Zander on drums!

This is him last weekend, just rocking out. But his little combo towards the end is very good. He's been doing that combo a lot:



(ignore how messy my couch looks, we were getting ready to go to Flagstaff and we have to put sheets on the couch so the dog doesn't scratch it up when we're gone)




This is from a few weeks ago. He's singing Clutch's "Electric Worry". And he does a little guitar noise that's just like the song. Love it!

Note: Google Video goes "unavailable" sometimes, so if the video doesn't play try it again.

Garden & Butterflies

Zander & I went to the Desert Botanical Garden to see the butterflies.

Zander thought the butterflies were awesome.






Then we went to PV Mall where Zander saw the Easter Bunny.

And rode the carousel.


It was a fun day!

Madi, Landon & Zander

Madison, Landon Jones and Zander

Can I talk about my kiddo for a moment?

He's doing great in preschool!

This is him sitting on his spot.

We had "parent-teacher" conferences last week. He's doing so well at school. He is one of the youngest in the class (mid-September birthday, about 16 days after the official cutoff but the school agreed to put him in the older-3's class because we want him to start kindergarten in the 09-10 school year). His teacher said he's very well behaved and in tune with his feelings. She gave us an assessment of areas and he was only lacking in 5 things: cutting with scissors, hopping up and down while standing on one foot, knowledge of days of the week and months of the year, and knowledge of community helpers (which is interesting considering a work for the fire department). He writes in upper case letters very well and she's working with him to get him using lower case. So I'm working on that with him too. He was tested on all his letters and he only got two mixed up, lower case b, he said it was a d. And lower case q, he said it was a g.

The teacher said he will be more than ready for Pre-k in the fall! She enjoys having him in class and wishes he was there more than two days, she says he is just thriving. :-)

In February his class's projects were on the front board when you walk in. The teacher asked each child "What is Love?" Zander's reply was "LOVELY", and that was hung with our pictures on the display.


Zander is sitting next to me and he wanted me to write "I LOVE SWEET POTATOES" (his favorite restaurant is Sweet Tomatoes). Oh and his other one is Rainforest Cafe. He's making me write this,lol.

I'm proud of him!

We met Wendi & Family!

My LJ friend Wendi from Texas and her kiddos Bradley & Emersyn were here visiting family last week. We were able to meet up at the train park. It was SO nice meeting Wendi, she's awesome (and taller than I imagined,hehe)

Here's some pics of the kiddos:

Zander & Bradley on the train.

We rode the train and the carousel. Then the boys played on the playground for a while, they had a great time.

Bradley & Zander waving at the train.


Bounce house!


Zander is so brave these days. Just a few months ago he wouldn't have done this.


Bradley & Zander getting balloon swords(which ended up popping, of course). Wendy & Emersyn in the background. I should have taken more pictures!


The boys playing swords!


We had a great time. The boys got along so well.

Zander and I ate at Grimaldi's afterwards (cuz you can't drive to Scottsdale and not eat Grimaldi's pizza!) and Zander at 2.5 pieces! This is the boy that doesn't like pizza, lol.

:-)

Welcome to Legoland, where we make everything out of Legos!

The Safari Trek ride was our first of the day. It was cute.




*hugs Thomas*


Tries to break Spongebob's nose off. I kid.


RAWR






I'm thinking I might hang this up in my office (I work at the Fire Training Academy).


Zander hugged all the Lego people.


Doug got fresh with a few of them.




Zander rode this ride 3 times, he loved it!




They have this mini-world where they make everything out of Legos. This is NY.


Vegas!

The mini Treasure Island had explosions and stuff!


This guy was cool looking.


Zander loves Bob.


and Thomas.


He battled the Dark Side.


and met R2D2.

The end. More here if you are interested. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mich311e/

a week ago - Ocean Beach picture post

Zan in the car

We tried to go to Legoland first, but when we got there we were told it was closed due to the rain. So we drove about 35 minutes back South and had lunch. By the time we got to our room and changed our clothes it was sunny. So our plans to be at the beach on Monday were switched but it turned out to be a good thing.




Why is it so hard to get a good picture of me and my kid?


Sand Castle


Totally wet. We played in the water for a while, it was so fun.


Zander wrote his name without any prompting.


He then wrote "Dad". And after that wrote Kyra, Anna and Guatam - kids in his class, lol.


The best part of sand castles - crashing them!


He got cold.

Monday Morning

We tried to go to the pier Sunday night but it was closed. It was still closed in the morning due to these intense waves. SO it ended up working out because the beach wouldn't have been a good idea on Monday.


Newsworthy waves. All the news crews were filming in the morning. We even watched one live interview on the beach from our balcony and on TV, it was kinda neat!


Not happy with the sun in his eyes.


There, that's better!


Strong but choppy waves, no one was surfing.


Yeah, he's huge.


While we were at the cliffs/tidepools the waves were huge. This guy got totally soaked so we stayed in as much as possible.




Zander took this one.


I like this one.


On our balcony, awesome beach view!




Attempt at a self pic.

There is more on my flickr. :-)