It seems like within this last month Zach has grown up so much. For one thing, Zach has started pulling himself up using whatever he finds. This ends up being a problem when that something is too light to hold him up and he just pulls it on top of himself or when that something has wheels. Also, Zach has now discovered the fun times that come with pots and pans:
Now that Zach can pull himself up I always find him in a standing position when I get him up from naps and when he's fighting us in our attempts to put him to bed. Here's a picture after a nap (sorry it's so blurry):
The reason for more blurry pictures is Zach's reaction to the flash. He can be doing something really cute and then when the flash goes off his facial expression turns into something like the drugged-out look below. My best chances for a good picture are to turn off the flash and hope that Zach stops moving for a second which doesn't happen too often :).
After a bath the other night, Zach's hair randomly dried in this curl:
A new favorite toy. Zach figured out how to open up our dominoes. We often hear a crashing sound as they're pulled off the shelf and dumped all over the floor. Zach has also been known to carry them into other rooms.
We hung out with our friends Lukas and Casey the other night, and Zach had his first shot at playing Guitar Hero. He loved playing with the drumsticks. Now he just needs to be able to reach the drums...
Along with getting introduced to Guitar Hero Zach got to have fun with DDR. He loved it when I held him and moved his feet up, down, and side to side in time with the arrows.
Zach loves Cheerios and the Gerber Graduates puffs. At first he'd choke them down when we gave them to him. Then we found that he'd chew them when he was the one to put them in his mouth. It's been fun watching Zach learn how to handle the small cereal pieces. He will pick up a piece with one hand and then switch it to the other so it is easier to shove in his mouth.
On a final note for this post, we've been working on helping Zach sleep through the night. This has not been a fun process. Until early February he was waking up every 4 hours to eat. We decided that before getting Zach to sleep through the night we needed to help him learn to go through the night without eating. I started feeding Zach more often during the day so he wouldn't be so hungry at night.
Habits are hard to break and I've lost a lot of sleep from being kept up for sometimes an hour at a time. We've now got him to the point where he can last 8-10 hours during the night without food. Now we need to help him learn to sleep through this whole time period or calm himself down when he does wake up.
Here's a picture Derrick took one evening while he was working on homework. Losing hours of sleep in the middle of the night wears you out!
For the last picture on this picture-happy post, I really like this picture I took while Zach was sleeping. He uses the pacifier while falling asleep but we can tell he's really asleep once he spits it (or in this case pulls it) out of his mouth.
As has already been mentioned, Jen is pretty much the coolest ever and treats me very well. To celebrate our two short years of bliss, we nabbed a babysitter for Zach for a couple of hours and went out on the town. (and by out on the town I mean picnic and a 5:30 movie- that's about as wild as Provo gets these days) Here's a love pic from our stop at Coldstone's at the end:
Because of my new church calling, I was in charge of our ward's "stuff swap" last Tuesday. After all the dropping off and picking up people did I got to pack up and figure out how to get all the left over stuff to DI. This was made more difficult by the fact that our car isn't working at the moment. That night Derrick helped me pack up the stuff to store. On Thursday I managed to find a guy from the ward who very nicely helped me move the stuff to his truck and then he drove the load to DI. On Friday a truck thing like this was parked in our parking lot.
Park City: At the end of March my parents and brother Garrett spent a few days in Provo and then a week at a condo in Park City for Garrett's spring break. We were able to join them for a few days and nights. Derrick commuted back and forth so he could keep going to class and work. We watched movies, played games, ate tons of snacks, and Zach got lots 
of attention from Grandma and Grandpa Jones. The downsides were that Zach had a hard time sleeping in his pack-n-play so nights were really long and my mom and Garrett got pretty sick for part of the time. Melissa, Nate, Jason, Cassie, and some of the extended Jones family also joined the fun.
Grand Junction: For the last weekend in March we drove down to visit Derrick's family in Grand Junction, CO. We went for the family birthday party for our nephew Ryan. He turned 2 on April 1st. Zach and Ryan are able to interact better each time we go. They played together a little bit and Zach was in heaven with all the trash from Ryan opening his presents.
Zach doesn't seem to sleep well away from his crib so we were up again for hours during the nights. Thankfully Mom/Grandma Bowen was kind enough to take the morning shift so could get some sleep. Zach loved having so much room to crawl around and explore. He had his first taste of stairs and kept climbing up them. We had to watch him very carefully since he doesn't know how to go safely back down.
Conference Weekend: We had a lot of fun conference weekend with my mom and Derrick's parents in town. We surprised my mom in on Thursday night when she arrived at my grandparents' house in Sandy. Zach learned how to cruise along the side of the fireplace. Ever since he's been cruising along our furniture and even standing alone for several seconds at a time. Couches are no longer safe territory from baby.
We had a crepe party with my mom, Melissa, and Nate during the Saturday morning session. Between sessions the girls all went to Plato's closet where I got to pick out some birthday clothes. It was amazing to find 3 pairs of pants (that actually fit me) for a total of $47! Mostly it's places like Gap and the Buckle that actually sell pants long enough. After picking up some Wendy's we all met back up at our apartment. Zach really enjoyed the parts of conference when the choir sang. He'd stop what he was doing and come watch. He especially loved the choir and congregation songs and would get really excited and laugh.
23: I turned 23 last Thursday. Derrick did a lot to make it a good day. He work off so he could spend more time with Zach and me. He had 2 dozen roses delivered to our apartment and made me dinner. Later that night Melissa, Nate, Jason (my twin), and Cassie all came over to hang out and eat strawberry shortcake. After they left we watched "Bolt". Most of my clothes no longer fit because I lost a lot of weight from nursing and getting sick so most of my presents were ... clothes! It was a pretty low-key birthday but I enjoyed it.
Though we've been feeding Zach solid foods for almost 3 months, we had yet to get him anything like a high chair. Usually I'd have him sit on my lap and feed him from behind. Sometimes, when both of us were home, one of us would play the role of high chair and hold Zach in place while the other would do the feeding.
Zach loves his Uncle Garrett
