Fun weekend at home.

This weekend, we had a great BBQ with our neighbors on Friday night. Andrew worked at home for part of Saturday and Sunday we spent the day at the Woodland Park Zoo. This was the most fun time we have had as a family at the Zoo. William loved running around all of the exhibits and looking at the penguins, flamingos, gorillas, jaguar and the tropical birds. He ran from exhibit to exhibit sweating, and panting with his little heart thumping away go keep pace with his speed.
This evening, I snuck out for a nice early dinner break with Autumn and Jen. It was great to be together and to be able to talk without have our attention distracted by the activities of our toddlers.
I've been meaning to write about a few cute things that William is doing lately and I can never remember when I am actually sitting in front of the computer. Let's see what I can remember:

He loves carrying around a 6 pound plastic dumbell. He loves to help me water the plants by holding the hose.
He loves fruit and pasta/rice and his dinosaur chicken nuggets are the only way I can get animal protein into him at meal time.
He loves to feed himself yogurt and smoothies.
He loves to play with his cars and trucks best and can entertain himself with one truck for 20 minutes.
He loves television and will turn it on if given half the chance.
Last night we played Rock Band and he "sang" into the microphone to be like Mommy.
He loves dogs and will go up to them to "cuddle" by leaning into towards them.
He loves to go for walks down the street and on the green belt.
He weighed 28 lbs 8 oz at his 19 months old checkup and was 31 1/4 inches tall. (I'm not totally sure on his height).
He grunts to mimic me when I am gardening and he is "helping".
He seems to know how to be gentle with babies and will lean in and "cuddle" them and smile.
He says "Mama" all the time and has seperation anxiety right now. When anyone else picks him up he whines and calls out 'Mama" in a very sad voice.
He will "dance" when prompted and this consists of him stomping his feet and turning around. He can play "Ring around the rosey".
He likes to play a game when we go through tunnels where he ducks his head and says "Oooooooohhhhhh" with increasing volume and pitch until we exit.
He loves to read and be read to and tries to get us to read as many books as possible before bedtime by signing "More please".