Corral that gal!

Zoey is now a full-fledged crawler. It's not the most graceful crawl, but it sure gets her where she thinks she wants to go. And then back to where she really wanted to be. And then over to the other spot. And on. And on. The energizer bunny has nothing on this girl.

Given our daughter's new found locomotive ken, we did what any reasonable parents would do and bought a kiddie cage gated play area. Zoey loves it. She especially loves using the bars to pull herself up into a standing position. She is very strong, and doesn't mind plopping on her backside a few dozen times in her pursuit of bipedal brilliance.

All of this motor activity means sleep, once again, as it's always been with this little sweet pea of ours, is in extraordinarily short supply. El and I have been functioning on four or five hours a night for the last week or so. Not fun. Zoey still starts each day smiling and giggling and rolling and happy. Mom and dad? Not so much. Ugh. I'm probably the only parent in existence yearning for her to become a teenager just so she'll start sleeping 15 hours a day. Oh well. She's an awesome little girl in every other regard, so we'll just have to figure out a way to get her to close her peepers for more than an hour at a time.

Enjoy the pictures and these first days of summer.