When we weren't celebrating our little boys' birthdays this month (which does tend to occupy a LOT of January for us) we did do a few other fun things! We gave Chase the first Harry Potter book for his birthday (the illustrated version, it's beautiful!) and Chase and I had so much fun reading it together! I seriously looked forward to this milestone for years and it was so fun to share that book with him. He loved it and would bring it to me to read any spare minute we had. It only took us 10 days to finish! Once we were done we watched the movie together (in about four different sittings, we never found a big enough chunk of time to watch the whole thing). Now he's working on earning the 2nd book!
Davis is officially in the "getting into everything" stage. He loves to empty cupboards and bins and just generally make a mess. On this particular night he'd been really fussy, but going through our bathroom cupboards was making him happy, so I just sat back and took [poorly lit] pictures and laughed at him.
Ray and Diane got the boys a zoo pass for Christmas, so we used it for the first time! Hudson is such a zoo lover (and I think Davis will be too!) so I'm really excited to get to go a bunch this year. Our friends the Josephs and Rohbocks also have passes, so all of us met up there on a random Tuesday morning (that the kids had off school) and had a lovely time exploring the zoo together! I always feel pressure with these type of outings- try to get good pictures? Or just enjoy being with the kids? It seems hard to do both. So I mostly enjoyed the outing and company and as a result ended up with only a few sub-par pictures. It was a fun morning though!
This January was so weirdly warm! One 55 degree day I packed up my kids, grabbed a couple of the Bacciocco kids so they'd have playmates, and headed to the park! It was seriously glorious. I have no pictures of Chase and Luca, because they were running like crazy the whole time (they brought a frisbee). Nora (with the two babies) and Hudson have gotten to be cute little friends and had so much fun together, and I mostly pushed Davis on the swings. Another dad at the park asked me a little skeptically "How many kids do you have?!" I assured him only three, I brought a few extras, although ironically only one of the redheads was actually mine. (The Bacciocco kids have bright red hair just like Davis)
Davis is a glasses grabber. Also, his tongue is out like this all the time. I have about 13 pictures of this cute interaction with my dad, but this is what they always do together. Davis grabs his glasses and my dad "tries" to stop him.
We switched to 9:00 church and it's glorious! Also, I just love getting my kids all dressed up for church! I think they look so cute in their nice clothes, and I especially loved Davis in this little number Heidi got him. And now we all get Sunday naps after church!
This picture is just general Davis cuteness, every month goes by so fast and I can't believe how quickly we are approaching his first birthday! We spent a lot of this month just playing at home. It's made me realize a few things, one of which is how thankful I am for our home. I really love being here. While I generally like to get out and about and do stuff, it's nice to feel comfortable and happy to stay home as well. Also I've seen my kids bond more and more, which is the happiest to watch. My older boys disappear down to the basement to play for hours at a time (thanks mostly to new Christmas and birthday toys!). I used to dread January and felt like it dragged on and on forever, this year it flew by!
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