What a Week!

Well, we have been having some crazy times around the Z-Ranch lately! It all started with "Typhoid Luke", as I now refer to him sometimes (not usually out loud!) Last week he started showing cold symptoms and quickly developed pink eye. John soon followed, and they both caught a pretty big cold. I was maintaining quite well, along with Eli and Zach, until bam! It hit me over the weekend, and really hasn't let up since. Zach and Eli are still fighting the good fight, so hopefully they won't succumb too. It's almost amazing that they aren't sick, with all of the transfer of germs that has to take place around here!

But in the midst of all this, which truly hasn't been easy, we have had some really awesome things happening with the boys. First, and most exciting, Eli has taken his very first steps! On Wednesday, we caught him moving between two bog toys that he holds on to walk around, and so I put him about a foot away and said, "Come see Mama!" and he took two little steps! It was so exciting! We were all there to see it too - how cool!

The other guys haven't taken any steps yet, but they're moving around pretty well when they have something to hold onto. The cool thing that Zach and Luke have been up to is they started chasing each other! Crawling, of course, one will go about 10 feet, look back, see the other guy coming, then they both laugh and laugh! They take turns as chaser and chasee - laughing the whole time. This is the first interaction between the boys that seems meaningful. They have always liked to touch each other, and for the last couple of months they take toys from each other, but this is really playing together. It's cool because this is the benefit of being a multiple, and we're starting to see it.

Sorry for the lack of pictures, but I really don't have the energy to do much more today, and I really wanted to tell everyone about Eli's steps! More to come soon!