host with the most

Zane has had another busy week.  He co-hosted his first party yesterday with me to celebrate his dad's upcoming birthday by watching the Michigan football game with friends.  Even though he was napping when the guests arrived, he fully turned on his charm once he woke up.  Zane also showed off his new skills by moving backwards, turning, and bouncing.  He's moving around more and more every day it seems.  He still goes backward from a crawling position, but he's scooting around sideways and in a circle while sitting now.  Zane also finally showed us a re-do of the big roll over he did back in July like it was no big thing, and then he continued to move all around in his own way without doing it again. :)   

Zane still has a big toothless grin, but he's been having a really hard time sleeping - waking up once or twice a night crying before going back to sleep - this last week.  Which means we all have a hard time sleeping.  Early this morning was particularly rough.  I'm pretty sure I can see something starting to push up, but no one else seems to see anything in there... maybe it's wishful thinking on my part that it's about to break through soon so that we can go back to sleeping all night again.  

We also went to a pumpkin patch today with some friends in search of the Great Pumpkin.  It was a gorgeous fall day, so it seemed like a good photo op.  It was actually really bright and sunny, but our Seattle baby isn't a huge fan of sunshine when it's that bright.  We managed to get a few good shots though, and he even got to sit on a big tractor:

 Zane's special message for tonight:  Happy Birthday Eve, Daddy!!!!