Happy Halloween!!

Well I hope everyone had a fantastic Halloween!! We had Such a fun (and busy) day!! To start off the day Joe took Zach into work (in his costume) to kinda show him off :) Joe said Zach had a great time, and then when they came home I had to leave with Zach to his music class. They had told us all the kids could dress up, and every single kid came in costume, the CUTEST costumes!! Then they ended class a little early and let the kids trick-or-treat around the other classrooms! Zach was really getting into it, and was loving everyone else's costumes!

Then after lunch and a nap Zach was up and ready for round 2! We made a "spooky" grahm cracker house (of which he mostly jsut ate the candy!) and then we took off to do Trick-Or-Treating down Main Street in Springville with our great friends The Jones' :) It was SO much fun, and such a great way to trick or treat!! towards the end i got Zach out of the stroller and let him walk and then he really got excited then! He was signing thank you to the people and laughing. He would only carry his bucket for a minute then put it down and walk away, lol. So either Joe or I would end up carrying it :)

Then we took off to visit Dave (Joe's dad) at his office at BYU, and he was SO happy to take Zach around the office and show him off to his colleuges. After that we stopped by JT & Kasaundra's for a visit and then they came with us to Dave & Linda's for some pizza & some more trick-or-treating around Joe's parents neighborhood. It was so much fun!! after a trip around the block, Zach was having a last helping dave pass out candy. He would wait by the door, peering outside and as soon as he would hear kids coming he would get all excited and turn around to let DAve know, then when they would come up to the door he would open it and smile at them and jsut babble! Then he would wave (and say) bye bye to them and shut the door and wait all over again!! If by any chance he wandered away form the door, as SOON as the doorbell would ring he would RUN to the door and wait to help grandpa!!

It was such a fun day, and we had a blast!!

Growing Imagination!

Zach's little imagination is just exploding lately! He loves to mimic everything we do, when I go to get a pot out of the cupboard for lunch/dinner, he comes in right behind me and gets one out too and "cooks" his own dinner :) He has recently started to LOVE pushing his duck around and talking to it (he sees people walking their dogs on a daily basis past out house) and anything that he can pretend play with, eh will. Its so fun to watch this creativity grow in him, and it is so exciting to see him doing age appropriate developmental things finally!! It makes every new thing he does twice as exciting to watch!!

Pumpkin Carving!

On Saturday night we carved our pumpkins! Zach was excited (at first) to have his own pumpkin, and loved to "scoop" his out. It was such fun, i tried to get him to put his hand in it, but he was NOT having any of that!! We got all 3 of our Jack-O-Lanterns done, and they turned out SO cute!!






Joe's AWESOME Tigger Jack-O-Lantern!

Then later that night we went out for a walk, enjoying the nice weather we are having!! i love Fall!!

"Conduct With Me..."

So Zach has this Little Einsteins Baton that he just loves, and he will carry it around and conduct his music, all very lovely. Well tonight he had it in the kitchen while he was helping Joe unload the dishwasher and I remember him coming back out to the living room and asked him where his baton was, and had Joe check the dishwasher to make sure Zach hadn't put it in there.... it wasn't in there. So I figured he put it somewhere and promptly forgot about it....

Well cut to just now, Joe came back inside from having taken the trash out and was holding Zach's Einsteins baton.. and I just started laughing and asked how he saw it in the trash bag? He laughed and said he threw the bag into the dumpster and clear as day heard it ring "Conduct with me!!" and light up, lol. So luckily the dumpster was pretty full and he was able to grab the bag and riffle through it until he found the thing.

It really makes me wonder what we don't find that has ended up in the dumpster...

How to Eat Corn :)

How to Eat Corn by Zachary Magleby :)

The Pumpkin Patch

So today I realized, holy cow its the 18th of October!! We need a pumpkin!! So after Zach woke up from his nap we headed over to the Pumpkin Patch, and he LOVED riding inthe wagon while we looked for pumpkins, and he loved touching every pumpkin, he kept trying to pick them up at first but then gave up and went off to push the wagon! All in all it went great until I went to take his picture with the Giant pumpkin display (like I did last year) buthe was NOT a fan of that!! So I snapped a quick crying one just to have one!

So here is his picture from last year and then this year! (I cant believe how much he has grown since then!)

and then some other pics from the pumpkin patch!

First Snow!

On Sunday we woke up to our first snowfall of the year! (yikes!) Not a lot stuck, and it melted by about noon, but it was there! So we took Zach out to "play" in it and see how he liked it, since he's never been out in the snow before (its his first winter where he isn't on oxygen). Turns out, he LOVED it!! He kept wanting to hold more, but he would just drop it and watch it melt :) He was quite upset when we came inside, and kept pointing out the window at it saying more, more, go go!! lol. Isn't he lucky we're in Utah where there will be lots more snow to come! So here's a video of him playing in his fun Snow :)



Also, yesterday and today I've been doing some deep cleaning (yea!) Sadly its stuff that when you look, you cant really see the difference (at least i cant!) I pulled down all of the pictures off the walls in the living room and washed all the walls from top to bottom, and holy cow that was quite the workout! I was still feeling it when I went to bed last night, lol. Up and down on and off the chair, lol. Also we pulled everything off the DVD & bookshelves and pledged & dusted all kinds of fun stuff!! (I say we because Zach was quite the helper!) Today Zach helped me wash the walls in the dining room and now that he's down from his nap I'm gonna try and tackle the mess on the kitchen table (sorting bills, and other mail & junk....oh joy!)

And we cant wait for Halloween to get here!! Today I decorated & put up all of the Halloween decorations! And we finally figured out what Zach is going to be for Halloween!! Tigger! (which made Joe happy since that was what Joe has wanted him to be the whole time!) Originally we were thinking Cookie Monster since he is such a pro at saying COO-KIEEEE, lol. But then we went to get it, not in the store, so we went to order it online, out of his size. So then we found this cute Lil devil costume, and I waited too long to order it I guess because I went back to buy it and it was sold out :( So we found a tigger costume in his size, and SOLD bought it right away, lol. :) And I'm SOO excited we're going to take Zach with our friends the Jones' to do this children's Trick or Treating they do in Springville up main street while its still light outside, which sounds SO fun!!

So I think that's it!! (for now at least!!)