Well I am sad to say that the pools are closed here in our little city, so we are trying to figure out what we can do as we transition into fall, with 90 degree weather still learking around with the exception of the past couple of days. It has been raining like crazy, which has been GREAT! I am not sure if we have told you about this place called Boomerangs but it has approximately 7 huge inflatable bounce houses and Zachery loves it! We have been a couple of times and each time he builds confidence and jumps higher, especially if he is watching the older kids as they jump prior to sliding down the slides. We love watching him run around and after about 2 hours he is walking to each jump house, he is finally getting worn out. So the picture of him sliding through one of the obstacle courses is from Boomerangs. Since we are on the topic of confidence, he has started to jump off even higher things at some of the play areas that we visit. One of the pictures below is of him climbing backwards up an elephant trunk. At that same play area there is a camel that he climbs up and then will proceed to climb over the head and swing his leg around so he can use the camels head as a slide. It made me nervous when I saw him do it for the first time, but Charlie just smiled and said "its his new thing". Zachery wants to be like Daddy, hammering nails and screwing in screws. So Charlie got a piece of wood and started a couple of holes for Zach and he loves using the screw driver and hammer. Don't you just love how much he concentrates? "Play Tools?", is what Zach will say when he would like to play with the hammer and screw driver.
One afternoon after his nap, he went into the living room and found the sports page from the Sunday paper and starting reading it. Charlie was able to catch him on camera. For some reason we have caught Zach sleeping at the end of his bed, which makes us nervous because there is a good foot gap in between the foot board and the mattress. I think one afternoon he actually slid down and was caught with his head barely sticking up from above the foot board and touching the floor. We are still trying to understand why he just doesn't get down off his bed when he wakes up and open the door, he just sits there and talks until we come and get him. I hope he continues to do that for a little bit, it reminds me that he hasn't grown up all that much, yet.
