Our growing baby boy and the first haircut

Zach is a fun baby boy. Being the third child, he unfortunately hasn't had nearly enough pictures taken to document his cuteness. But here are some of our favorite shots from the last few months.

Zach loves to play (er...pound on) the piano. Future pianist in the making!

He has really been enjoying his bath time lately, which is usually a shared experience with one of his sisters.

 

 Standing up!

 

Zach started crawling at 10 months old. It was an exciting family home evening when he suddenly started crawling across the floor! Now he moves pretty quick across the floor, and is happy to explore when he isn't thwarted by his big sister Lily. 

Lily really loves to hold Zach. So much so that Jared coined a new phrase: 

Liliphobia: a very rational fear of one's older sister. This is particularly present in young children under the age of 1. It's often related to over-zealousness by said older sister.

After much debate, Jared and I decided that it was really time for Zach's first haircut. It was so sad to cut off his beautiful blonde hair, but he does look a lot more groomed and is still super cute.

In his chair before the cut.

 The after view. By this point he wasn't too happy with us.

Here is our good looking boy today after church.

Six years old

It's hard to believe that our beautiful Christmas baby is 6 years old already. Wow!

Anwyn turned 6 on Christmas Day, but this year we decided to hold off all birthday celebrations for one month. It made it a lot simpler to be able to separate our Christmas and birthday celebrations.

So January 25th was the big birthday day.

 

Anwyn got a fun activity play center for her zhu zhu pet hamsters, and a little pet rabbit and kitty. We certainly have a lot of battery powered little critters in our house now! She also got a Mercy Watson book (a great new series by Kate DiCamillo that we are really enjoying).

She requested teriyaki meatballs and rice for dinner, and got to eat on the blue plate.

She had a small party with her two best friends, Claire and Leah, the following Saturday. The theme was a "Pretty Pink Party". The girls came in their pretty princess dress-up clothes, we decorated with pink balloons and streamers, they played and did a pink craft, and finished off with a pink cake.

Anwyn is such a sweet girl, and we are so glad to have her in our family.

Catching up on the holidays

We have been a little absent from this blog for awhile, pretty much starting with Halloween and continuing through the holiday season. Life has been busy! To sum up, here are the brief highlights:

Christmas was a quiet affair at home. Christmas Eve we ate Chinese food, then sang carols (accompanied by Anwyn), and told the story of the birth of Jesus. 

 

In the morning we enjoyed our new things. 

 

In the afternoon we took the new scooters out for a spin (it's lovely to be in Florida when you have perfect weather for playing outside during the holidays!).

December was a busy month of parties (ward, Jared's lab, school), a piano recital, and making gifts and treats.

We also had our annual Polar Express movie watching pajama party.

We did have some not-fun sick days mixed in, and caught the girls both asleep on the couch together one afternoon.

We celebrated Thanksgiving with the Kays. Jared did a great job of brineing the turkey, while Janene and I handled the rest of the meal. Everything was delicious!

In November, Anwyn mastered riding a bike-no training wheels! Lily loves to ride the tricycle, and Zach is pretty content in the stroller. We spend many afternoons outside!

 

And because I know Janene still wants to see these pictures, here are the Halloween costume pictures that never got posted. We had 2 princesses and a frog (although I'm sure Zach will turn into the prince someday!)

Anwyn as a fairy princess.

Lily as a fairy princess.

Zach as a frog.

There, I'll consider us caught up.

Merry Christmas 2010

May your Christmas season be filled with joy and laughter.

With love,

Jared, Kristi, Anwyn, Lily, and Zach

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Provo Tabernacle On Fire

Those of you who have been to Provo or lived in Provo know the Provo Tabernacle. It caught fire this morning and looks like it will be a complete loss. This is very sad. We've been to a number of meetings and concerts there over the years.

Provo Tabernacle on fire - ksl.com

Mindy Gledhill's Music

We really enjoy Mindy Gledhill's music. She's a Provo, UT based musician. Our daughters absolutely love some of her songs.

Here's one of her new songs:



Mindy Gledhill is doing a giveaway on her blog: http://mindygledhill.blogspot.com/2010/12/on-2nd-day-of-christmas-butterfly-wings.html

A little of what I do

White matter fibers passing through the brainstem. Most of these are motor (traveling to the spinal cord) and sensory fibers (traveling from the spinal cord). Colors indicate primary direction that the fibers are traveling: red = left/right; green = front/back; blue = up/down.

White matter fibers of the corpus callosum, which connects the two brain hemispheres together. Colors represent directionality: red = left/right; green = front/back; blue = up/down.