He's growing so fast!

Everything is changing so quickly! In just this last week he got his first two teeth! They are just starting to poke through his gums and I think they are hurting him pretty bad right now. He is also a rolling machine now!
He is just rolling all over the place. It was so funny because he rolled his first time at about three months old then just never did it again until a couple weeks ago. Now he is rolling all the time! He is also starting to rock back and forth on his hands and knees which I hear means he's working on learning how to crawl! Crazy huh? He is such a cutie!
As for Trent and I not a whole lot has changed. Trent is crazy busy with school and he's been spending a lot of time going to recruiting activities and interviewing for another summer internship. I'm not up to anything new really, just working and taking care of the babe. Well, that is our latest update! P.S. These are pics of Zack going for his favorite yet off limits toy...my cell phone. See how good he is at getting onto his hands and knees?

He's getting better at going to sleep!

Tonight he only cried 15 minutes before he went to sleep! Isn't this cute? He sleeps holding onto the bumper like this almost every night. I just love him!

Back to school

Well, Trent's new semester has officially started! He is taking 15 credit hours plus working 15 hours a week and babysitting Zack three nights a week while I work. I'm not sure how he's going to do it all!
Things are going very well for us. We are excited that we are finally starting to settle down into a scheduled life again after such a chaotic summer. We started doing sleep training with Zack and it is awesome! He is sleeping through the night now (except he wake's up once or twice to eat) and he can put himself back to sleep at night. It is such an improvement! Day's are another story. We tried doing the "cry it out" thing but after three days of letting him cry for an hour and him not figuring it out I decided to wait until he can go to sleep at night without crying and then move to the days. He is much easier to get to sleep now so that is good. Anyway, that is the latest news for us!

THE CRUISE!

There is so much to tell about our awesome cruise! So we traveled all day Saturday which was hard but Zack was a good sport about it and then on Sunday we were able to board the cruise ship. There were 14 decks and tons of pools and hot tubs and game areas and of course dining areas. The food was awesome, I probably gained a hundred pounds from eating so much good food all week!
So let me give you the run down. On Monday we cruised all day on the ship, we spent the day swimming in the pools, exploring the huge ship and eating lots of yummy food. One of the most fun parts of the cruise was the crew. Zackary just fell in love our waitress for dinner (there was a formal meal every night for dinner and we had the same waiter and waitress every night). On Monday night Zack was in a really good mood and every time she would give him attention he would laugh hysterically, he just loved her and it was soooo cute! From that day on people were coming up to us and saying "is this Zackary?" He was famous all across this ship and he just LOVED all the attention he got!

On Monday we stopped in Barbados and Rich and Joanne were nice enough to take Zack and babysit while Trent and I went on an ATV tour. It was awesome! We rode ATV's up to the top of the island and looked at the beautiful view then we drove them down to a beach that was of course extremely beautiful!

On the second day we went to St. Lucia. For our adventure we went to a BEAUTIFUL beach on the Caribbean side where the water was aqua blue and perfectly calm. Although it was probably the prettiest beach we went to I didn't enjoy it as much as the others because there was no shade and no wind so it was WAY too hot for Zackary. He had a pretty miserable time there which makes it rather hard to just kick back and enjoy life if you know what I mean. :)
On day three we went to Antigua, it was a very pretty island but after Zack had such a hard time the day before we just got off the ship for some shopping and didn't do much else there.
Day four was probably my favorite. The island we stopped at was St. Maarten which is actually a very small island that basically lives off the tourists coming. But it was very beautiful. We took a tour that went to a butterfly farm and then to a beach. The butterfly farm was really fun and Zack really loved watching them! Then we went to the beach which was very beautiful and this time we had a bit of a breeze and lots of shade so it was much better for Zackalack. The other thing that made the day fun was we had a really funny and dynamic tour guide that made the drive time very enjoyable.
The last stop we made was to St. Thomas or as you might know it the U.S. Virgin Islands. You could really tell it was owned by the U.S. too. There were tons of stores that you see every day and it was very Americanized. We had fun there too, we went to a beach and Trent and I rented a wave runner and drove it around in the ocean. The coolest part was Trent saw a huge sea turtle. I missed so we drove around to find it again but we never did. It sure was crazy driving a wave runner in the ocean though, it was pretty rough and we had water in our eyes almost the whole time. But it was an awesome adventure!
The islands were so beautiful and it was fun to see how different the cultures were when you went from one island to another.
The cruise ship was AMAZING! I couldn't believe how huge it was and there were lots of fun things to do. I loved the formal dinners at night because Zack had so much fun with our waitress and all the other waiters that loved to give him attention.