Gotcha Year Two

Gotcha Day year two for our little Zak...so amazing to think it's been two years.  Seems like yesterday and seems like forever ago at the same time.  We had lots of fun looking back through all the photos and talking about our trip.  It was pajama day for Zak at school so that was extra special fun.  His special present-a new belt...yup, a belt. The boy that came to us storing plums in his pockets and just this week stuffed a ball of silly putty into his blue jeans now insists on wearing a belt for every occasion.  He is our character, our funny guy, our adored "lil man" as Van likes to say.  We simply cannot imagine our family without him.  

Long Overdue

School started and poof it's almost Halloween.  I guess getting into our new non-summer groove took longer than expected.  Feels like we are on a roll now.  Looking forward to the season of candy that's about to begin and all the fun fall festivities.  Van is tackling 1st grade head on with an awesome teacher and plenty of stories.  Zak is king of preschool and starting to work on letter recognition and hand writing.  It's both funny and surprising to hear, see, listen to what they do know and even funnier what they don't but think they do.  We hear a lot of conversations that start with "Did you know..." and we love it.  Learning, loving and laughing...how we are rolling around here.