them all “shushu”s and it’s hilarious. He’s talking a little more, but it is definitely his own little language. Example: “Eeee, ah-ha, shushu” translates to “Skeet, outside, tractor”. And that’s a command! When he looks at the tractor book, he points to pictures and says, “Lola, shushu, bah-ty (bathtime), and uh-oh”.

A few other new words: Nana (he said it a thousand times when she was here), Bob, ball, and pleeeeeease.

I think Santa may need to bring him a softer shushu. Does it get any sweeter than this?

On the Catwalk

 I shake my little toosh on the catwalk.

I’m too sexy for my hat. What you think about that?

Mini-Matt

Like father, like son. And mama needs a good pair of earplugs. It’s like he actually knows what he’s doing. Could he look more proud of himself?Why does he suddenly look fourteen? Well, except for the pacifier….I heart these boys :)

The Mysterious Pumpkin Patch

 

Believe it or not, we actually made it to the pumpkin patch this year! Last year’s attempts were unsuccessful and I was not going to get my hopes up that we would make it out there this year, but we did! Amazing. This is the first day this month that Matt and I have both been off of work and in town at the same town.

Zane told all of the animals, “Hi”.To sum up the trip, it was warm hot (my scarf was totally unnecessary other than I wanted to wear something plaid because the boys had on plaid) and there was a field….with pumpkins. Apparently the pumpkins weren’t dirty enough because Zane enjoyed throwing dirt on them.He also enjoyed rolling on and sitting on the pumpkins. He had fun and we got a big pumpkin for the front porch. :)  

twenty-one months

 

That face has ‘mischief’ written all over it.  And his body language describes him perfectly. Busy. He never stops moving. Matt said, “Zane jumps from one place to the next. And if he can’t decide where he wants to go next, he just runs in place.”  True.

  And he’s SO sweet. Like, really really sweet. He gives hugs and kisses all the time. He gives the best hugs. He hugs with his whole body and gives a “uuuhh” at the end. He gave me no less than 25 kisses on the hand today while I was pushing him in a cart through Hobby Lobby. He randomly runs up to me during the day and kisses my leg. I got so many kisses on the leg today while brushing my teeth that it left a big ole wet spot on my pants.

I noticed today that there’s a button on my oven labeled “Stop Time”. I wish that worked today. That I could stop time and he would be this sweet little boy forever. That I could hear that sweet little voice say, “Hi Mama, Hi Dada” everyday. That he would never outgrow the age where it’s okay to kiss us on the lips. 100 times a day.  

St. Simon’s Island

We decided to try a new location for vacation this year and headed to St. Simon’s Island, GA. We went the last week of August and practically had the place to ourselves. You can see that the beach is practically deserted behind Zane.

(My brother said he was watching for Uncle Bob to sail by in this picture)

While the water wasn’t quite the clear, blue water we’re used to in Florida, it was still really nice.The sand was really wet and packed, which I considered a bonus. More fun to dig in, didn’t blow all over us or really even stick to our feet!

Zane’s started a new ‘game’ while we were there. We had to pretend we were asleep and he would wake us up. Of course, we had to act totally surprised when we ‘woke up’. He would sometimes pretend he was asleep, too, but then got a little confused when we tried to ‘wake’ him up. Here’s his “asleep” face. Zane’s favorite part of the trip was getting spoiled by DeeDee and Skeet.

More pics of my little beach bum

The St. Simon’s Island Lighthouse

Zane has his fingers stuck in his ears in this picture, which reminds me that he got an ear infection the first day we were there. He would sign ‘more’ after we put his ear drops in. What kid wants more ear drops?? They must have made his ear feel much better!