Baptism

We had a fun family weekend starting Saturday with a nice patio lunch with extended family, then Nellie's party for the Retro on Roscoe festival. On Sunday, we had Zander baptized at St. Benedict church in Chicago. We were joined by Jazzie's family and our close friends Katie and Phillip and their boys. Zander did well and had the hiccups during the ceremony and thought getting water poured on him was pretty funny. 

 

 

 Katie and Phillip are Zander's godparents and their two boys, Charlie and Henry gave Zander lots of attention during the mass. I think they are looking forward to the days he can play with them!!

 Zander's aunts (Nellie, Abbie and Maggie) and future uncle, Garrett joined the celebration

 Posing with the proud grandparents

 We got some good smiles for some family photos after the mass (I think he loved rocking a bow tie again!)

5 months

It's hard to believe Zander is 5 months old already! He seems to grow overnight sometimes. He now weighs 14# 6 oz and keeps getting taller. He is now very active and beginning to move around. He can scoot himself around on the floor and off his play mat so we have to keep an eye on him....sometimes we think he is already trying to chase Parker.  He really likes to play with his feet and can roll onto his side, but isn't getting all the way over yet. When he is on his tummy, he can sometimes roll himself to his back (other times to gets stuck and just flails his arms and grunts) He is sitting really well with just a little bit of support and doesn't want to lay back and is always try to sit himself up. He also really likes to stand and thinks he is pretty cool when he does this. He likes a lot of his toys and can grasp a lot of different objects and tries to put everything in his mouth....no teeth coming through yet, but we think soon. It is so much fun to watch him grow and he is at a really fun, playful age! 

 

We had a lot of cute pictures from our 5 month photo shoot

 

 As he gets bigger, so does the drama! He can sure pull out a pouty lip when he wants to!

 2 of his favorite things to do: standing and looking at himself in the mirror

He is a very busy guy...he can't just play with his toys he has to grab them all, look in the mirror, and play with his feet......good thing Zeb and I are runners because we think this little man is going to keep us on our toes!

 

 We tried to give him rice cereal for the first time last weekend as he seemed really interested in food, but he hated it and it was quite a disaster......maybe next time! (again, the drama - there's even real tears in this one!)



Our Family

We've been pretty busy lately and have been getting into the routine of work and daycare and just spending as much time together as a family as we can. We did get the pictures back from our family photo shoot in June and were happy with the results and wanted to share some of them.  We got some good family pictures and Grandpa's farm was a perfect setting. - Thanks to Karly Walker photography - she did a good job and we would love to use her again.