Zach's Birthday!

Zach is officially 1 years old! He is a such a funny, happy, curious little cutie! For his birthday we started the day with balloons in his crib. he had a lot of fun and luckily none of them popped and scared him. 

Thanks to Stephanie, we have fabulous pictures of Zach! 

I decided to make Zach's cake with cars and circles since he loves to play with balls and cars!

He had lots of help opening his presents!

I don't know if there has been any baby eating his smash cake so carefully. He would just stick his little finger in the frosting put it in his mouth. We tried to help him by cutting into it, but he didn't seemed very interested. 

What he did end up wanting to eat was the marshmallow fondant car that was on the top of the other cake. Since it is basically 100% sugar I could see why. So much for trying to make a healthier smash cake for him. 

1 Year Old

Zach stands on his own and can take a couple of steps, no teeth yet and very little hair! He loves playing with balls. Dad has taught him to throw so they have a catch practically every day. He dances all the time and loves to babble. He can say momma and dada, nom nom for when he is hungry and then everything else is mainly babble. He points at everything, he loves getting into cabinets and pulling everything out. He is an adventurous active cutie and I love it!

His best friend is Max which is below. They are only about 1 week apart so it's really cute to see them interact with each other. 

Shelby came and surprised me! I had no idea she was coming! I answered the door and there she was!!! I cried and screamed; basically the same reaction as my mom had when I surprised her. We did a lot of fun things together. We got the Philadelphia city pass. We went to the zoo. 

It was freezing and there were basically no animals out, but there were a couple of indoor places. 

We took the bus tour (again freezing)

Zach is wanting to be outside, but the stupid snow ruins everything. 

We went to the please touch museum which is probably one of the best places in the world to bring kids. I love it probably as much as Zach does. Here he is channeling his inner Mozart. 

The Franklin Institute and I made Shelby take a picture next to the heart since she is a nurse :)

And the Camden Aquarium. 

9 Months Old

9 months old! He has been so fun and this has been a really fun month. He is crawling around everywhere, laughing all the time and gets into just about everything he can. Fall is such a great time to live in Pennsylvania because it is so beautiful here. We went to Linvilla all the time because it's just a couple of minutes from our house and has something called Pumpkin land during the fall. 

He was a shark for Halloween. I saw it on pinterest and I thought it was so adorable and he made it that much more adorable. :) 

His first time playing with bubbles! He loved it, he kept trying to eat them so luckily they pop when he touches them. 

8 Months Old

8 months old. Where does the time go? He has been one busy traveling baby. He has been on 3 flights now and went out of the country once (too bad he won't be able to remember). This month we went to Florida with Grandma Itri. It was a great trip and grandma taught Zach how to crawl so he is an official crawler going all over the place. He has made noises that sound like mama and dada, but I'm still not sure if we can count it or not.... 

He likes to sleep like this, with one foot on the crib and no socks on (no matter how many time and types of sock we put on him)

He likes hanging out in boxes...

Officially crawling! Thanks to Grandma Itri for working with him all the time on the vacation :)

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We had a very fun trip to Florida! The weather is so beautiful and we had a great time with Grandma Itri.