January 2019

New Year's puzzle

January 5th was Cora's baptism!!! It was fun to have company and for people to be here to support Cora. Grandma and Grandpa Rowley came from Vegas as well as Deni and her boys. Darin and Nicolle came from up north and Sasha and Bryan came with their kids. (They also came for Christmas and New Year's. It's been fun to spend more time with them now that they are close.)


During Cora's confirmation she was blessed to continue her gift of the "gift of tongues." She truly is so good at picking up things in Chinese and I know she will be able to bless others someday due to this gift. She already talks about wanting to go on a mission in China. We feel very fortunate that her elementary school started the Chinese Dual Immersion Program when she was in 1st grade so she could start. The timing was wonderful for us!

Other random things in January:

• Robert started folding his arms for prayers. He also started saying "Hi" to people at the store.
• We didn't avoid illness this month! Molly had a short stomach bug, Cleod and Robert had a barky cough and Robert had a cold. Compared to the rest of the winter, we did pretty well staying well.
• Robert started going to nursery, with Mom's help.
• MLK day with the Groves. It's been fun to have them over several times lately since they are so close for the winter.
• Molly is doing so well with school! Since she is back to half-day kindergarten she hasn't been sad or scared about going to school and hasn't complained about school at all actually! That's a big change from the last couple of months when she would cry unless I walked her in or she would tell me about how she had no friends or something.
• Cora did her first science project but threw up the morning of the Science Fair. She ended up not being sick up stayed home anyway, poor thing.

Dad napping with sick Molly

Robert (brown sweater) in nursery

Tamina's 3rd birthday!

Molly is just starting to write more...and apparently she loves Harry Potter.

Note from Molly