Festivities Abound

 We apologize for the lack of a post last week - Amy was travelling to N. Carolina and Tennessee and just didn't have enough hours in the weekend to get everything done before she then packed up again and flew to Texas for this week - all in the pursuit of training executives on an expense report software that the company is implementing.  Anyway, it was a busy, tiring two weeks but hopefully life will be relatively quiet again for a while.  It had been a pretty exhausting several weeks prior to the trips, so even though Amy was in a hotel bed (which is never as comfortable as your own!), she actually slept in one day until almost 9A Orlando time (it was 8A where she was) - which that hasn't happened since the "pre-children" era! :)  It was heavenly, but the fact that she had to get up at 4A on her last day to catch the flight home pretty much negated any feeling of being rested.

So onto this week's post - with Kaleb's birthday being only 6 days after Zachary's, the Z-household is basically in party mode for a LONG time!  :) We celebrated this year with a Curious George party at the Orlando Science Center, and it was really fun.  They did several little experiments at the beginning of the party, including shooting 'rockets' up into the ceiling with the help of Alka-Seltzer.  The kids all thought that it was a blast, so all-in-all, it seemed to be a successful party.

Kaleb's Sabbath School singing Happy Birthday to him

Zachary participated in the Adventurers Little Lamb program this year, and while the family was all here he had the Investiture program (aka graduation) - which was entirely too long but was fun to see him walk in with his little outfit on and receive his little trophy.  He had a good time in it this year, and so it was a success.

Blake, Luke and Zachary looking very handsome

Gram-Z and Papa-Z then headed home which always leaves us feeling sad, but we were fortunate that we had something to look forward to - Amy's cousin Scott and his wife Patricia were passing through Orlando after enjoying a cruise, so we had the opportunity for a too-short visit, but a visit nonetheless!  It was really fun to be able to catch up for a bit.

Phrase of the week:  Mommy, I don't think that you should say "maybe" - I think that you should say YES!  How well we remember as kids thinking the same thing - Mom should say Yes, not maybe!! :)  Kaleb's phrase is not so much a phrase, as trying to capture how precisely his speaking patterns are.  When you ask him something, such as "did you see that duck, Kaleb?" His reply is always a very crisp "Yes I did" - if only we were more literate with how to make movie clips, it would be precious to get his little voice!

The boys each had a Curious George shirt with the words "Look Who's" and then the age that they were turning.  It was cute to see them in their matching shirts, and they weren't hard to make (thank goodness for PhotoShop!)

Making slime....ooey, gooey fun!

About to make a volcano - little scientists with their lab coats and goggles on!