baking with the Z

First Z bread of the season

Made Friday afternoon and gone by Sunday morning

oppss or not! 

and a add on

Enjoying a wedding on a Saturday night

at Bieker Farms- beautiful location and barn reception 

it was raining but it held off for most of the ceramony

and a pretty flower to end it all 

look at me

do....

wear camo pants :) 

conquer crawling and practice practice practice

right up the camera [he loves all the buttons on it!]

must continue to practice in the morning

fall weather calls for Jeans

my first pair from my aunt Betsy :)

just relaxing

7 months going on 2 years old 

haha

pulling myself up and standing

one thing at a time bud!  mamas heart needs you to slow down 

another cute piece of clothing compliments of the other aunite B!

that is a wrap of look at me 

7th inning

or 7th month Birthday

oh Arie little man...you hit SEVEN, SEVEN months old

ok...so this month has brought about the most active change

he finally got crawling down...after a lot of work and effort

He did it! 

and his so proud of himself and loves to get around

and discover and go were he is not suppose to [stairs]

likes to crawl towards me or on me :)

each day I think his little personality shows more and more

1. stats: about 18lbs. 10oz.

2. eating real food twice a day

prefers fruit: blueberries, applesauce, bananas vegs: carrots, sweet potato...or anything that has applesauce on top.  even tried fish this month and seemed ok with it :) 

3. crawling and even trying to pull himself up

4. giggles and giggles and claps his hands

5. a tiny bit of stranger danger [mostly when tired or a lot of people around]

likes his toes...and occasionally gets them in his mouth

can't wait to see what the next month brings :) 

comparison

facebook promptly reminded me on Aug 19 that I took a picture

It was with Ben in 2011, when he was 7 months old

so I decided to take the same photos with Arie on Aug 19, 2015 :)

so fun to see them at the same age!

Ben had a little more hair than Arie does :) he is getting there 

cheering on

Arie's first race

cheering on Mr. CJ and Mrs. Kim in the ironman

we had a great time watching

and feel so bad that the event was cancelled

such great people watching!

cousins part two

we just wrapped up cousin time with Js family

started out with a few days at out house

Carrot cake birthday celebration for a four year old 

sharing toys :)

Trying out the MVP

Then it was off to Traverse City for 10 days [for me and Arie at least]

beach time

celebrated turning 7 months old!

he successfully crawled to his reward the window and curtains

yippee

loving the outdoors

so thankful for grammy staying all 10 days with us! 

the sunset was just beautiful

cottage time

playdough

relaxing

food trucks on a Wednesday night

and shopping downtown

new pretty flower

celebrating Js birthday!

happy happy birthday papa

the whole family

one last beautiful day at the cottage

one last day

celebrating papas real birthday

a boys kayaking trip

arie fell asleep :) 

thanks grammy and grandpa for letting us stay with you!

happy real birthday J

 plum tuckered out

home sweet home

cousins part one

traverse city

girls plus grandpa. arie and ben

 

when the papa is away the girls play :)

 

checking out the sand

 

 

playing in the water

 

or play in the back of the paddle boat

 

have some help with Arie :)

 

taking a walk downtown to the farmers market. marina. and splash pad

 

cousins

 

We had a blast of a weekend!!