growing

scary meshface

hayay

the panicked crying started right after this picture

daddy makes me laugh

chubster

let my people gooooooooooooooo....

zoey is now happily cruising around the living room, or wherever, like a drunken monkey. she plays with everything, then nothing. she wants everything we have, like the laptop, which she smacks with fat flat hand and gaping open mouth proclaiming, "hah, hah, hah!"

the other day she was doing that looking at me, so i did it back, and we got progressively louder at each other, and i knew it was wrong, but it was so much fun. i just wanted to see if i could get her to yell, i mean communicate, with me. she did, it was cool. i won't do it again though because it's already hard taking her into the library. the older folks don't think the screetching munch is as cute as i do.

she sits and looks at her board books, with her chubby double chin, so cute. what else is cute, and will become aggravating in later year perhaps, is that she knows when she has something shouldn't, like the tv remote, and when she sees me or daddy coming, she turns tail and crawls (still on two hands, a knee, and a foot, like a crab) SO fast away with her loot. it's hilarious.

her top left middle tooth is almost through, i can see it, and now know it's been the culprit of the month long runny nose, and more night wakings...sleeping is going...better and worse, and better...but i'm feeling rather positive about it right now. ask me right after trying every possible way my currently feeble brain can think of to put zo to bed, and i might tell you, through tears of an adult temper tantrum, that she WILL NEVER EVER EVER EVER SLEEP AGAIN!!! and i will partially believe it.

but i digress.

so, she's almost 11 months, i can't believe it, and i think of how big she is every time i pick her up, or i guess look at her too. the back of her head still fits nicely in my palm when i hold her asleep on my shoulder though, and that's comforting.