It's a sunshine day

Tyler: Mom, is that an American hoagie that you're eating?
Me: No, it's an Italian hoagie. When did you learn about American hoagies?
Tyler: Last time I went to America

Fair enough...

This past week, Zac threw one of the worst fits I've ever seen. It involved madness that Daddy wasn't there in the morning when he woke up and lasted for a good half hour. He ended up naked, pretty much standing on the front stoop, waving a diaper in his hand screaming Dada...at 8am. Yeah, that's the 10% I was talking about where he can go apeshit in a minute. It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

Right before I sat down to finish this up, Tyler flew from the top of our stairs straight down them with one of the biggest thumps I've heard in a long time and ended in a face plant on the floor at the bottom. That makes 3 trips for Zac and 1 for Tyler down the stairs. Good Lord please help us we didn't even get to 5 yet. Tyler reenacted it for us in a dramatic fashion since neither Dave or I saw what happened and kept saying "I can't believe Zac fell down the stairs and now I did too."

On to happier things...

BounceU fun...Zac and Nash are getting in to it. They love it!



And a little bit of Tyler singing some Miley while going potty



Lots of yo-yoing these days with the weather. One day it's warm, the next day it's freezing. Either way, we're fighting through it and making the most of this almost, we know you'll be here soon spring weather. The sun has been shining bright though and you could feel its warmth now that it's March and it's so darn nice. The ice cream shops opened last week so we rode our bikes down and froze and ate ice cream, still very yummy. I've gotten back in to the running groove and I'm trying for 10 miles/week to start and hopefully get biking and swimming in consistently so I can kick the tri's butt this year. Wishful thinking with the time we have to train, but I like to improve every year. Zac thinks it's fun to be lifted on my legs so I guess that counts as exercise too right? He thinks it's awesome. Any bit counts.

When the snow finally melted we were able to see the damage the winter has done to our yard. Dave whipped out the chain saw yesterday and we cut down and cleared some trees. He was gone on a little excursion with Ryan today and I decided to tackle the pine trees that were down. We now have lots of wood for summer fires in the yard and 14 bundles of trees to leave at the curb to get picked up. I can see the tippy top of the tulips I planted in the fall and the Daffodils are peeking through as well. Signs of Spring right there with the sound of birds chirping early in the morning makes me smile. That's the glory of experiencing seasons...there really is beauty in every one!

And today Tyler asked if he could write on our "Today I'm Thankful For" chalkboard. He said "I want to write I'm thankful for Mom". You melt my heart kid.

Mid-week madness

By time this gets published mid-week we will have gone through yet another snow storm and hopefully all is back to normal (they were way off with this one and thankfully we only got like an inch or so). I sometimes write these posts beforehand when I have some free time and set them to publish on a certain day. We had two Grandma's on alert for this one because by time we get to summer we won't have any vacation left at the rate we're going. Gram (Dave's Mom) camped out here Sunday and Monday night to relieve Grammy (my Mom) since she's been handling snow duty this Winter too. Thank goodness for Gram's!

I'm sure we've also done our fair share of sleigh riding, snow angeling, snow eating, quading, and hot chocolate sipping. Tyler got a new ski helmet from Kelsey next door and he got to try it out last weekend with Dad. We had a really warm weekend last weekend (like 50) and we felt like it was 90 out. The boys played at the playground, jumped in puddles, played in the mud, and rode bikes like it was Spring! Oh, and they did some snow pile riding of course.

One night they were playing in Zac's room quietly and Tyler yelled up "Mom, come look what we did!". I went upstairs and they had EVRY SINGLE thing in Zac's room in his crib. I mean down to every nut and bolt from the work bench even. Good thing is the room looked spic and span since everything was in the crib :) Oh, the power of two! Another thing to note is I realize that my kids are half naked in a lots of pictures. That's because only 50% of the time when they're in the house are they fully dressed. Once one take a shirt off or runs away after getting a diaper changed and doesn't put pants back on, or goes potty and comes out with no pants on the other one follows and does the same. They like to run around half dressed and that's fine with me. We just keep the house cozy warm so they don't freeze. Pick your battles or maybe they'll be nudists?! Hey, whatever floats your boat boys!

Another round of school pictures are in too! They're getting better for sure. I mean other than Zac's "I'm going to pop you face" or his "I'm going to cry in 2 seconds face" it's all good. Tyler came home the day of pictures and I asked how pictures were and he said "Mom, Zac was made when we were getting our pictures taken." Tyler is getting to be quite the model and I cherish these pictures more than you know and love to look back at them :)

We also painted Tyler's closet doors with chalkboard paint and Zac's will get done today. They are really loving it!

Let's start with some video of Tyler shakin it with Ke$ha and Pitbull...because you just can't help it when this song is on.



And a little more shakin it by Tyler and I, he asks me to dance and says me "Let's dance, my heinesty".



And Gram took a few turns on the quad...we never thought we'd see the day, but she hopped right on and did great!

The little guy turns 2!

Where do I begin!? With my normal I can't believe he's 2! Gosh it seems so weird that the little person I look at everyday is still a baby to me, but he's totally not. I need to readjust my mind and just deal with it. He's not getting any younger. I know why you get baby fever at this age though, no fear though, there won't be any more little DePolo's running around. But I do know why it hits at this age.

If I had to sum Zac up it would be 90% chill, goes with the flow and 10% I'm two and can freak out with the best of them. He's cuddly, squishy and I can eat him up. He's adventurous and a dare-devil, but cautious at the same time. He's a Daddy's boy for sure. Everything is about Dada! This makes life interesting since Dave leave before Zac wakes up in the morning, so usually we have a brief 3 minute fit when it's me that comes in the room to get him. Good thing is I know this all passes.

We had his well visit yesterday and he threw a fit when they tried to weigh and measure him. I had to do a weigh in with him and that was lovely. We had to measure him twice so I'm not quite sure if the height is really a good one to go by here, but oh well we'll get this down next year for sure. Other wise, he's happy and healthy and nothing too exciting came from the checkup. That's how we like it. He weighed 25lbs 12.7oz (23%) and is 33.5 inches (27%) and his head is 19.5 in (72%).

He still like to eat his fruit and veggies...and chicken. It's a win in the veggie department with him for sure. Yogurt, cheese, crackers, popcorn, peanuts, but no sandwiches. He'd eat pancakes for every meal if we let him and can house 10 chicken nuggets if you catch him on a good day.

He's starting to talk a lot more and is starting to put words together like 'me too', 'ice-water-please', followed by 'thank you'. His teachers say he has great manners. His reports from school are that he's a good boy and he listen's well. He is a good listener and I like it.

He wants to do everything Tyler does, like everything. I open the car door and Zac gets in himself and gets up in his seat. He tries to buckle his car seat and will follow his brother wherever he goes. He drinks only from a cup because that's what Tyler does. He goes and sits on the potty and although he doesn't do anything while he's on it he thinks he's awesome for being on the potty. It's cute. They play together and they fight together, they yell and scream and run and shout, steal toys from each other, and then hug and lay together on the couch like buddies. He's the pea his brother needed for the pod.

Zac can throw a ball like a champ. He put his fingers on the laces before he throws a football and dribbles a soccer ball like he knows what he's doing.

This past week he started climbing out of his crib with the utmost grace. He gets out in .3 seconds. Thankfully, he only did it twice one night and hasn't done it again. We are in no rush to get him out of the crib.

For Zac's birthday we took him to Burger King where he could eat chicken nuggets and fries and play in the indoor play area. Heaven I tell ya. We came home and ate some cake and opened some presents. He got a shopping cart, Don't spill the beans the game, twister and a car that you can take apart and put back together.

Now I get why my Mom still calls us here babies, because no matter how old you get in your Mom's eyes you'll always be a baby. Zac, I hope this year brings us continued excitement and adventure. You rounded this circus out perfectly and have kept up like no other with our adventures and I can't wait to see what this next year holds for us! Love you buddy!

On to some pictures, but since he never sits still and turns his head when you want a picture this is the best I could do!

Oh and he loves to shovel, the shovel comes inside, outside and in the car sometime :)