Many faces of Zander

Taking pictures of the boys in their costumes today (entry coming soon), I realized I love the many faces of Zander.  His face is so expressive.  I'm mad at myself for switching the camera to a higher ISO, equalling the fuzzy quality of pictures.  I will tell you, though, it is dang hard to take up close pictures of him in low lighting and not have them turn out blurry.  Maybe as I figure out this new camera (Did I forget to mention our NEW CAMERA??) I'll get better.  Until that day (the day that I mysteriously have hours to read the manual and every other piece of literature ever posted online), we will have to deal with fuzzy, "noisy" pictures.

It's his eyes.  I can't get over his baby blues.

Oh yeah, I remember where I've seen them before...





"Really? Really, Zander?"

Oh, Zander. 

Let me take a big breath and remember all the cute, sweet, wonderful things you do while I try not to freak out about the half bottle of lotion you have pumped out all over the floor and rubbed in your hair.

Let me find my inner peace before I begin to guess how much of this lotion you've ingested.

The story -

Zander was pulled out of the nightly bath before he got his hair washed.

Zander was diapered and pajama'ed.

Zander has an affinity for the pink Johnson baby lotion.

Zander was left alone for five minutes with said lotion.

Zander pumped out and "washed" his hair with half of the bottle of lotion.

Zander was thrown back into the tub and had his hair washed again.

Moral of the story-

Zander's hair has a lovely lotionly sheen and his scalp is dandruff-free.

Maternity Photo Shoot

We did a family and maternity photo shoot the first Saturday of October.  The boys were a little crazy (aka noncooperative), but the weather and location were perfect.  I had a couple ideas of props I wanted to include and our photographer, Jami Nato (from Hello! from the natos) was so helpful and creative and had so many great ideas!  I really love all the photos, but here are the collection of my absolute favorites. 

Thanks again Jami!  They are so great!

Kerby Farm

Creating Wall Art

The link for recreating the wall shelves.

Update

I have been meaning to update this pretty much every day since the last post, but I guess life has gotten in the way. Life is crazy like that, getting in the way with it's twists and turns. While things haven't slowed down at all, the future is only going to get more hectic as October starts coming to a close. Try to keep up as I breeze over the last couple weeks.

- Matt flew in from South Korea and arrived on September 27th. We celebrated his arrival and birthday going to Buffalo Wild Wings. So good.

- We had a family and maternity photo shoot. The proofs of the pictures can be seen on my facebook. I promise to post the favorites on here as soon as I get the disc that has the full session on it.

- Matt and I took a tour at Shawnee Mission Medical Center, the hospital we've chosen to deliver at. This will be the first of our Brong babies delivered in a civilian hospital. Paperwork has been filled out and everything is ready for the arrival of Baby Brong #3.

- I am now being seen weekly by an OB/GYN, on Friday I was 37 weeks along. We are anxiously awaiting to see if baby girl is going to make an early appearance or if she'll be stubborn like her brothers and end up overdue.

- Before Matt left Korea, he was assigned orders to report to Fort Bliss, Texas (near El Paso) on November 10th. We haven't worked out the details of travelling to Texas yet. A lot of it depends on baby girl, when she makes her arrival and how that delivery goes.

- Gabe and Zander are both anxious for Halloween and are in possession of costumes. We decided on an Avengers theme this year, mostly because of the movie releases. Gabe chose to be Captain America, while we decided Thor and Zander's personalities were too similar to ignore.

- Gabe is doing fantastically in school. It's amazing how much he's learned even with it only being 3 hours a day. He's now reading three and four letter words at a time, sounding out words and starting to spell on his own. He has lots of friends that we hear about daily and has really come out of his shell. We are a little worried about how the transfer to Texas will affect him, but are hopeful that he'llbe able to make friends there as fast as he did here.

- Also in Gabe news, he has lost his first tooth, the bottom front left one. He still has three that are loose, the bottom front right and top front two. It will be interesting to see how he eats when they all are out. There is only one other friend at school that has lost a tooth and promptly told Gabe that the Tooth Fairy leaves a $100 bill under your pillow. Thankfully, Gabe was happy with the $1 bill his Tooth Fairy left.

In the meantime, we have been enjoying our family time. Zander is extremely happy to have his "Dada" back, as we all are.