fall

against every recommendation of my college photo teacher, here's a baby in sunglasses

so we all were sick for a week or so and when we finally ventured out of the house, fall was officially here, with colorful trees and chillier weather. zoey has exhausted herself and me with a pink eye scare at the end of her cold last week. she stopped eating easily, in other words, has been too distracted, too stuffy, or too anything to nurse. i use various techniques to get her to eat and thank God when she finally starts to. i always thought, if she doesn't eat as usual, she'll eat when she gets hungry, and it's not a problem because she's gaining weight right on schedule and everything else checks out. wrong! if she doesn't eat, she's super unhappy, nothing makes her feel good and she doesn't get enough sleep, which fuels the unhappy fire. yuck. so i cover her head with a blanket so she'll eat, i sit in a dark room with no sounds, and sometimes i even use the "laughing" bear that aunty chris gave us. it's a stuffed animal that has a recording of a mixture of demonic slide whistles with children laughing. we love that bear! it works wonders. it pauses the freak out, closed eye, wailing so that she can latch on. eric tried to imitate it the other day, but even he can't be that cool!

she's found her feet, very cute. she puts everything in her mouth, especially her hands. she maniacally grabs our finger as our hand passes her face and shoves them in her mouth to chew on. maybe she's teething, who knows. she tastes things with her tongue, which is painfully adorable. sometimes it's because she's hungry, sometimes not. she's got passion though, that's for sure.