10 Months

Zander finally has 4 teeth. He got his two on the bottom at 6 months and the top 2 have now come in. It seemed like it took a long time but they finally made their appearance. Thankfully they haven't bothered him too much and came in without causing him too much pain. The bottom 2 pictures are of Zander visiting Eric while he went rock climbing with the grade 10's from his school. Zander has been to so many different sporting events over this year. I just said to someone the other day most people take their baby to children's programs or things for babies but I take my baby to watch different sports. He has seen a lot of basketball over the year, but he has also gone to badminton tournaments, tennis, baseball and soccer games. Many students from King's know Zander well now and it's awesome seeing how excited they get when Zander is around. Another great month with our sweet little man.

9 months

Zander is on the move. He started to crawl this month and it is so much fun. He isn't up on his hands and knees but instead is doing the army crawl and gets where ever he wants to go. I honestly wasn't looking forward to Zander starting to crawl because I thought it would mean he would get into everything and that I would always have to be watching him but it has been so much fun watching him develop this skill and watching him go where he wants to go. He now can visit me in the kitchen or go after a ball that has rolled away from him. Zander seems so happy that he can get where he wants. Another thing that Zander learned this month is how to wave. He now will wave to you to say hello or good bye or just to get your attention. I have even had it that when I put him down for his nap and he waved to me as I was leaving the room. It is very sweet. Zander is also becoming more independent in eating. He now feeds himself pieces of food like avocado, banana or cheerios which he loves. Every month I find it so amazing to watch Zander develop more and more and show us more of the person that God created him to be.

Indonesia

Over March Break Eric and 2 other teachers from King's (where Eric teaches) took 15 students on a Mission/Cultural trip to Indonesia. We have friends that moved there in the summer and one of them used to teach at King's as well and they helped make this trip possible for the group. When we found out about the trip I was pregnant with Zander and had no idea what it was going to be like to have a baby or what our baby was going to be like but Eric signed both of us up for the trip and I am glad he did. I was a little nervous at times about taking Zander on a trip like this, that required 23 hours of travel, 2 flights, one being 16 hours long and a 12 hour time difference but it all worked out great. I was so thankful that I got to go along on this trip and was able to see our friends and experience a different culture again. We have missed traveling and it was nice to be able to travel again but this time be able to experience it all with Zander. Zander will never remember this trip but we will always remember taking him on this trip.

8 Month Update

Zander at his first Raptors game this month.


This past month has been a lot of fun as we have seen more of Zander's personality shine through. He is such a social baby that loves to be around people and do different things. There are times still when only Mommy and Daddy are good enough but if he can be around others while being with Mommy or Daddy he is a happy boy. He likes to make us laugh. Zander makes this cute face where he squints his eyes and smiles and we always laugh at him. (He is making it in the picture of him in his exersaucer) When he discovered that it made us laugh he started to do it all the time. He went for days where he did it constantly so we had to stop laughing at him so that he wouldn't do it so much. Zander also loves to clap and also does this all the time. Whenever he gets excited Zander claps and if you want to cheer him up, clap and he will join you and start smiling (most of the time :) ) He has mastered sitting on this own this past month and although he hasn't started to crawl yet he get around by rolling and spinning quite well. It has been so fun watching him grow and change this month and I'm sure it will continue to just get better.

7 months

I guess because Zander had such an exciting month last month he decided to keep things low key this month. He hasn't really done anything new this month but has just gotten better at all the things he does. He laughs more, rolls more, eats more and is just a happy guy. I think that he will be crawling before we know it because Zander will roll across a room and just likes to check things out so I think crawling will come soon, but who knows. When we went to the doctor last week and we discovered that Zander is up to 20lbs 6ozs. We always knew he was a big boy and this month our doctor told us that he is in the 95 percentile of height and weight. Like the doctor said though look at his genes, what do you expect. The doctor also said Zander is a healthy boy who is well portioned for the size and length that he is so we are happy to hear that. One first for this month was Zander getting sick for the first time. It is so hard watching your little baby get sick and not really be able to do anything for him but love him. I think it will always be hard watching him get sick no matter what age he is. Hopefully he won't get sick again anytime soon.

6 months

I cannot believe that my baby is 1/2 a year already. Time is going way too quickly and he is growing so fast. This past month was a big month for Zander. He started off the month with surprising us on Christmas day and he showed us that he knew how to roll over both from his back to his tummy and tummy to his back. He had been close for a while but then all of a sudden he got it. We also started Zander on solids and although he wasn't so sure about the whole food experience at first after 2 weeks he got the hang of it and likes everything I put in front of him. I was very happy to discover that Zander loves fruit. Finally I have someone to share a banana with :) Zander ended off this month with getting 2 teeth at the bottom. I was a little surprised to see teeth already but they are there and didn't cause him too much of a problem. This month has been a great month and it feels like Zander finally figured a bunch of things out. He is sleeping during the day and night better now, he is eating great and discovering new things all the time. It has been such a great month together.

Trying out the high chair

Not so sure

I don't have to swallow this stuff do I :)

More interested in the bib then the cereal

Our First Trip

Over Christmas break Eric took his boys basketball team to Florida for a tournament at Disney. It was a great tournament and the boys did well in their bracket coming home with 2 wins and 1 loss. Eric was very proud of how his team did at such a big tournament. Lucky for Zander and I we got to go along with Eric and his team. Although the weather was not great as they reached record breaking lows, we still had a great time and were glad we got to go along. Eric's team was very sweet to Zander and he had lots of fun with the boys too. This was our first trip together and we weren't sure how Zander was going to handle everything but he did fantastic. He had no problems with the flight and was still a happy little boy even though his schedule got all messed up and he missed naps. I was really impressed with how he did. Even though Zander won't remember this trip we definitely will and I'm glad with could go along with Eric and experience this together.