Playing with Blocks

Mommy left Zoe in her room to play for a few minutes while I got ready to go out - when I left the room all the blocks were in their wooden box, but when I walked down the hall I noticed Zoe somehow made her way to the box and as you will see only 1/2 the blocks are still in the box. And then she was trying to pick up the whole box but it was about as big as she was. :)

9 Month Pics

We are 9 months old already - it seems I just put one month pics up and then another month rolls by...We're growing, learning and enjoying life. We love watching everything new - running water, cooking food, playing cards. In the last month, we've started taking a bath in the big tub, started playing peek-a-boo, upgraded to a bigger crib, started trying to walk with help...

This video is sideways - because I don't know how to rotate a video and I don't want to spend the time trying to figure it out ;) - As you'll see in the video - we were playing a new game - two toys, one in each hand. We would drop one with the right hand - transfer the toy in the left hand to the right hand and bend down and pick up the toy she dropped with the left hand - then repeat, and repeat and repeat :)

We're growing up

Well, we sat in the cart at Whole Foods the other day like a big girl for the first time. She was so excited. Although we had to keep an eye on her - or else I would have ended up with some Papaya and who knows what else in my cart.

We like the grass

We tried sitting in the grass the other day - we love discovering new things.

Swimming again...

Swimming for a few minutes tonight. Mommy wasn't necessarily in swimming attire, but it worked.

Daddy's shoulders...

Not better place than seeing things from up here.

I found someone in Zoe's crib...

But it wasn't Zoe. Squeak seems to think it's his bed when Zoe's not in there.

Playtime...

Zoe and her lambs...

We're happy...then we fell over and we're not happy about this pose anymore.

Good night...

Mommy and Zoe just got back from shopping...

And Zoe says "oh my, that was a lot of stores in one night, but it was fun." :o)

Pap's work picnic...

Well, Friday we went to Pap's work picnic. As you can see we were a little to0 small to ride the train ourself, so mommy went with Zoe (don't know how I fit in there - the hard part was getting out). The kids got rides all afternoon - so at the end it was time for an adult ride! Also, you'll see the pic with our first taste of ice cream (Coldstone Creamery).

8 month pics

Finally got some new pics up today. She was more interested in finding and playing with her rattle than giving me a good pose as you can see ;) We're doing good. We've been swimming the past couple days, which she loves (as you can see in the short video below). We went and picked some veggies out of pap and grandma's garden last night - so we're soon going to be busy canning and freezing stuff. Today we're going to Pap's work picnic - I'll try to get some pics from that and post them this weekend. Enjoy your weekend whereever you are!

We love to swim...

Here's a short video of Zoe swimming - she loves to try to move herself in that raft and she loves that crazy cup - although she would really like to drink the pool water - we haven't discussed the harmfulness of chlorine yet :)

That's one big carrot...

Daddy brought home some organic carrots today for us to juice and they are pretty big for chewing on.