Oh Glorious Swinging Colortful Surprises

Once again Zach has managed to keep us on our toes. After years of trying to get Zach to expressively and receptively communicate his colors, just 2 weeks before starting kindergarten, he demonstrated it for us. It amazed me how all that effort and he just casually did it for us one day.

And then there was yesterday, once again, we have been trying to get Zach to independently swing for so long. Instead, he would hop on and do what I had nicknamed the "pendulum" where he would swing back and forth and all around like a weight at the end of a string. Semi-hazardous I might - so we had reduced our play set to one swing for quite awhile just to avoid trips to the local medical emergency facilities.

Well yesterday, he hopped on one swing. And I hopped on the other. I made a game of him bumping into me - and teasingly yelled "bump" every time we collided. Although I laughed at every bump, he did not like this. Then it happened. He just began to pump and go straight! I was like "holy cow". And once again - my kid surprised the snot out of me. My mother in law pulled up into the driveway and I called to her - she was surprised as well and yelled a "way to go Zachary" to him. I asked her to stand watch so I could grab the video camera. And now my dear readers, I present to you, my independent swinging in a safe way son in his next video: Zach swinging on a star....