January in Review

Looking back at realized I haven't blogged too much this past month of our daily happenings. I will try to do better. As a result here is a longer post of our month.

This was Zachery's 9th month and it has been busy.

Zachery's top four teeth came in this month, all at the same time!! He did pretty well with this. A fourth came in on the bottom just broke through now he has 8 pearly whites.

With all this teething comes a lot of chewing. Zachery loves chewing on things, and we often his him crawling around with something hanging out of his mouth. His chew toy of choice are socks. I have had to make sure all dirty socks are off the floor and if we go out, Zach has to wear shoes or his socks get pulled off and go right in the mouth.

Another favorite chew item is this My Little Pony hat.

Zachery has decided he isn't interested in jar food as much. He wants the real stuff. We have been busy grinding our dinners for him. He has also enjoyed mushing food himself with this mesh feeding thingy. He loves eating apples with this. Another favorite food are bananas.

I fins this habit very cute. Every once in a while he'll lay his head down on the couch for a little 10 second rest.

And this month for Zachery's latest achievement is standing on his own.

He can easily push himself up off the floor and stand. He is enjoying this new trick, but he absolutely refuses to try taking a step. He'll only attempt walking if we hold onto both his hands instead of just one. We have tried to cox him to take a step or two and he always gets down on his knees, even if an object he desires is a half an inch out of reach. But that is ok, I'm not ready for him to be walking.


This month we took the kids roller skating for the first time. They had a blast. Savannah was extremely found of the sport. Both her and RJ did a great job with very little falls.

Savannah has been very much into wearing dresses lately. She has always loved too, but this month her love for them has seemed to increase. She gets excited for Sunday's when she can wear some of her "fancier" dresses. This one is a new favorite that she got for Christmas. The day I took this picture was a day when she picked out her hair style from a hair blog and she was very good during the long styling session.

Showing off her pink glitter shoes.

This month we started a Mommy and Me Preschool with Savannah and some of the other kids and mothers in the ward. She was so excited to start Preschool. We had it at our home for the first day. It was fun teaching and the kids all seemed to have a blast. We have four mother's teaching it and five kids. Just the right amount.

Here is a cute picture of Savannah and Daddy reading the Children scriptures before bed.

We made it this month to DC. We drove up on a Friday night and got a great deal on a fancy hotel using Price Line. Jared went through a session at the Temple late Friday night while I got the kids to bed. Saturday morning I met up with an old High School friend, Heather, and her husband and we did a session at the Temple while Jared took the kids to one of the Smithsonian buildings.

Heather and Chad are living in Pittsburg, they are also in the Washington DC temple district. So this was planned to met in DC which is about a 4 hour drive for each of us. It was fun visiting with her again, since we have only gotten together maybe a hand full of times since high school. After the Temple we all had lunch together at a really good diner called The Diner in downtown DC.

After lunch we went to the Air and Space Smithsonian building before heading home.

RJ was so excited to go to the museum. He wanted to see everything from the movie "Night at the Museum". We didn't get to see Everything! The place is HUGE! But we hope to get back in March and do it again.

This month RJ received the Student of the week award. This was very exciting for him. His name was up with his picture and a little interview of his favorites on the school bulletin. He has also been reading more and more. He read the entire Green Eggs and Ham book and a few other Doctor Seuss books and gets so excited that he can read THAT many pages.