Ten on Tuesday

1. After much searching I finally found some shoes that fit Zane. I was hoping not to spend a lot of money on them, but turns out the $12 shoes at Babies R Us don't fit my fat footed baby, unless I bought them a size too big, which led to him falling down multiple times in the store. So we ended up with New Balances, which were the only velcro shoes that I could find that came in half sizes. I really wanted to get him little puma's, because if I was going to have to spend $30 on shoes I wanted them to be adorable, but turns out they don't come in size 5.5. Strangely a lot of the toddler shoes had shoe laces which would annoy me as a daycare worker and knowing Zane would probably be dangerous. So moral of this story is, if you see little kids in name brand shoes, their parents probably didn't want to spend a lot of money on shoes for their one year old, but most likely had to because their baby inherited their mother's fat/wide feet.

2. I am making final preparations for the first annual Korenak Craft Day to be held at my house next week. Everyone at work is amazed that I own a glue gun ( I hate to tell them how little glue guns cost) and wanted to learn the ways of my wreath making so fall craft day was born. Possibly Brandy and I being on nights and extremely bored helped as well. We are making Halloween and fall wreaths which should be fun. Here is the Boo wreath I'm making. Turns out burlap is a pain to cut into 1in x 16 in strips but I did it and it should be cute.

3. This is my last day of six days off and I am happy to say I got a lot of scrapbooking done. I needed some sort of activity to keep me busy, especially since it has been rainy and cold here, ruining all my outdoor plans. Here are some pictures of the lay outs I did. I tried to make a slide show but couldn't figure out how to do that, so I just posted a bunch of pics, sorry.

4. We all still have colds here in the Korenak house hold. Zane's runny nose is back, Zach is still in the midst of his illness, and I feel like I might be getting the sinus crud again. I have bleached everything, left the windows opened, changed all the sheets.... I'm out of ideas.

5. Zane is climbing in and onto everything these days. He continually is climbing into his, decently small, toy basket and yesterday he figured out he can climb on the the little drawers in the kitchen. NOT SAFE Zane. He can get in or on something extremely fast too, which makes my day that much more exciting!

6. Zane's other new activity is pretend cooking in the kitchen. He loves to play in there by himself, with a bowl, a spoon, and a whisk, usually. He pretends to mix and pour things into his little bowl, babbling away the whole time. He has also started to pretend fill up my cup with empty soda bottle or whatever he is playing with at the time. Such a cute new developmental stage.

7. Is it bad that I am excited about the new season of tv shows? Glee's season premiere is tonight, Parenthood has already started, Modern Family is tomorrow, and Thursday we finally get to figure out who is getting Michael Scott's job on the office. That's all the shows I watch, but I am excited for some new episodes.

8. Have I told you how much Zane loves music? He bobs his little head to the beat of every song on the radio, dances to the music on tv commercials, and  recently has started trying to jump to the music. He bends his little knees and tries so hard to jump to his favorite tunes. He will clap to the beat a well if prompted as well. I have to get some better kid song cds though, the ones I have currently kind of drive me crazy. Do they all do that?

9. I am trying to decide on a Halloween costumes for Zane. I am hoping that the Tiger costumes will still fit, however when we tried it on the other day he completely lost his mind when we put the hood/head part on. My mother in law has a pumpkin costume that would do, but I forgot to bring it back with us from SEMO. Maybe we can figure out a way to get it before Halloween.

10. In good news Zane loved watching the first Sooner Football game of the season. The Sooners scored on their first possession so he was awake for the touchdown celebration. He clapped and danced to boomer sooner and we worked on making the OU sign with this hands. This year his hands actually touch over his head, hooray!!!!! The Sooners won in a nail biter, for those of you who don't follow the Sooners, so we retained our number one ranking, for now.