Zach is 12!

Today is Zach's 12th birthday. Wow how time flies. Zach is such an amazing kid. Today is his special day. Zach really was in no hurry to come into this world. Finally at 42 weeks (2 weeks late) Zach decided that he would make his entrance. It was a cold, snowy day in Vermont. After weeks of walks, castro oil, black cohosh, and many other wild old wives tales he came. He came fast and hard. We had a 30 minute drive to the Dartmouth Hospital in Lebenon, New Hampshire. He was huge. Weighing in a 8lbs 5 oz. Zach has several nick names that the family has given him over the years: Zachy, Zip, Zacharini, Powder & Wild are a few.
Zach know what he wants. For the first 2 years of his life he cried, but it was worth it for he makes us laugh everyday now.

Zach has always been a great son. We love him so much. Zach always has worked hard at being a good person & student.


ZACH IS:


kind, sensitive, smart, trustworthy, fun, an honor student, caring, and a great friend.


We love you so much Zach! Happy Happy Birthday! Zach on his 1st day of kindergarten!

I have tons of photos of Zach walking with Clara. Always helping her a long the way.

Zach will accomplish amazing things! I am sure of it!

Being Thankful

I have a friend who writes down several things she is thankful for each week. Well, although I doubt that I will continue each week with a thankful list I have 3 things that I am thankful for today. 

After not having my car all week because it was in the shop (running up a huge bill $$$$) the first thing I am thankful for is my car. Every day I jump in-out, in-out. Loading it with kids, grocery's and the occasional run to Target. I am thankful for my car.

With that said, today I picked up the car from the shop. It had pretty new tires on it, a state inspection and a clean bill of health. I though what a better way to show this car how much I missed it than by taking it to get detailed. So I drove to the nearby car wash. After about 1 hour and 45 min, the car looked awesome. When I went to start the car I got nothing. Dead. I tried again and again, but there was nothing. The battery had died.

On to the second thing that I am thankful for this week my cel phone. I was now 20 min. late to pick up Clara from school. After making several calls to friends, Jason, Joe's Auto Shop and to the preschool we finally got the car started. As I showed up 40 min late to pick up Clara (she was the only one there, alone with the director of the school) I felt so thankful for modern technology. Giving me the ability to communicate with her school so that they did not think I had fallen off the face of the earth.

I guess my #3 would be fast food. Because that was the only thing that would get Clara to not be sad for "forgetting" to pick her up from school. A few quotes from Clara between french fries were:

 "I saw all the Mom's come pick up the kids"

 "I don't like to be last"

 "It makes me feel sad that you forgotted about me" 

Super hero

As Parents we seem to do a lot of teaching, discipline & more discipline. We often do not get to see our kids being good examples or doing well outside our families as much as we would like. Today we were very pleasantly surprised when we received this email from Dylan's 9th grade English teacher. Dylan has done some amazing creative writing in the past but Jason and I, like his teacher, thought this was incredible. Below is the email from his teacher and then Dylan's paragraph. This was a writing prompt. The teacher gave a subject and the class had a few minutes to write a paragraph about the prompt. After they were finished the teacher collected them. After he read them he took Dylan aside and told him how awesome it was and that he had never read something so insightful. He asked if Dylan would mind him reading it aloud to the class. So he did.
We cannot give our kids enough praise when they do something great(and get recognized for it by their teacher).


Dear Mr. and Mrs. Slatter,

Dlyan wrote one of the finest things today that I've ever read in a writer's sketchbook. It was insightful, showed a lot of reflection, and was put in a very interesting way. He made a very ordinary assignment quite extraordinary.

I just wanted to tell you also how well Dylan works in class, how respectful he always is, and how cheerful he always seems to be. It has been great having him this year.

Peter Stephens

Super hero
My super hero doesn’t have any super powers. This super hero is a hero because his self confidence level is so high that he knows that he can do anything and anything is possible. He sets his standards so high which makes him a hero. This hero is unknown. This hero is a myth, a legend, no one knows when or if he will ever walk on this earth. Maybe someone has it in them and the hero is caged inside them. Locked away, possibly forever. Trying his hardest to get out but whoever this person is, will not let the hero out, perhaps this person is scared or nervous. Will he ever get out; will he ever be able to get what he has wanted for so long? How much longer will the hero last until he becomes a fragment of someone’s imagination? How long will it take to get his answer? How long, how long?
By: Dylan Slatter

New blog by Email

To all our dear Family! This email is coming from our blog. I am now emailing you every time I post a blog on slatterseven.blogspot.com This way you can keep up on all the Slatter's in Virginia. At the bottom of this email you can click on Slatter Seven. It should take you to our blog. Hope you like getting our up dates. We love and miss you guys! xoxo

Superbowl Sunday

Yes today was Superbowl Sunday! It was sure a Super Sunday for us. Isaac finally lost his top front tooth, and Camilla had a molar that needed to come out. Yeah for lost teeth!
The tooth fairy better have lots of $$$