who does Zander look like?

I get this question all of the time and I really don’t have an answer. Tyler’s family and friends say he looks like Ty when he was a baby; my family and friends say he looks like me. It’s funny how one baby can resemble two people so closely, so I’m posting some pics and I’d like you to tell me once and for all – who does Zander look like?

Monumental Weekend

Well… today is Zander’s 5 month birthday.  Paige and I can’t believe how fast he is growing up and the amazing developments he is starting to reach.  Just over this weekend….

1) Zander had his first trip to the beach and touched sand for the first time (he loved it)

2) Zander jumped up to the next diaper size (#3)

3) Zander ate his first solid outside of rice cereal and had his first veggie tonight (carrots)

Flying with an Infant Tip #1

Sometimes my husband has a stroke of genius…remember, I said “sometimes.” Well, tonight was one of those times. We were taking Zander on the flight home from Colorado to Arizona and were getting ready to board the plane. Zander was hungry and tired, but we were trying to hold off feeding him until we got on the plane. Being that he was unhappy, he was crying at the terminal for quite a while. I was trying to calm him down and get him to stop crying, when Tyler had an amazing idea. “Let him cry and no one will want to sit by us once we get on the plane…we’ll get our own row.” We both chuckled at the idea, but realized that it might not be so bad after all. So, I proceeded to stop trying to make Zander be quiet and let him show the world his unhappiness. Did it work? Well, right now I’m on the plane typing this, stretched out with Ty in our very own row.

garden of the gods

Have you ever lived somewhere for a LONG time and just never gotten around to visiting that popular landmark that almost every tourist in the world has seen?  Well, I can now finally check one of those items off my list.  After growing up and living in Colorado for 18 years I never actually visited garden of the gods.  So during our first full day back in Colorado for our 4 day Easter trip, my brother (Grant) and his wife (Kerri) wanted to take us to see this beautiful red rock formation located in Colorado Springs.  So Paige and I left Zander to enjoy his grandparents and vice-versa, while we hiked around a windy and slightly cold park.  We watched some insane rock climbers scale the cliffs while we safely walked the sandy paths that simply went around the base of the rock formations.  The enormous red rocks were beautiful, but my favorite part was the conversation and jokes that we all shared.  After times like this I realize how much I miss living close to my brother and his wife.

First Plane Trip

let me just say that i’m typing this one handed while i feed z with my other hand…so i’m throwing capitalization and some punctuation out the door. we are just a few hours away from leaving for colorado for easter weekend and i must say i’m a little nervous. not to fly, of course, i’ve done that plenty of times. i’m so afraid of being that person – you know the one with the screaming baby…the one everyone talks about when they share their flight horror stories. i know i’ve done it…”stinkin’ kid screamed the whole way…why didn’t his parents do something about it?” now that i’m in that position, i think i should’ve cut them a little slack. let’s just hope that zander continues to be the angelic child he normally is. watch for the next blog – it’ll either be titled “my child is a monster” or “my child is angelic”…we’ll see…just pray that it is the latter.

Quiet House

For almost the past week now Paige and Zander have been on a trip to visit family all across the state of Colorado. Before you start to worry and think that I am a horrible husband/father for letting her and Zander travel by car to Colorado, please take note that she didn’t go alone. Paige’s parents were actually the ones leading the charge and Paige decided to join them in the adventure north. As they left I looked forward to reading a book and sleeping through the night without a cry from Zander to wake me up. However, after I got home from work and entered into our apartment I realized how quiet and boring the night was going to be (no food, no wife, and no kid). I slowly realized how much I would pick having a CRAZY house over a quiet house any day. Nonetheless, the rest of my weekend was filled with work, craziness, wedding showers, friends, and much more. Now I find myself eagerly waiting the return of my two favorite people. So is it just… my stomach that is ready for good home cooked food again? a need for companionship? a desire to use Paige’s Apple computer instead of my crappy PC? I say it is none of the above, but rather LOVE (hmmm… and maybe a little bit of the apple computer)!!! It is funny how you look back and can’t imagine your life without the people you love and live day-to-day with.

my kid’s cuter than yours

I never thought I would be one of those people who really thinks that my kid is the cutest one out there. I’m pretty honest, I told myself if I had an ugly baby I wouldn’t expect people to lie and say he was cute. I even admitted that Zander had a crazy-huge weird looking head when he was born. But now, I have lost all impartiality…all it takes is one look at his face and I’m sure that there’s never been anyone in the world as sweet, cute or precious as lil’ Zander. And it’s getting worse…everyday he just gets cuter. I guess it’s just hard-wired into moms – it’s probably good to know that at least there’s one person in the world who always thinks you are cute…your mom.

our little man has arrived!

Zander is here – I’m sure most of you have already heard, but we are pretty proud, so I’ll repeat the specs…

Zander Lang Staton
6lbs 14 oz, 20.5 inches long
born Nov. 25th at 10:43pm

He is a beautiful little guy and we are so excited to finally have him to make our family more complete.

37 weeks pregnant!!

Yippee…full term!

Baby Shower Pics

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