Zachary's 1/2 birthday - 4 and 1/2

Zoe has learned to sweep - and sometimes enjoys helping clean up the kitchen with Mama. She also loves Jackson and snuggles him often. We feel lucky that he is such a good sport about it. He is seriously the nicest kitty ever, and even Winston loves him.

Zachary loves to read, in fact these days he has demonstrated that he can indeed read - quite well in fact. He is determined once he gets going and sounds out new words. Here he is reading to himself and sharing the planet book with Zoe. Both kids have taken quite an interest in the solar system, especially the moon and some of the planets. It is exciting to watch them develop this interest.

We decided to celebrate Zachary's 1/2 birthday - can you believe he is 4 and 1/2, we can't! He and Daddy baked cupcakes to celebrate, he even frosted and sprinkled them. We couldn't convince him that he should only eat half a cupcake though, in fact he wanted 2!