What's Zack up to?

Can you tell I have some time today? :-) This may be the way the blog goes, nothing for weeks and then BAM! :-)


So what is our 19 month old son up to these days? He is a very busy little boy. He is running all over the place and climbing over everything these days. He is also quite the chatter box, not such a good thing in church when he's talking to Riley. (My parents and my sister Molly, plus fam., go to the same church as we do.) He hasn't quite learned to use a quiet voice. He's also quite the flirt. He has to say "Hi" to everyone he meets on the street or elsewhere. He'll keep repeating it till someone says "Hi" back and then he'll giggle. It's quite cute.

What is he saying? LOTS! He's starting a lot of sentences now too. Examples:


"There she is" - Hasn't figured out genders yet so every statement is with she. It started when he would look for Coko in the morning outside his bedroom door. Once she saw her that's what I'd say. He now uses it for other people who disappear and come back.

"I love you" - Melts your heart!

"I like Kitty" or "I like puppy"

"What doin'?"

"What Happen?"

"I cookin'" - Wants to be like Daddy! He will take any kind of stick like item and find anything with a hole in it and stir in that hole and say this. It's pretty interesting the things he finds to cook in. A toy golf bag, his toy Helicopter that has a hole on top for balls to go in...

He's also very polite using, "Please" and "Thank you" already. We're starting to work on "Sorry" since he's begun to throw a few tantrums directed at people and Coko.


Cute words:

"Onkey" = Monkey. He LOVES Curious George, the books as well as the TV show. That is the first thing he wants to do in the morning is watch "Onkey, George". I DVR the show so we have them "on demand".

"Bampa" = Grandpa

"Mama" = Grandma - I am strictly Mommy

"Nana" = Banana

"Tah Dah!"

"BAM" - Daddy taught him this one recently while "cookin'"

"Touchdown!" - with the arm motions. Anything that gets the crowd excited while watching football he thinks it's a touchdown.

"Hockey" - which goes with " GO, GO, GO"

"Coffee" - Darin and I don't drink it but my mother-in-law does and when she comes into town and stays with us Zack knows "Mama" Bartsch drinks coffee, which is "HOT"

"Code" = Cold and its very dramatic how he says it.

"Rock, Rock" - When he is rocking in his rocking chair.


We think Zack is going to be an Engineer, which does run on both sides of our family. The things he looks at and tries to figure out is mind boggling. He knows how to turn switches on toys so he can turn them on and off when he likes. He likes to know how things work and if he sees you do something he's interested in he has to try it himself. We aren't the only ones to notice this. Some of the women in our ECFE group have said the same thing.

We know he's a genius already. He has such a great memory. When we were at my parents to visit Santa, Santa tried to get Zack's attention with the story of "The Night Before Christmas". Santa was doing it from memory, well, you could see something click in Zack's brain right in the middle of his playing and he stopped, then went and grabbed my Mom's teddy bear that tells you the story! No prompting from us. He recognized the story grabbed the bear and pushed the button to hear the bear tell the same story Santa was telling. We couldn't believe our eyes!


How do we keep busy during the week? Well, we are in an ECFE class, (Early Childhood, and Family Education) once a week, then we have met a great bunch of people through these classes that we go on play dates with and through that group one of the women knew a yoga instructor that does yoga out of her home and was willing to have our little guys run around the room while we attempt to get a workout. :-) So we do that once a week as well. These activities keep the week moving and gets us out of the house. I'm also lucky to have Molly staying home and my Mom so if we need a play date with Riley or I need to get out of the house, I can call on them. Megan is on maternity leave right now too so the 3 of us are having some fun with that. On Monday we went to Albertville and left the kids behind, (with grandparents of course). It was great. We haven't shopped together for years.

Well, now I think I am officially out of stuff to blog. So, I'm going to go and organize some pictures since Zack is still sleeping.

TTFN!