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11 months old!

Wow, Zoe is 11 months old now. Almost a year! I can't believe how fast time goes by when you have a baby. Kevin has off from school now for Christmas and we went to the park. Zoe really liked the swing as you can see in the pictures. She also really likes the ducks and geese. There were more at the park then I've ever seen and because it's Winter no one was there feeding them except us.
My biggest news is that I've finally ridden Duncan! Today I rode him for the second time and Kevin put Zoe up on the saddle when I was done. He is such a good boy!
Last weekend we went to West Chester to congratulate Aunt Alicia. She graduated from West Chester U as an education major. She will be an elementary school teacher. YAY ALICIA!
That's about all for now. Come back soon for some Christmas pictures.
~Jen

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Last Sunday we went to Hershey Park's Candy Lane to check out the lights and Zoe had her first carousel ride and train ride. This Friday we went to Dutch Wonderland's Winter Wonderland ( combo tickets!) and rode the train twice and the carousel. Jenine(my Classroom Asst. from Lincoln) brought her kids and we walked around together for a bit. It was a nice time and both places were fun. We plan to add it to our yearly traditions, along with Longwood Gardens.

Zoe has been crawling for a little over 2 weeks. She can pull herself up almost anywhere and can cruise around when she is holding onto something. We think she should be walking by her birthday or even sooner.

Jen and I made our new year's resolution a bit early this year. We are planning to buy a house by the end of 2007. Hopefully a bit sooner! So we are looking forward to Christmas, of course, but we are REALLY looking forward to next Christmas in our own home and Zoe will be old enough to get a bit more from our yearly traditions.

Will post more pictures soon. Happy Holidays everyone!

Kevin, Jen, & Zoe

Thanksgiving & Longwood

Hello everyone!
We had a great Thanksgiving (although I still had to feed the horses that day). We went to Mom-mom's house and ate with the family + Aunt Frances and her family. Zoe now has two bottom teeth and 4 upper teeth. The teeting process is definately not a fun one:)
Zoe is in the beginning phase of cruising. She loves to stand at the coffee table (see pic).


On the last day of vacation we went to Longwood Gardens to see the lights. The weather was very nice, I didn't even have to wear a jacket! The Christmas display was wonderful, we will definately make it a yearly tradition. No pictures could show the beauty of it so I am just posting a few pics of us before it became dark.
~Jen

Trip to DC

Zoe & her Dad at John & Alex's house outside DC.

Zoe in front of a Mary Cassatt painting at the Hirshhorn.

Panda & her cub eating breakfast at the National Zoo.

National zoo entrance. This is Zoe's 3rd zoo trip this year!

Halloween, etc.

Zoe & her Mom at the last day of the PA Rennaissance Faire sitting with the Angel of Death. How cute:)
It was a very windy and cold day and we didn't stay long.

Zoe at her 9 month appointment with Dr. King. She is such a nice Doctor. We really like her!
Zoe weighed 18 lbs. 3 0z. and was 28 inches long.
Lucky for her there were no shots at this visit.

This pictures was taken at Glenn & Emily's house right before we went trick or treating in Millersville.

Another Halloween picture. This one was at Pap's house infront of his highly decorated spooky yard. That is a giant bat behind me and a mummy in the background. Yikes!

Cute picture

I love this picture I took of Zoe & Kevin this weekend so I had to share it. Not much new happening. Zoe is teething so she is quite grumpy some days. I have the Pumpkin Carve on Thursday in Chadds Ford and a pre-carve party the night before. It will be the first time Kevin has Zoe to himself.
Jen

Halloween Approaches

It is getting colder here now and it really feels like Halloween is only a few weeks around the corner. I wanted to post this last big patch of pictures, many of which feature Zoe outside sitting on a blanket in the sun. Those days are now over as autumn really starts to reveal itself with changing colors, falling leaves, and a crisp snap in the air. It is a wonderful time of year. Jen and I can't wait for Halloween, and its decorations, and the Pumpkin Carve that Jen and her mom will do in a few weeks as well. I'll keep Jen and Zoe's Halloween outfits a secret until I post the pictures here afterwards (of course).

Zoe gets bigger and more adventurous with every passing day. She still doesn't have much of an interest in crawling, but she LOVES to stand and we feel that she is just going to bypass crawling and move straight to walking. It is amazing how long she can stand by herself, just holding onto a chair and how she will reach out with one hand. She also tries to pull herself up all the time. It won't be long before she moves into this next stage, the baby gates go up and Jen and I start to chase her around this place!

More to follow,

K.

Dog Kiss

Happy Smile

Cat Lover

Sunshine Baby

Doodle thinks it is his Boppy

Sippy Cup Fun

Sippy Cup Fun the Sequel

Bubble Head

I love this picture of Zoe

The Great "Dog Nose Surprise" Picture

Hershey Park Chocolate World Happy!

We went to Hershey PA to visit Pop-Pop and walked to HersheyPark Chocolate World where Zoe experienced her first "ride" with the newly remodeled Chocolate World ride. We had a fun time and a nice visit and Pop-pop treated us all to lunch and some sweet dark chocolate treats! We haven't seen him in a while, so it was a nice visit and we hope to be back soon!

Great picture of smiles and a pretty leaf that Zoe liked.

Outside Chocolate World.

Inside Chocolate World; 3 generations of MacNeills.

"Cows that sing?" - Weird..........

Vernal Equinox

The first day of autumn and yeah, it's been a while. Going back to school has chewed into my free time and I just haven't gotten around to posting as much. Ehh, what cha gonna do? Anyway...

Zoe turned 8 months this past Tuesday. She keeps getting more and more interesting with each passing day. She says "mamamamamama" and "dadadadadada" and gets on quite a roll when she starts. We think she knows both our cats names now, so that if you say "MeeMee" or "Zazu" she will look around for them. She loved to play with Zazu by holding a cat toy that is a long stick with a string and tassle and she will flip it around for her to chase. She isn't quite crawling yet, but she explores with her upper torso, meaning she moves around a lot with her upper body while sitting still. She loves to stand and we think she might be one of theose kids that sorta skips crawling and goes right to walking.

Until next time, here are some new pictures. I will try to post again soon, but don't hold me to it.

K.

I love this last picture and I saved a big version of it can be my desktop on my computer at school.

behold the beauty of the giraffes

One last summer post before it ends. On Friday we went to the Baltimore to squeeze in one last weekday summer adventure before school starts next week. It was really a lot of fun and Zoe seemed much more interested in watching the animals than she did when we went to the Philly Zoo in late June. It was a bit hot and humid that day, but we had a great time, especially watching the giraffes. Zoe really liked watching them and there was one that seemed to like watching her, in fact, when we moved up a pathway to check out an Okapi, the giraffe seemed to follow us over there. Then we read the sign and saw that one giraffe was named Zoe, so we just KNEW that was the one that was following us! We got a ton of great pictures there; enjoy.


K.

Here we are checking out all the giraffes.

A nice lady took a picture of all 3 of us.

The giraffe wants a closer look at that baby!

Now we are on the other side of the enclosure, but that giraffe is following us.

2 Zoes?

At the petting zoo.

Taking the Zoo Tram back to the car.