Mini-update.

There were supposed to be more photos, really, there were. In fact there are more photos, and no, the dog didn't eat them (we don't have a dog), they are just sitting on out desktop waiting to be uploaded to the grand Tube Network for your viewing pleasure. So we all just have to muddle through with this "mini-update." It helps to realize we're all in this together.

Zoey Wren is doing awesome. The girl is damn funny. She really has no concept of relative size, so we often find her lugging around, dragging, or otherwise wrestling with object much larger/heavier than her. Pair of mama's boots? No big thing to our little SweetPea, pick 'em up and tote them around! Jumbo laundry basket twice as tall as you are? Forgetaboutit! New toy! Quite hilarious. We usually help her out with her self-appointed manual labor. After we're done laughing.

I'll try and get those other pictures up soon, they're awesome.

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Onomatopoeia

So my lifelong (okay, 13 month-long) dream of having Zoey's first word be onomatopoeia has long since been dashed. Dada, mama, this, that, bottle (well, "baba") and a few others have sealed onomatopoeia's fate to not be Z's first utterance. But the girl is quickly picking up some signs that coupled with her verbal-vocab are making life a lot easier for El and I. "More," "want," "milk," and "nice" are entering the Zoey lexicon. Virtually overnight she is adding these essentials to her vocabulary. I'm gonna have to watch my sailor's mouth.

Thanksgiving was an exhausting hoot for us. We were at my cousin's in Westchester, and they have a very nice sunken family room with small steps into and out of it. Zoey spent five hours doing laps up around and down. Mom and Dad were never far behind, helping the little Sweet Pea with the "down" part (up the stairs is a solo act for little Zoey Wren). I think Ellyn and I are the only two people in America to have lost weight at Thanksgiving.

I hope everyone had a happy and safe Turkey Day.

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Pizza Skeletons

Apologies for the month-long gap in updates.

The photo set has a lot of firsts for Zoey in it: her first Halloween skeleton costume, her first bites of pizza, and her first time voting (she picked a winner!).

It's impossible to put a month of Zoey's life into a few paragraphs (which is why you should update more than once a month, dummy!), but here are some brief highlights. Motor skills: Zoey is loving getting into her bumbo seat all by herfelf. She often ends up backwards in it, and isn't all that good at getting out of it, but she LOVES getting into that chair. Her walking/running has unlocked a new super-power - Going In Circles. If El or I are sitting on the floor, Zoey will do laps around us until we get too tired. It's mainly right-turns at the moment, in case you were wondering.

On the verbal front, little Miss Z. Wren's language is exploding. She's said such sundry things as "bread," "giraffe," "toes," and "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." (my favorite Amendment, dontcha know). She's also following directions. Sorta. The other night I asked zoey if she wanted to sit in my lap to read a book, and she waddled right over, plopped herself down, and let me read to her for an entire 38 seconds. Good stuff.

It's turned frigid up here, so I suspect the next several batches of photos will include lots of Zoey-Under-45-feet-of-bunting shots. So you all have that too look forward to.

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Walkin' and Coughin'

The little Sweet Pea got sick at exactly the wrong time - right when she was goin to have her 1st birthday party. Shazblat! She's had a fever and cough for the last few days, and the doctor said it would probably last another week. So we had to put off the festivities. That didn't stop Zoey Wren from showing off her awesome powers of twirling, though.

Enjoy her waddlings and I'll try and get some photos up in the next day or so.

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