2009!!

Can't believe it's 2009 already! What a fun year 2008 was. We had some friends in town from Phoenix (the city) who had a New Year's party. It was great the see them. Phoenix (the boy) staued up until 12:30! It was a super late night for him. Cory and I did make some resolutions and blogging more is not one them. Sorry! Maybe if I was more funny/interesting.... Cory and I did resolve to be more "green" this year, though. We are going to do better about recycling, we sent out "e thank-you" cards after Christmas, we're doing cloth wipes (in addition to cloth diapers), Cory rides the bus to work (which he actually did most of last year, too), we got a bunch of those flourescent energy saver light bulbs, and as soon as it's warm enough, we're going to walk to church. If you have any other great "green" ideas, let us know!

Phoenix is 6 months old now! He had 2 bottom teeth and is starting to get his top two. He had 6 month vaccinations yesterday and I think his legs are really sore. He keeps crying and won't try to stand up (which is very unusual). He also has his first fever. Sad story. But he is doing all kinds of fun tricks now. He sits up really well by himself. We put a box under a sheet and had him sit on it for these photos.

Looking up at dad

Kind of smiling, but kind of not

With the light shining through his ears...so funny :-)

Phoenix loves attention...Cory's parents were over the other day checking out our awesome grafitti pics (pictures to come later) and we were showing them how he can rock forward from a sitting position onto his hands and knees, how he loves playing with his push walker, and how he can pull himself up on his crib rails. Before then he had just pulled himself up from sitting to his knees, but when we put him in his crib to show them, he pulled himself right up to standing while looking around at everyone and smiling his big cheesy smile.