Monday, April 27, 2009

Eventful few weeks...















Zach has had an eventful last few weeks. He is doing so great in school!! His teacher told me today that she is so impressed with him and even one of the other little boys in his class said that Zach could read really good!! Better than anyone else!! Of course, that makes me the proudest Moma ever!! His teacher also told me that they were supposed to read 160 stories by the end of the year and Zach was on story #156!! hehe










Zach is now telling me that he wants me to go back to work so that his Daddy won't have to go back to the tugboat. He doesn't understand that Daddy has no choice in not going back to the tugboat because they laid him off. He is just at an age where he wants his Daddy a lot more than his Mommy.










I don't want to repeat myself on this blog and my other blog. But we have been on vacation to Tennessee and we went to the river on Saturday and to the creek. I think Zach had the most fun at the creek. He kept floating down stream. It kind of scared me but of course he was fearless!!

Monday, March 16, 2009

Zach's weekend...

This past weekend, Zach decided that he wanted to spend the night with Bebe and Papa. On Friday night he went with us to get our tattoos done and of course he had to have one too. LOL The machine took his money so a guy had to come open the machine and get his tattoo out and he was so proud of Zach for being so good for 4 hours that he gave him 2 tattoos!! Here is a pic of one of them.....



Anyway, Saturday Bebe came to get him to go to her house at 10:30 a.m. They went to the river to the River Days or something that was going on down there and Papa bought him a raccoon hat...











Then Saturday night they went to a benefit sing for my great aunt and her husband because he is having medical complications from a surgery that he had a few months ago. But Bebe said that he was very very good!! I am so proud!!










Chris got a call to go back to work on Sunday early so we were going to get Zach from Bebe's but he had a fit and it was already 9:30 p.m. when the guy called to tell him to be there in the morning at 10:00 a.m. So Chris just decided that we would go see him for a little while so that he could just stay there.










On Sunday, Zach, Papa and Bebe made a lemonade stand out of a hot water heater box. When we all got there Zach "sold" us lemonade from his stand. He made $4!! LOL He was so proud. We had to bring it home because he wants to go out in our yard this Saturday and sell some to the people going by on our road. I hope he isn't too disappointed.












Happy St. Patrick's Day!! (Early I know but...)

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Little Cutie...

Thursday night at the Jewelry party my friend, Dee gave Zach his birthday present that she and her daughter had gotten for him for his birthday and hadn't had a chance to give to him. It was a gift card to Walmart, so on Friday night we went to Brewton to Walmart and Zach was just itching to use his card. We spent 30 minutes or more in the toy section with him trying to decide what kind of toy he wanted. He finally decided because I told him that I was leaving him there if he didn't decide. LOL (yeah I'm a mean Mama!!) Then we went by the shirts and ties and he decided that he wanted that instead. So we ended up getting a shirt and tie that he wore yesterday to McDonald's. He is so cute with it on!! I took a few pictures of him with it on.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Baseball!!



Tuesday we signed up for baseball!! I had to pay $50 for him to play!! WOW!! Still not sure exactly why it costs so much for baseball but Zach enjoys it so much!! He was ready to play that day. LOL They have signups until the end of February. He's hoping to be on a red team again this year but who knows what team he will be on. I think we will probably find out the first week of March because on the 7th we have to go tell them what size uniform he needs.


Of course, after all that I got the bright idea to do a scrapbook of his baseball years. I have so many scrapbooks it's not even funny. But I love pictures and I loveeee to put together scrapbooks. I also have one of his school years, starting with last year. :0) I know I'm crazy!!





Saturday, February 14, 2009

Good Times.....





Zach wanted to show off his boots that Bebe and Papa got him for his birthday. I finally got him some socks long enough to wear with them. He was wearing some of Chris' and they were WAYYY too long. LOL He looked so funny with them on.




Friday night we went to Cracker Barrel in Greenville for Mom's birthday. Zach and Richard were playing checkers outside but Zach wasn't doing such a great job.



I got Zach Madagascar 2 for Valentine's Day!! Not too sure if he liked it or not. He is a little weird that way. LOL He won't come out and tell you what he likes but he sure does say things you don't want him to. HAHA!!



Monday, February 9, 2009

Birthday party!!






Zach's birthday party went really well on Saturday. We had a total of 5 kids here. Not bad but not too great either. LOL Considering he invited 23 kids total. He had fun though. That's all that matters. After the party we went to Mobile to a Mardi Gras parade and to watch a movie. We had a really exciting day.






Just for reference in the future when Zach looks back on this and says who all was at my party that year, here is a list of people that came....




Zach
Bebe
Papa
Moma
Daddy
Hannie
Richard
Pop
Mother
Momo
Spencer
Alex
Hamilton
Austin
Tracey
Spencer's Mom and Dad
Teresa
Kiara
Dawson
Chris' mom didn't come...as usual...I don't know what exactly her deal is...I will keep my comments to myself. :0)

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Doctors visit...

Nothing really productive came from going to the doctor today. He just told us that children sometimes go through things like that. Zach might be stressed about school and other things. It could be that he is stressed about Chris being gone all the time. He said just to try to comfort him when it happens. UGH!! I don't know what to do. :0(

On a happier note Zach got his dibels results today.....

40 Initial Sound
58 Letter Naming Fluency
62 Phoneme Segmentation Fluency
42 Nonsense Word Fluency

The midyear goal is 25 for IS, 27 for LNF, 18 for PSF and 13 for Nonsense Word Fluency.

I am so proud of him!!!!

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

ZCP


Zach is sooo excited about his birthday!! He took his invitations to school on Monday and as of right now...no one has RSVP'd. :0( I think we ended up inviting 23 children from school!! If they all show up my house is gonna be packed!! LOL I don't think they all will though.


I don't know if I have already put this on here or not but Saturday we are doing his party and then going to Mobile to a Mardi Gras parade!! He loves Mardi Gras so we are kinda keeping it a secret. SHHH!!! hehe


Tomorrow he has a doctor's appointment for his sleepwalking. He got up 4 times last night. I am just to my wit's end because I don't know what to do for him. It makes me sad. :0(


Anyway, pray that the party goes good!!

Thursday, January 29, 2009

The Sleepwalker....

Last night, Zach decided that he needed to bring all of his cover out of the bedroom with him when he came to my room. So when he got in there I asked him what he was doing and he told me he didn't know. So I just let him sleep with me. This morning when he got up he wanted to know why all his covers were in my room. He thought it was the funniest thing ever!! Me, I'm scared...thinking something is wrong with my baby!! Hopefully Dr. Nettles will be able to tell us something next week about what is going on with him.

Zach is so excited about his birthday being next week!! He thought tomorrow was his birthday. LOL

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Spoke too soon....



Ok, so yesterday maybe I spoke too soon about bragging on Zach. Or maybe he was having an off day? He forgot his lunch box and his homework at school. I love him even if he does forget things, we all do sometimes, no one can be perfect. I have to give him credit though he hasn't been taking his lunch and I decided last week that he needed to take lunch and snack instead of me fussing with the lunch money lady. She keeps getting things mixed up and made me pay for days that Zach did not eat. So I fixed that problem by not letting him eat what they have and letting him take something from here....which is fine with him because he would rather eat spaghetti o's everyday or our leftovers from the night before anyway!! :0)




Here are two drawings that he did at school yesterday.....





This one says : My Bebe and Papa let me hold the goat.

This one says: My Bebe and Papa let me take a picture.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Zach



Zach is my soon to be 6 year old son. He loves to read, ride his bike, and play. He is the most loving child that I have ever met, but he can also be a little mean if he wants to be. This blog is for me to sort of brag on him a little. When he does good in school or if he says something funny or if something is happening in his life I will post it here so that one day when he is older and wiser he will see that his Mom loves him as much as any mother ever could love her child. I don't want to be one of those overprotective mothers that everyone looks at crazily because she is always fussing over her child but he is my baby!! :0)


A few facts about Zach....


He is in Kindergarten.

He is a little on the chunky side.

He wants a brother or sister really soon.

He has brown eyes and brown hair.

He looks just like his daddy.

He doesn't really like to get a bath every night.

He LOVES to play his WII.

He likes to build things.

He loves his Bebe and Papa.

He likes to play baseball.

He doesn't like to take too many pictures. (of himself)

He likes to take pictures of everything around him.

He is polite.

He loves his moma and daddy.

He loves his Uncle Richard and Aunt Hannah.

He loves to watch movies @ the movie theater.

He doesn't like the dark.



~~Right now, Zach is having trouble sleeping. He has been sleepwalking for a few weeks now. I called the doctor this morning and they told me to make sure that all the windows and doors are locked. Then they set up an appointment for us to meet with Dr. Nettles next Thursday @ 3:15. I don't know what could be wrong with him. It is kind of scary. I read that sleepwalking can be triggered by stress, lack of sleep and other things. I don't know what kind of stress he could be under and he goes to bed every night before 9. It used to be by 8:30 but we kind of bumped it up because he kept asking if he could have more time. I told him this morning that tonight he has to go to bed earlier and that I didn't want to hear him say anything about it and he just said "Ok, Moma."


~~Zach got his first A+ on one of his papers the other day. His teacher always tells me that Zach is one of a kind. He has so many stories and little things that he picks up when no one thinks he notices. She said that Friday, one of his classmates didn't want to ride the bus home and started crying and that Zach told him that he had to "face his fears". Don't know where he got that from.


~~Zach misses his daddy a lot. He works on a tugboat for 23 days out of the month and is home for 10. He gets so excited when Chris is coming home.


Well that's all for today....


Zach's Mommy