merrily

nice bow

with uncle lou

with papa

gimme

with avo

poof

avo andre (eric's grandpa) or ozzie osborne?
wearing a "hannah montana" wig

g'ma and me

zoey between many meltdowns and avo with his normal hair

she finally fell asleep - right after midnight

sometimes i get so tired taking care of the munch. she doesn't like to sleep much more than 3 hours at a time anymore, which is still better than some babies i know, but still, i want more sleep! a lot of times i wish eric had the milk machines...lately zoey is not happy with bottles. she's regressing people! but she's awesome still. the second tooth is still coming in and hurting her, keeping her up until 10pm after only taking two half hour naps since 6am that morning. meanwhile she's cute, talking a lot "dadadadadadadadadada" and laughing, and fake laughing. i somewhat dread the day she starts crawling because i know she will not be satisfied by being penned in the living room, even though it IS bigger than a playpen. i'm really looking forward to summer (as always) because she loves the water already and we'll be at the beach as much as possible! free fun!

holiday

what. i'm busy.


sweet grinches



isaiah wants to run around carrying zoey. she doesn't object.

romeo and zoey

big feet

zoey and deb plan an attack

the weekend before christmas, we went to nh. it was lovely, but a stupid decision in retrospect. i wanted to have christmas with pop and deb before actual christmas, because the christmasy feelings are as christmasy after christmas...zoey took about 1.5 naps in two days. still, she loved unwrapping. she also loved her grinch, who's heart grew three sizes that day. it was fun nevertheless. more to come...

ps

things really sneak up on me. i was just looking over the pictures i posted and really realized, my baby can sit up! by herself! how did that happen? it happened in like three days...and so i'm sure it has gone with every mother before me...

Where was i

thanks makili! i love to eat wrapping paper.

nothing cuter

i'm sitting now

still smiley

nothing like a cloth diaper butt

like my giant fruit loop?

i'm reading a letter from my buddy maddy

holy crap!

finally, some snow, lots of snow

sorry, it's been a while. lots has been happening. mostly christmas stuff. i'm enjoying crafting in the few minutes i get in between zoey duty. i still enjoy waking up to see her every morning, although it takes me a while and i have to put her in her excersaucer while i eat cereal. i try to talk happy and chipper in baby friendly language at 8am, but it just comes out scratchy and forced. so, we enjoy some silence. i love her so much i can't stand it.

so where was i...zoey has recently had her first "accident" with another child. at a la leche meeting she was lying on the floor being changed, when one of the many sweet toddlers running around with various push toys careened toward her head. i think he bumped her because it was read afterwards, but she didn't care at all. she made a funny face when the toy it her, like "what the hell is that!?" she's a trooper. she's learned to sit on her own. she's fallen forward once and wacked her face. she cried a lot, but it wasn't scraped or anything. we keep the boppy around her back when we're not right next to her so that she doesn't get a concussion by flailing backwards. the other day she fell slowly backwards, and ended up sprawled across the pillow looking upside down at the television. bad baby! i don't watch it much, but when i do, she finds a way to see it. she plays more on her own now, so i can get certain things done. by more, i mean longer than 3 minutes, which is nice. her other tooth is still working on coming in. today was a very drooly day.

meanwhile, i try to sell extra chairs and such we bought her and don't need anymore, but no place wants them around here! i'm trying to make a dollar wherever i can. go figure, living rent free and still squeezing by...

she loves to eat velcro now. she looks like she's taste testing it: holds the toy with her left hand, inserts the strap with velcro on it (to attach to her mobile thingy) into her mouth with her right hand, motions like she's tasting wine, takes it out of her mouth and looks at it, then begins the cycle again. funny to me. she also laughs without being prompted which is a really cool gift for us!

in other news, we're looking forward to christmas with family who haven't seen her in a while, and wondering what avo benevides has up her sleeve for her sweet great granddaughter, since she's literally been mentioning, "6 months old at christmas, i buy a nice gift for her!" since the week she was born.

merry merry

florida - the lost files

dessert

big flip flops

sheik isaac

cousin jocelyn

first backpack trip
hillsborough state park, fl

zoey has to thoroughly inspect her water before drinking it

love alicia

eucher

happy pontoon ride

Honeymoon Island FL, 11-20-07

almost christmas

cloth diapers rock!

eh?

the ambiance was much better without a flash, but i wanted to record a moment, not a blur

teething lip sucker

note: in the picture of zoey naked at the beach, in the florida part 2 post, she actually isn't sunburned. she has such super sensitive skin that she was red just from us lifting her up and moving her to the towel...and perhaps the funny light from the umbrella.