This has been a very busy month for the whole family!! 

I went back to work July 16th.  It was not as bad as I thought and contrary to what I thought I did remember how to be a nurse!  I missed my boys terribly though!!  Zane stayed with my parents overnight so J could focus on Logan who still didn’t want to take a bottle!!  He did not starve though he finally realized it was in his best interest to take the bottle!  I’m working every Saturday and a few 4 hour shifts here and there.  J’s doing great with the two boys!  He was even brave enough to walk to the corner store and get ice cream with them one night!!

J got a new job!!  YEAH!!  He will be starting the 2nd week of August.  He will be working for a company called NSW communications in their Help Desk department!!  The company is in Westfield so he’s happy to not have to travel far; I guess he’s also happy that he has a new job!!  Although he’ll be leaving Blockbuster behind along with Dan and our free rentals!  

Logan is growing so much….I often forget he’s only 3 months old!!  He’s been doing so much!  He finally laughed, a real chuckle!  I was tickling his sides, and out it came!  He grabs objects that are close to him and puts them right in his mouth, he holds his head up when he’s on his belly and on July 25th he rolled from his back to his belly!  We knew it was coming, in the middle of the month he was rolling onto his side we just kept waiting and finally one day he was home with J and there was a towel near by and he rolled grabbed the towel and stuck it in his mouth!!  Zane wants Logan to play with him so badly he is always giving him toys to share and he wants me to move Logan into whatever room he is in so they can be together.  He had so much fun pulling Logan around in the walker at my parents house I had to get one so now Zane can pull Logan were ever he wants and they can “play” together”.

Zane turned 2 July 14th. On the 9th we had his birthday party!!  So many people came to celebrate with us, it was a blast!  We had been working with Zane since the beginning of July on how old he was so he could tell everyone.  He did a pretty good job telling everyone “I two” and sometimes he even managed to get his 2 little fingers in the air, sometimes it was 3.  A big Thank You to everyone who came and for all the wonderful gifts!!  Zane is having so much fun with his new toys he never wants to leave the house or yard!

Zane’s speech therapist thinks that he has caught up with his age for his speech.  He is saying sooo many words and is putting together 2-3 word phrases.  He says “mommy were blue” and he’ll say “baby were are you” (okay that’s 4 words!) some others are “want cookie” “want cracker” etc… “mommy/daddy come back”  “be back”.  He is beyond his age in comprehension.  He can name most colors:  Blue, red, purple, yellow, pink and black.  And some shapes:  circle, moon, star, he calls triangles cheese.  He calls cows “moo”, sheep “baa” and trains “choo choo”.  His newest “wow” moment was when we were all driving to the mall J and I were talking and Zane was “talking” to himself in the back seat like he always does and all of a sudden we realize he was really singing the Who song “who are you”.  He would say “who are you….Ooo…ooo….ooo…ooo”  he had the right beat and everything!!  He absolutely loves the song whenever CSI is on he comes running and dances to it…now he can sing it!!   Zane also has discovered the phone!!  One day he took my cell phone and managed to dial pa pa’s number from my contacts list and left a message when the answering machine picked up…all he said was “pa pa? oh”  I didn’t know what was going on until my dad called me and said “Zane just left me a message”  and I found Zane sitting on the couch with my phone! 

J has pictures of Zane’s birthday up in the gallery.  Enjoy!