Help saving some values

I get an error everytime I try to save 09 in my EEPROM.. dont know why.. maybe the chip is corrupt..

anyway, if I cut it in pieces, like two numbers in each eeprom address like this:

EEPROM.write(0, 1);
EEPROM.write(1, 00);
EEPROM.write(2, 00);

how do I put them together again when reading so I get "10000"?