Ten in Tuesday

1. After Zane initially broke his grill, Zach has fixed it, added an "ash tray" between the legs for more stability, and it is now back to being fully functional. I got Zane a big plastic steak to grill. Added bonus, it's actually a dog toy, so it squeaks too. He loves it. Here is grilling up two steaks and some cheese.

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2. Zach also fixed Zane's adventure hat, adding the much needed neck strap, to keep it from flying away during adventures. It also doubles as a helmet, which for Zane is a good thing. First adventure with the new hat, a worm hunt, which was very successful. Here is Zane with his huge, daddy worm, find. 

 3. This weekend I tried to get a picture of all the Korenak men, this was as close as I could get. Don't be fooled, Zane sat there for exactly the two seconds it took to take this picture.

 4. Look at my two adorable little boys. Zane is, at baseline, a bit of a crazy person. He is always going 100mph, but for the most part he is very gentle with his little brother. Sometimes the pats do get a little aggressive, but he gives perfectly gentle kisses on Rowan's head all the time. It melts my heart. I know they will be best buddies soon.

 5. It was summer time weather again on Sunday and Zane was so excited to get to wear shorts. He came out of his room, after dressing himself, with this fun outfit on. Actually he had on two tank tops and just his batman underwear at first, but by the time I found the camera this was the end result. Hysterical! The pirate socks are courtesy of Grammi, they are a little big, but he loves them!

 6.I'm pretty sure there is a photo of me, at this age, actually painting our old farm house, wearing one of my dad's t-shirts. Zane wasn't actually painting, so much as painting with water, but he reminded me of the photos of my siblings and I painting our house back in the day.

 7. I can't help but post these two pictures of my adorable little boys. They were both in rare form on Sunday, super happy, and fun. Zane has been having some rough days, specifically with the pooping in the potty, and throwing fits over nothing, but I try to always picture this smiling face through all the battles we are currently fighting. I'm also trying to soak in every moment with the calm, cool, collected Rowan we currently have. I'm well aware that in no time he too will be running crazy.

 8. This weekend we finally got to make ice cream. Zach's parent's got us this ice cream maker for Christmas and Zane has been requesting to make ice cream ever since. I have to say the strawberry ice cream we made, per Zane's pink ice cream request, was some of the best home made ice cream I have ever had. Can't wait to try some more flavors this summer.

9. Quick potty training update, Zane still has not gotten buzz lightyear for those of you wondering. It has been almost three weeks now, trying to get five days with no accidents. He has been a few hours away from getting him a couple days, then proceeds to poop in his pants upon arriving home from daycare. He hasn't had any accidents at daycare for two weeks, yes he poops there, no problem. This is infuriating, because we know that he knows how to do it. Trying some new methods, mainly not giving him as much attention when he has an accident. He has every form of reward set up, so I'm close to being out of ideas. Needless to say we are running out of Spiderman undies, since they get thrown away if they get poop in them. Sigh...

10. I think we are all turning the corner into feeling better again. I went through the whole list of congestion, soar throat, cough ect. as predicted last week and Zane has had a little cough and runny nose as well. I think we are both on the up and up, just in time for Grandma's arrival this evening. I am hoping the down pours of rain stop soon so we can go outside some with Grandma this week!