Day 2- Swap meet and Newport Beach

Zoey in the hotel playing with the toy cell phone Grandma Jo gave her- she loves cell phones


Amy had the great idea to go to the swap meet in orange county. It was a ton of fun!





Zoey was so good the whole trip- I felt bad because she wasn't able to get down and crawl at all the whole week


Daddy bought Zoey some maracas to play with- she loves them! Has played with them every day since he got them for her


Lunch at red robin


Zoey's first time at the beach. She fell asleep right before we got there and had to wake her up. She was quiet and didnt like the sand on her feet





She would lift her feet up- she didn't like the cold water on her toes








So tired!





Amy , syd and Boston


Gregg and Jeds grandma with Zoey


Of course I had to go to H&M - I managed to go to 2 different ones on this trip. Mainly I was looking for a hat for Zoey so she wouldn't get sunburned


Hat from H&M

California day 1

This last week we went to California with Jeds family. We had a blast -
Day 1- DRIVING





Zoey was an angel for the whole drive. She cried for maybe 10 minutes the whole day. She watched a lot of movies


Walking from Excaliber where we had lunch to the M & M factory. Sydney and Boston hadn't been before so that was a must see


The drive was pretty uneventful other than getting separated from the rest of Jeds family in California and having to go rescue them because they were so lost. We stayed in a hotel right by Disneyland. It wasn't the nicest but the walk to the park was short so it was nice!

9 Month Stats

17 lbs. 12 oz (30 %)

27.6 inches (51 %)

Head in the 86th %

Still has a giant Noggin! It must mean she is smart :)

9 months old and MOBILE!

Zoey is so much fun and I am so grateful to be her mommy. She is learning new things every day and it is so fun to watch her grow.
Things about Zoey at 9 months:
- Started crawling on October 5, she gets into everything now!
- pulls herself up to standing easily now. If she stands up on something hard (like the coffee table) she gets too excited and head bangs the table. She has many battle wounds because of this habit. The coffee table is The enemy and must go!
- her second tooth on the bottom broke through yesterday
- she started dancing to the music on Rio the other day and it is hilarious! She pumps her hips and holds one finger up- she knows she is number one! She also rolled the dice once (think Hitch) and Jed and I busted up laughing
- mostly sleeps through the night now
- still sucks at naps
- started going to the Nanny and seems to love it. Mommy doesnt- i miss my bug! She has fun playing with her cousin Erica though and they will be good friends
-makes a growling/grunting noise- no idea where she learned this
-waves and tries to say bye bye - it sounds pretty close but she says buh buh
-loves to stand on her tippy toes
- moved into the big girl bathtub and loves it! She learned to splash and could sit in the tub for hours if I let her!
- loves her books and loves when I read to her. If I don't turn the page fast enough she pulls my hand to help me turn the page

Some pictures off my iPhone



Baby owl



Baby Elmo



Getting too big for the bumbo



Holds her bottle all on her own- sometimes she holds it with one hand, it is hilarious!



Sleeps like mommy



Playing with Corver and Paul



Watching tv with Erica



She does the creep down the couch and gets to the end and gets mad because she can't walk
Left yet



Mommy and baby



In motion- she's everywhere now!



Riding a bike with Nanny Kayla






A couple of our family pictures- more to come soon



Ready for our 10 mile run in the freezing rain

8 Months

Pictures of Zoey at 8 Months

Her favorite toy- a water bottle!

First tooth! Kind of hard to see but I had to get a picture- it is so cute!

Zoey is growing like a weed! I took her to the Dr. for a follow up visit (more on that later) and she was 16 lbs 3 oz. Just a little munchkin but she feels so big to me! She is so much fun and makes me so happy. I can't help but smile at all the cute things she does all day.

Things about Zoey at 8 months

-still not crawling. I think she could, she just chooses not to
-won't hold her bottle. I know she can, she just chooses not to

-can pull herself up to standing (most of the time)

-as you can tell she does things in her own time and I cannot force her to do anything unless SHE is ready
-her new favorite chew toy is MY HAIR. She always finds it and sucks on it. So gross.. but very hard to stop. She is sneaky and half the time I don't notice she is doing it

-gets the chills. She will be playing and stop and shiver and make a brr sound. it is hilarious to watch!

-has regressed in eating. She got sick and didn't eat solids for a few days and now she is being a pill and won't eat very well. She's getting a little better so hopefully we will be back to 2-3 meals a day soon

-generally sleeps through the night with 1 night feeding. So much better than before

-makes all sort of funny noises and does silly things with her mouth. She sounds like a dinosaur half the time and an owl the other half. She is constantly puffing small breaths of air. It must be entertaining to her- Jed says this is a sainsbury trait

-eats her bracelet whenever I put it on her

-has become my little Indian and does the hand powwow all the time

-We call her buggy, or buggy bug. I don't know why- but I love it

-had a bladder infection :(

She was really sick a couple weeks ago so we took her in to get check out and she ended up with a bladder infection. I feel so bad for my little baby that she was that sick and in so much pain. We didn't get any sleep for 2 nights because she felt so horrible. I think she would go to sleep and then pee and that would wake her up because it was so painful. My Pediatrician said it isn't normal for a little baby her age to get an infection as bad as hers and since we have a family history of bladder problems, she has to go get a bunch of test done at Primary's. I am not looking forward to that and hope that everything will come back normal.

Labor Day Hike

These uploaded in reverse order