Touch Down Video

I've been slow to upload videos because I haven't wanted to take the time to convert them into small enough files to work on the blog. That said here is one of Zach cheering for a touch down. I don't teach Zach as many things as Emily, but I do think it is my job to coach him in some of the manly skills he must learn.

He's so peaceful when he's sleeping

There's something about a sleeping child that is just so sweet. And it is especially sweet when it's your own child. And even sweeter when sleep is so hard to come by (as in our house).

Doesn't he look like such a little boy? Where'd my baby go??

He is a bundle of energy and has been growing like a weed. He cracks us up and is learning so much every day. He seems to be saying a lot these days. Some of his favorite words right now are: hot, Hannah (my parent's cat), cheese, Cheerios, daddy, shoes, and hello ("ha-woh").

The "dominant Smith gene" (as Cal calls it) is coming out in his obsession with climbing onto everything. And sometimes jumping off. You can see he's standing on a chair...
I'm not sure what he was doing, but thought this was pretty funny:

"Touchdown!!" ("ta-dow!")

Apparently he found an old package of wipes. He was having way too much fun to stop him.

Where did these adorable rosy cheeks come from? Must be those Smith genes again.

Privacy Please

Well, we've decided that our family blog is going private.

It is something that I have contemplated off and on for awhile now and I'm finally going to do it. Part of the motivation is that there are quite a few people looking at my photography blog (I can see lots of visits, but very few comments, so I don't know who is looking!), and you can link to this blog from my profile. And since this blog is much more personal (like 10 billion pictures of Zach), we thought we'd limit it to our family and friends. Just to make sure there are no creeps, you know? And we want to protect our friends whose links we have on here, too. I will still probably have some pictures of Zach on the other blog, but in a different context...

Anyways, going private just means you have to sign in to see this. (sorry for the slight inconvenience, but I figure if it's too much trouble to sign in, then you don't really want to see it anyways, right?)

SO, if you want to keep looking, just leave a comment with your email address, or email it to me and I'll add you to the list. (I think I have to send you an email to "invite" you to see it.) We love to share with you- it's not like the blog is for us.

And it can't hurt, right?

Motherhood changes you

If you told me a year ago that I could laugh as I let my son smear avocado all over himself, I would have thought you were crazy. Apparently I've mellowed out a lot. Besides, how can you stop him from being this cute?

I had my camera on the table next to me and just couldn't get over his eyes in these!

"Garbage!"

"What did I do?"

(I really wish you could see this one full sized- his eyes are super sparkly!)

"Yeah, I know I'm pretty funny."