the end of April

Well, Jen still has the "Garage Sale Bug" so we went to a few more this Saturday morning. Grammy is away this weekend, so Jen was bummed about missing out on the Friday ones. We also went to a Library Book Sale in Mount Joy and gota nice stack of books for $9. I think I am going to have to buy another black book case for her room soon, since the one in there is already packed with about 1/2 books and 1/2 stuffed animals!

We went to a belated Easter Egg hunt at Becky's mom house on Friday evening. Zoe enjoyed watching all the little kids running around and she will be able to participate next year. It was very nice that they invited us and even had a nice horsie outfit that she had bought for Zoe. Plus we left with a goodie bag full of baby food, juices and crackers, so all in all it was very nice.

Zoe hit 14 weeks this past Thursday and we can't believe how big she is getting. She is getting even more vocal and animated with each passing week.

Ok, here are this week's pictures. Jen and I are going to take turns posting each weekend, so I'll see ya back here in 2 weeks.

K.

A great big smile





Getting some "Belly Time"





Out for a walk across the road on the track




Close up of Zoe in the Baby Bjorn that we just love. She loves to check things out, so it works just great for her.






Just hangin' out, talkin' to her Zebra that Pap and Grandma got for her!

Garage Sale

Hi everyone! I decided to post a little about this week. Well, why should Kevin have
all the fun? This week Zoe has been such a happy little baby. I set up her high chair and she loves it. I can wheel her around to wherever I am in the house and she can watch. She really enjoys being upright. She is also vocalizing more and smiling a lot.
The only time she fusses is when she is wet, tired or hungry and those problems are easily remedied.
Today we went to a few garage sales with her Grammy Traylor and bought 26 books for $7!
You can't beat that. I think we are hooked on this garage sale thing.
I am posting one of my favorite pictures of us.
Later, Jen

the 5 day easter break

This has been a great 5 day weekend. The weather has been nice and we did a lot of fun things together as a family. Plus anytime I get 5 days off in a row, that is a good thing. The school year is winding down with only about 35 school days to go, so this long weekend was a nice preview of summer and all the time we can spend together.

On Thursday, we went to Lititz to walk around all the cool shops. Zoe likes to be in the Baby Bjorn and face forward so that she gets to check everything out. She especially liked an art gallery that we went in that had lots of brightly colored paintings.

On Saturday, we went to Peddler's Village with Aunt Karen and we had a nice day there as well. It was Karen's first time there and she really liked it. Again, Zoe liked checking everything out from the Baby Bjorn.

Today is Easter and we are going to Mom Mom's house for dinner and to hang out in the afternoon. That means the 5 day weekend is drawing to a close, but damn it was a good one.

K.

A happy face in her new cradle swing




Another happy face




My new favorite picture of Mom and Zoe





Zoe and Dad in the nursery

$%#@ computer!

Blogger crashed while I was adding photos and I lost the 3 paragraphs I was about to post. I am not doing that again. The short version: Yes, I know we missed last week, we were busy. Zoe has had a cold the last few days and is very congested - she caught this cold from me, so I feel bad. She took her first nap in her crib. She loves her changing table and crib mobiles that we set up for her. She also enjoys that perpetual motion art thingie that I got for her at the Whitaker center this week. I will try not to miss another week.

Please don't crash, please don't crash, please don't crash...

K.

Zoe & Aunt Lish





Zoe & Aunt Brynne





Little baby all grows up





The trance of the mobile





Surprisingly, the first photo of all 3 of us together

2 months + 1 week + 3 days

The big news for this week is that we went to Dr. King's on Tuesday for Zoe's 2 month check-up and (ouch!) 2 month shots. She did really well during the visit and though she cried for the shots; it did not last long. Dr. King said she is doing great and she weighed in at 11 lbs. 6 oz. We were amazed because we were just at the doctor's office the previous Monday to check on her diaper rash. She weighed 10 lbs 3 oz then, so she gained 1 1/4 lb in only a week!

She is making more interesting sounds now and we can see her making new facial expressions as she continues to check out her world!

Have a good week,
K.

This is a happy face.






As opposed to her serious face.





Hmmm, what Zoe might look like with long hair?






Now, that is one hip baby.

almost Spring...

Tomorrow marks the beginning of Spring, though the weather is still cold here. We stopped at Rita's this afternoon and had a treat, so that made it feel even closer to Spring for us. We had a nice weekend and even managed a milestone event. Mom and Dad went to see V FOR VENDETTA while Gram and Aunt Karen babysat on Friday evening. It was the first time we we both out of the house without her. The movie was excellent and mom enjoyed it without suffering any "I miss my baby" freakouts! The weekend nights were a little rougher, since little Zoe wants to eat every hour ( or as mom says - non-stop) and wants to be up at night. She cries, but it is not wailing cries, more like "please interact with me" cries because as soon as Mom and dad start talking to each other, she will quiet down!

Zoe turned 8 weeks this past Thursday and a 2 month calendar birthday today, which means that Zoe is due for some vaccination shots on Tueday, so we are not really looking forward to that, but these things must be done.

The other big news since my last post on my birthday was that we had Zoe's "Coming out" party on Mom's birtday; Sunday 03/12. Many people showed up that had not yet met her and brought her some nice gifts. We would like to personally thank everyone who came to the party. It was a nice time for everyone. The only downside was that it was hard to visit equally with everyone and to take as many pictures as we would have liked. Though I did get a nice one of my mom and dad with her, we should have taken more.

Onto some pictures. Have a good week everyone.

K.

Dad and Zoe across the street checking out the horses.




The Zebra Queen





A smile?





Very intent!





Gram and Pap in the nursery 03/12/06

39 years and 7 weeks

I am off today and Friday for my birthday, so a nice 4 day weekend for us all to enjoy together. We are going to have lunch at El Serrano's later this afternoon and Park City to buy my bday gift, a new 360 game.

Last weekend on Sunday (after I posted) we travelled to Barra and Zoe got to meet her great grandparents finally. It was supposed to happen for weeks, but we just had too many weekends where at least one of us felt sick, so it was nice that it finally happened. We took some nice pictures and even some dvd. I am almost done with the first Zoe dvd; relase date to follow.

This Sunday is Zoe's "Coming Out Party" from 12-5pm, so we hope to see a lot of people there, where I will finally get to corner some people and ask WHY THEY NEVER LEAVE ANY COMMENTS ON THE BLOG! C'mon people, it won't kill you to leave a comment. I check it every day and I am always disappointed that members are not leaving comments, especially the people that don't get to see her every week. Ok, I am stepping down off the soapbox.

On a final nore, I weighed myself last week, then hopped back on the scale with Zoe (around 6 weeks for her) and got a difference of 11 pounds. She is not quite so dinky anymore.

K.

Ok, onto the main attraction...

Zoe and her Zebra

A great picture of Mom and Zoe on the deck

Dad holding Zoe at Barra

Bright eyes at Barra

Zoe and her Great Grandmother

6 weeks and a day

A Friday night post - something I haven't done before. We got used to the new camera and so far are very happy with the higher quality pictures that it can produce.

Zoe is doing great and getting bigger everyday. In fact, just this morning I got on the scale and weighed myself, then held her in my arms and weighed us both and came up with 11 lbs. for Zoe; we even tried it twice. Jen and I were surprised at that!

Things are going really well. She wakes up at night to feed, but generally is not overly fussy, though she does have her crying fits from time to time. Mom bares the brunt of this, since she wakes up all night as dad sleeps, but Dad IS getting up at 5:15am to feed the horses during the week and changes his share of diapers!

Can't think of much more to say and it's almost time to watch a movie, so enjoy some new pictures.

K.

The Doodle and Zoe

No big news this week with the exception that our digital camera died and we had to order a new one on-line pronto. The new one takes a higher resolution picture, is smaller, and has more features than the last one. Thing is we didn't have a camera for about 5 days, so I don't have as many pictures for this week. I have a bunch of pictures of family members (Traylors and MacNeills) holding her, but I like to only post pictures of her by herself here or with mom and dad. We will start playing with the new camera more this week and will have a bunch of new pictures next week.

For now, I though the Doodle needed to have some more of his pictures on here, since the Zazu has been on here a bunch.

Enjoy and we will see you back here next week.

K.

Zoe turns one........month old.

Zoe is in fact one month old this past Thursday. Now we can move to celebrating her monthly birthdays on the 19th of each month instead of trying to remember exactly how many Thursdays it has been since her birth.

We took her to the doctor's office for her one month check up this past Wed and she nows weighs 8 lbs. 1/2 oz. so we were very happy that she had gained some weight. She was very good for Dr. King and didn't cry or anything. She passed all her tests and Dr. King said she was in great shape, so that made Mom and Dad happy.

We had a nice visit from Uncle Andrew, Pop-Pop, and Ruth on Valentine's Day. They brought a nice outfit for Zoe and pizza for Mom and Dad.

Now enjoy some new pictures.

K. & J.

One of Jen's favorite pictures of Zoe.

Zazu likes to know where Zoe is at all times!

Apparently she loves her mommy.

This is the one we call "Number One baby" and one of Dad's favorites pictures thus far.

just one more...

Ok, snowbound on a Sunday, so I figured I could post one more time this weekend to get a few more (more recent) pictures up on the blog. I also don't want to get behind in photos so that I am always posting pictures that are weeks old. I want to get to the point where I am posting pictures that were taken during the week on the weekends.

It was a lazy Sunday and Jen is getting a bit of a cold with a sore throat, but Zoe is doing well. We have a doctor's appointment for her this coming Wednesday, one full day before she turns 4 weeks or one month old. Time really does fly by. Have a good week and I will see you back here next weekend with the next round of pictures.

And for all you lurkers ( looking at pictures, but not signing up with blogger) get with the program so you can leave comments!

dutch baby

Saturday afternoon and we are now hanging out inside as the first "blizzard" of 2006 falls down upon us. I actually remembered to post before another week went by! Now I just have to remember to bust out the dvd camcorder and capture some more video of Zoe. Something I only did when she first got home. I want to get in the habit of blogging and taking video of her every weekend. I want to shoot just 5 minutes or so of video a week to watch her progress. Our friend Becky just showed us one of her infamous scrapbooks this afternoon of her daughter sitting in a Boppy in the same position from 1 month to 15 months I think. It was really cool to see the progression, so J and I are going to try to do that on the 19th of each nonth.

Ok, dutch baby pictures now. Our good friend Solange ( Hi S - thanks for the crazy licorice!) who lives in Holland sent us a great care package for us and the baby. We try to send these care packages back and forth a few times a year. It's fun to look for cool stuff for her while we are out shopping over the course of the year. Anyhoo, she sent some cool clothes for Zoe that have bunnies and say "funny bunny" on them including the cute Jester hat.

So here are all of these pictures. I love the one of mom and Zoe.

we are back...

Ok, so it was a bit of a long week, so it's been over a week since I have posted. I am going to try to get in the habit of posting on the weekend, but this one just flew by.

It was a nice weekend; our first real weekend since I have gone back to school this week. We had some milestones. We went to the grocery store together on Saturday and on Sunday we went to J's mom house (Mom-mom and Poppa John's) so those were 2 big excursions for us that went well. Later we came back to our house and watched the Super Bowl with Grammy and Aunt Karen.

Other things this week were that we went to the doctor's on Monday 01/30/06 and Zoe had gained 3.5 ounces in 5 days. It didn't seem like much to me, but the doctor was happy.

Ok, enough they all said, get to the pictures.

ok, you got it.

ok, typing one handed as i hold Zoe now, so no captions for the pictures today!