Zander Walks!!!

Last week was beautiful! Zoey had a blast playing outside. Then March left us with yotsa yotsa snow! Today was another beautiful day--so when I brought the kids home from daycare, Zoey and I stayed outside and made a "teacher snowman." Zoey didn't quite get the hang of rolling a snowball (all though she is very good at eating it), so I gave her the job of finding rocks to make the face, since we didn't have any carrots on hand. She handed me rocks for the eys and mouth. Then she went back and got a rock for the eyebrow. The last rock she handed me was for the hair and as she did she said, "This will about do it." Such a little adult! (I am preparing myself for the devastation that she may have tomorrow that her teacher snowman has melted. . .but I tried to preempt that today.)


Zander is 8 months and we consider him to be a crawler--or at least mobile! (April Fools for those of you who thought that this blog title was true.) He can definitely get from point A to point B--quickly! He can find every small thing on the floor that mommy and daddy should have picked up. He can not sit by himself for very long--I think it is more because he knows that sitting means he stays in one place and he likes to be on the move.

Zoey has been such a sweet big sister lately. Tonight Zander started crying and Zoey stopped what she was doing and went over to Zander saying, "It's alright Zander, I'm here." She caresses his head and hugs her in that almost too tight sort of way--it is really sweet.