Lucky Number 7

Today Zach turned 7!  Can you believe it??!!  We find it hard to believe that it has already been 7 years since he was born.  He definitely rocked our world and changed everything.  At 7 he is still a smarty pants, loves Legos and cars/racetracks, has become a solid reader in both English and Spanish, loves a good joke, has become more adventurous in trying new foods, can ride a bike without training wheels, sleeps in the top bunk and likes to slowly wake up in the mornings.  He loves to play with his friends and even his little brother (most days) although he gives Gunnar a hard time.  Zach adores his little sister but she owns him.

This boys was lucky enough to celebrate his birthday with Disney as well as a LEGO party with his friends. Today he simply asked to stay home all day and play with his new toys.  Done!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZACH!!!  We love you!!

Happy Halloween!!

I couldn’t find a cuter policeman, Kid Flash or ladybug if I tried!  It was a little chilly but we had so much fun trick or treating.  Happy Halloween!!

At The Intersection of Kitchen, Living Room, and Bedrooms

Well, someone is pretty excited about their Halloween costume and is taking the role very seriously.  Check out Zach getting fully into his Halloween persona.

(Backup) Goodbye Summer, Hello Fall

I kept meaning to do an update with photos from our summer adventures but the Indian summer weather we've had here had me thinking summer wasn't really over.  Here  are a few summer highlights.

We spent a long weekend in Elkhart Lake, WI with Nana and Boppa.

Hazel turned 1!!

We spent a long weekend in Missouri at Lake of the Ozarks with some of our friends.

We camped in the backyard!

We had a block party with fire trucks!

We had a lot of random fun on bikes (Zach learned to ride without training wheels), at the beach and just playing outside.

Made it to the Willis (aka Sears) Tower in Eclipse day.

We spent a weekend in Louisville, KY for a friend's wedding and luckily had Nana and Boppa meet us so the kids could have fun while we were at the wedding. We hit up the Louisville Slugger Museum (worth it!).

And now we are all back in the routine of school and soccer.  

Sorry for such a long post but I wanted to make sure I got all these pictures up of summer.  I wish we had seen all of you that live far away.  Come visit!!  Chicago in the fall is lovely.  Plus everyone is excited about post season baseball.  Go Cubs!!

1st Grade Begins!

Zach had his first day of school today and I think it was pretty great.  He was excited to go to school and excited to tell me all about his day.  Of course he said his favorite part of the day was going home.  Ha!!

School Days Are Back Again

Have I really not updated the blog since June?!  We clearly had a busy summer.  I'll try to do a summer update post in the next week or two. 

As for now, today was Gunnar's first day back at preschool!  He was excited to head back and see his buddies.  He has a new teacher this year but she has been at the preschool for a while so we are all familiar with her.  When we asked him how his day was we got a simple reply of "good!"  That will most likely be about as much information as we will get from him.  His school days will mostly be a mystery to us but he thrives in his own little school world.