Recently we took Aidan on his very first visit to our renowned Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, S.C. The zoo was featuring 4 baby lion cubs, which was became a very popular attraction. Bryan is very fond of lions and wanted to share his excitement about the cubs with his little cub Aidan.

It has been awhile since our last post...things are still crazy as ever. Aidan was blessed by Bryan on July 6 and I`d be willing to bet that this blessing set the record for number of men standing in the circle....I quit counting at fifteen. There was one very special person missing, however, my dad Paul, who is a missionary over in Southern Africa and will be home this spring....yay! Aidan has begun to scoot quite efficiently around our living room and I fear will soon be crawling. Baby-proofing, here we come. He has rather recently become quite vocal, which mostly just includes screaming and squawking and a couple of syllables that translate as giii and mama. He is now a pro at most solid foods and eats about as much as a baby twice his age, but who am I to deny my baby his hearty appetite? Also he received his first ever bruise(courtesy of the scooting, that TV cabinet just would not move out of his way) and was not at all bothered by it. Of course, as most afflictions do, it bothered Mommy more than baby. Kelly is very excited about the upcoming holiday...Halloween has always been her favorite for some reason. She thinks it may have something to do with all that delicious candy. Bryan is simply excited for the semester to be over, because even though he will hopefully have more of a classload next semester, it is still one more semester closer to being through. Harley continues to be his usual self, lying around and begging for treats, people food, and attention, and barring access inside our house to anyone he thinks doesn`t need to be here. That`s about all I can think of for now, but more will happen, as always, hopefully all good.

We are still working hard as ever trying to keep with our daily lives. Bryan is still working and going to school and loving the role of being a dad. Because her life wasn`t crazy enough watching a child at home in addition to caring for Aidan, Kelly has added in the responsibility and stress of going to school online to enable her to do medical transcription at home. She has had some interesting days lately. The most recent involved Aidan flipping a full bowl of cereal over on both of them, cold milk and all. It was pretty fun to clean up and time consuming. Aksel(the little boy she watches) thought that he would help her by walking through it and then tracking it all over the house. She also had the joy of cleaning up apple juice trailing from one end of the kitchen to the other. That one took a few tries to completely get up all the stickyness. Despite the trials and adventures, our lives are an enormous blessing, and we wouldn`t change a thing.

Introducing Our Family

Hi! Our names are Bryan and Kelly Zingmark, and we have two boys....a thirteen year old husky lab mix named Harley, and a two month old baby named Aidan. Bryan is working full time and going to school part time, and I am a stay at home mom and a housewife. We were all born in Columbia, SC. Bryan is 32 and I am 23. Aidan carries quite an interesting story with him...he is the sixteenth great grandchild in both families, and also the only one on Bryan`s side that will carry on out last name into the next generation until we have more boys. He was also the largest baby born at the hospital for the time period we were there...he weighed 10 pounds and 2 ounces. We are so thankful for all that we are blessed with in our lives, especially our two boys that bring us more joy and happiness than they could ever know.