Silliness

Zachers has been a little more imaginative in his play lately. He recently decided to throw all of his stuffed animals into his crib, and some blankets. Then he begs me to put him in (um, sure) and to start his Putumayo CD. There is a "No More Monkeys" song on there that he loves and jumps and jumps to (we have a video of this we'll post as soon as our software cooperates). After he's done jumping, it's time to wrestle some animals. And I mean wrestle! He grabs them and rolls around and just has a grand ol' time.

Enough wildlife, thankyouverymuch

One thing I love about owning a house and having a backyard is having a garden. And while this year is a total experiment and I've realized I really don't have a clue, it's been fun.

That is, until my flowers started dissappearing. The town of Superior has just a few rabbits around. I'm talking seeing at least one rabbit every few houses while out running in the morning. Most days I see 2+ in our front yard at some point. They're everywhere! Apparently they are worse this year about getting into backyards (neighbors report) than in the past. Anyway, I've thought they were pretty cute until now. I've had flowers vanish within 24 hours of planting them! AH! Maddening and expensive! So we're trying a nasty smelling (dries odorless) spray called Liquid Fence (kinda works?), and are trying to close off all possible entries through the fence. I never thought I could have such feelings towards bunnies.

And if that's not enough excitement for you, I had a little scarier encounter with wildlife two days ago. I was jogging to meet a friend to go on a walk. (Jogging because I was late, of course). We have lots of open space near us that winds between streets and has nice paved paths through it. I had decided to cut through on the paths instead of going around through the neighborhood and was jogging down a hill when I saw it:

Yes, a RATTLESNAKE! (no, this is not an actual picture of it). It was sunning itself with the first 1.5-2 feet of it on the path. It was pretty big around so I'm sure there was much more to it than I could see, but I didn't care to find out. I had been going at a pretty good pace striding down the hill with the jogging stroller and had to screech to a halt to avoid running over it. It didn't coil or rattle at me, but gave me a good stare as I quickly backed up. Zach was definately within striking range. I tend to zone out a bit when walking or running and I'm so grateful that I noticed it in time. Thankfully we were able to book it back up the hill without an incident, but I must say I'm going to avoid that path for awhile.

Ball Boy

We took a trip to the zoo and met my friend Amy and her 2 boys there. I think things were just a little too far away to be exciting to him. Of course, he loved the gorillas again, though. Zach was more interested in the balls the animals had to play with than the animals themselves. For example, when we were at the elephants there was an elephant directly in front of us eating and staring us down. But he was pointing excitedly to the elephant's ball on the other side of the habitat. "Ball! Ball! Ball!" Just like his Daddy. Too funny.

We rode the little train there and he thought that was pretty fun.

It's About Time

I don't feel like I have anything too exciting to blog about. We have been busy working in our yard (more to come on this, eventually), and just enjoying the beautiful spring weather. Here's a few snapshots just for the sake of updating!

How about this sassy little look.

Some days we go to the park and all he wants to do is RUN.

"Go!" We have to run races. He loves it. And he's getting really fast.

No day is complete without using a shovel and a stick. Obviously.

Easter

Yep, I know this is about a month late.... but here you go.

Cal and I were really brave and colored eggs with Zach one evening. He did a great job and was pretty excited about it.

For some reason the eggs were really simple this year.

We also had a little Easter egg hunt for him with my mom in their backyard the day before Easter.

He seemed to know what to do.

But of course there were distractions.

Like the delicious candy inside.

Notice the chipmunk cheeks.

And the yardwork. The yardwork!!

Oh, and this cute guy.

And jumping off the deck.

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