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Since Ryan moved in, Leilani visits nearly every weekend, and Zoe has been thrilled. For the most part, they get along great, and Zoe loves having a “big sister” to follow around and play games with. She gets super excited on Saturday mornings, and has a hard time waiting for Leilani to wake up. Usually, [...]
Over the holidays, Zoe spent a lot of time with her cousins. Since she’s an only child and the only girl in the group, it’s pretty interesting to watch how differently she reacts to situations. In general, she’s delighted to see the boys’ high energy and rough-housing, and she likes to join in. Unfortunately, she [...]
“Her name is Pot-Lock Robot. She’s an acro-bat. She’s only four months old! You see her? She’s being so crazy! She’s got an owie.” – Zoe, telling me about her baby doll
Annie: Okay, I’m going to count to five, and then we’re going to be all done with this. Zoe: Mommy, stop talking! I’m going to count to six. Annie: And then we’ll be done? Zoe: No, I’m just counting to six.
I was taking photos of Zoe in the backyard, and when she noticed, she ran over to the chair and struck this little pose. She held it long enough for me to snap a single shot, and then ran over, demanding to see the photo. Her reaction was “I so pretty!”
This is old news by now, because I’m a lazy parent-blogger, but Zoe has (long-since) given up her crib and moved into a toddler bed. We bought her a very nice bed for her second birthday, and she loves sleeping in it. Most nights, bedtime involves one parent (usually Annie) handling bath, teeth, and reading books, [...]
These are the details that she’ll kill me for sharing when she grows up, but I don’t want to forget them, so apologies to future Zoe (and future me!) Zoe is totally potty-trained now, and it was suspiciously easy. To the point where I’m half convinced that we’ll wake up one morning to discover it was [...]
Since Zoe was very little, it’s been my job to clip her nails. The funny thing is, you would expect a small child to resist this, but Zoe has always been fascinated with the whole process. She sits calmly in my lap, and holds out her hands and feet. Once she got big enough, we [...]
The very first thing anyone ever said about our daughter was that “she’s got a mind of her own!” That was the ultrasound technician, back when Zoe was still in the womb, but it’s just as true today. No matter what we’re doing, she’ll find a way to put her own spin on it. Here [...]
Zoe was a little young for the beach last year, but we’ve managed to take her a few times this year, and she’s always very excited. She loves playing in the sand and even (with a bit of coaxing) splashing in the creek — though she refuses to touch the actual ocean, and when it [...]
If we take Zoe to the park for a half-hour, she will spend 20 minutes of that time watching what all the other kids are doing. It’s not that she’s shy, really. She loves other kids, and will happily play with them — once she’s watched them for a bit. This particular photo was taken after [...]
Don’t worry about the fact that you can’t see anything in the video – it was taken in Zoe’s room with the lights out, while Annie tried to put Zoe to bed one night. For several nights in a row, I had been laughing while listening to Annie try to put Zoe to bed. She would [...]
Dear Zoe, You are two years old, and it is absolutely crazy how much you have changed and grown lately. You’ve recently started going to Co-Op daycare, started jumping and doing somersaults, become fascinated with reading and writing, and singing and talking. You are always busy and high energy, and everyone thinks you’re adorable.
I’m working on Zoe’s second birthday post, but in the meantime, let me share this classic Zoe video with you. I recently uploaded a slew of videos to Flickr as part of my new year’s resolution, and I think this one is my new favorite. She’s three months old, and I’m trying to get a [...]
I just realized I haven’t been posting about Zoe much lately. I’ll try to make up for that with a few photo posts, but let me kick-start the process by sharing a few things:
It wasn’t too long ago that Zoe used to be completely uninterested in food. While her cousins and friends would gleefully eat anything and everything on their parents’ plates, Zoe would pick uninterestedly at her food and then tell us that she was “all done.” We weren’t really worried about it, because we knew that every [...]
For the fourth of July, we got Zoe dressed in her adorable little patriotic outfit and headed to the family cabin at the beach. Every year, people get their fireworks and set the off on the beach, and if you take a lawn chair down, you get a pretty good display. From the beach by [...]
Zoe started walking a few weeks ago. She’d been building up to it for quite awhile, and it’s suprising how quickly it’s become her primary method of getting around. For the first week or so, walking was a novelty — a game she would play with us, or something to make people clap — but [...]
The other day, Annie and I noticed that Zoe has just enough hair to put it into little tiny pigtails. As you can see, I was greatly amused by the results.
Zoe has been sick off and on for about two weeks now. It started with an ear infection, which got bad enough that her doctor put her on antibiotics. Then she got a bit of a cold, threw up a couple of times, and then diarrhea for about a week. Plus she’s been teething. Yesterday, I [...]
