Eight Months Old

 Zara is eight months old now and busy all the time. She loves to army crawl everywhere and is getting to be pretty adventurous, crawling from room to room all on her own. For Halloween she was a little owl.  She loves books and will roll around reading them to herself and flipping the book around looking at all the pages. We are still waiting for her to get some teeth, hopefully she gets some soon! In the picture she is holding one of her favorite things, a highlighter, she likes to watch it roll around on the floor and chase it. She has also figured out how to swing doors open and closed (if they are already open) and she likes to pull on drawer pulls. She is working on learning how to pull herself up on things. Zara is still a pretty happy camper and loves to smile at everyone!

And now a word from Zara herself....       

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Seven Months Old

This cutie pie is seven months old now and keeps us on our toes more and more each day. Zara's an expert scooter, scooting across the floor on her tummy to get anything she wants. She can also stand and hold onto stuff like the sofa or her saucer, one of her favorite things is to stand up on the couch with her tummy against the cushions and look over the back of the couch. We think(hope) she might get a tooth soon, she's chewing on everything and sleeping is a little harder for her lately. She is so much fun to have around and laughs at us when we are silly especially Dusty. Bath time is so fun, she rolls and slides around on her belly to reach all her rubber duckies that swim away. The other day while I was in the kitchen she crawled over by me and was trying to scrape some of the sunlight off the floor with her fingers. It was pretty cute. It's starting to get chilly here so we finally broke out her cute little bear coat that is HUGE and so fluffy. It has little bear ears on the hood and little bear pockets. Maybe I will post a picture of it here soon. Happy seven month birthday Zara! Pretty soon you will be 1 year old!

Yay!

South Caroline: Savannah, Charleston, The End.

We took a couple day trips to Savannah and Charleston. Savannah was gorgeous, one of the fun things about South Carolina in general was that there was spanish moss dripping from every tree. Savannah was cool because every few blocks they had a park with a statue or a fountain and plaques talking about war history. There was just so much history everywhere.

Yummy, yummy sandwiches 

They built these house a little close together...

Zara with the St. Patty's Day Committee sign, maybe one day she will be president ;) 

One of the many beautiful parks downtown

We walked through this really old cemetery and some of the tombstones were attached to this wall, we aren't sure why.  Most of the tombstones said what church the person attended and how old they were to the day when they died. 

Savannah had an amazing cathedral, the stain glass was so intricate and beautiful. They were refurbishing the exterior so there was scaffolding everywhere outside but the inside was very peaceful.

We took a detour to go see a lighthouse and drove past this little jem....wow. 

We also stopped by an interesting place called Wormsloe. We pulled up and there was this grand looking entrance and then we drove down an incredible drive lined with 400 live oak trees but the actual home is in ruins so there wasn't much to see. The driveway was over a mile long and pretty amazing. The land was settled in 1733 by a man from England that was one of the original settlers of Savannah. He planted all the trees along the drive and built a house for his family. He was one of the only settlers that lasted. You can see all the mortar and seashells that he used to make the foundation for his house which was pretty neat. There was a little house nearby so you could see what it was like to live back then with a little room for cooking and then the sleeping quarters above in a loft. 

The homestead backed up to this swamp area.

We stopped by a country store on our drive back to Edisto. It was so cool, they had tons of ciders and homemade jams and jellies. Yummy!

 On our way home we stopped by Charleston. We didn't have that much time but it was fun to walk around a check things out a little bit. We decided we could definitely make an entire trip just out of the Charleston!

Dusty loves bridges and they had a pretty cool one. It was so windy!

We also got to stop by my cousin Alicia's house for a night to see her family. We had so much fun catching up, meeting her cute little kiddos, and eating delicious soup and bread.  Zara and Charlotte hung out a little bit :) I think they are about 3 or 4 months apart but are pretty close in size.

Of course when we drove through Atlanta we had to stop by Ikea. 

That wraps up our South Carolina adventure!

South Carolina: Riding Bikes

We rented bikes for a day while we were in Edisto and we were so glad we did. It was such an easy and fast way to get around the island, we were a little sore the next day though! We even got a little seat for Zara and she seemed to like it. 

Getting all ready to go. 

We saw these crazy berries and thought they were pretty neat

South Carolina: Visiting the Serpentarium

While we were in Edisto we visited their Serpentarium full of all sorts of Alligators, Turtles and Snakes. We made it just in time to see the Alligator show. A young man with an awesome local accent stood above the alligators and fed them huge pieces of chicken while he told us all sorts of awesome Alligator tidbits.  Zara and I loved the Turtles and Dusty loved watching the snakes. There was even a snake show! If you're ever in Edisto check out this random place, it was a lot of fun. 

Crazy turtle with a huge tail!

Zara really wanted to pet the Turtles!

The only Alligator we let Zara touch :)

These little guys were super fast!

She was so tired by the time we were done seeing everything, so sweet.