january

This has been a month of dress-up, tea parties, board games, park play dates…

Jocie- loves: harmonica, picking out outfits, turning on and off light switches, keys, eating carrotts

Can do: say some more words (shoes, choo choo, baby), go down slides by herself, pull her hair back in pigtails (but she pulls them right out)

Garrett- loves: imaginative play with superhero toys and cars, Alvin and the chipmunk songs, and his new board games- chutes and ladders and ned's yucky head

Can do: sing a few primary songs he learned in his first month of primary at church, read spiderman comic book with his TAG reading system pen, tell his own Batman Garrett stories, sing the abcs by himself

Betsey- still “with child” I told myself this baby would be 6 weeks early ( gar was 2 and jocie 4) and ive only been disappointed. Im very thankful not to have to worry about a NICU stay now that weve made it past 37 weeks. Ive reduced my grocery trips to weekly instead of 2x a month. Just easier to accomplish but everytime I go or everytime laundry days rolls around I tell myself it will be the last before the baby comes but those dreaded chores just keep rolling around.

Got new presidency and a complete turn-over of teachers oriented to primary before the baby- hooray!

Turned 28 and ate a delicious cherry coke cake made by Geoff and enjoyed speaking with family and friends.

Geoff- had a review at work and was scored a 1 out of scale 1-5 (one being best), he is considered high-potential and was able to meet with upper level management visiting from global offices in NYC where he told the guy he was ready to move on from the Latin America region as hes been disappointed in the lack of investment they have put in training him- the guy contacted geoff’s boss’ boss and told him to approve a training at the top of geoff’s wish list (supposed to have been in jan) he has scheduled the trip for march 5 and is very excited!

ps th snowman pics are from an fhe we did about eternal families