Pictures from Thanksgiving Weekend

I met my uncle Kevin and he and my Aunt Barbara brought me this really cool pedal car. I'm too little to pedal, but I love going for rides!
My first Thanksgiving dinner. I love spiced peaches.

My winter hat. Did I mention I hate hats?

One of my Christmas presents. See post below. My mommy has no impulse control.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! I bet you can guess what we're most thankful for this year.

Really Cool Toy

I'm so excited about this really cool toy I just bought Zoe for Christmas. It's a giant hugable dinasour that also has 60 different colored balls in it and acts like a ball pit when it is unzipped. I imagine we're going to have 60 different colored balls floating around the basement....but still, it's really cute :)

This has been a crazy week. On Monday Zoe woke up and couldn't put weight on her left leg. She kept falling so I took her to the peditrician thinking they would just tell me that she pulled a muscle. Nope, off to the hospital we went for X-rays and bloodwork with both mom and baby in tears. Zoe, wisely, is not a fan of bloodwork and the tech was not terribly good at finding her vein. It broke my heart to have to hold her down. Then off to X-rays we went where again we had to restrain her so they could get a picture of her hips. I guess there is a common hip infection that kids can get that causes a sudden limp. As it turns out she is fine. We think she may have slept on it funny because for the next couple of days she limped after naps and waking. I was also really stressed because I had work that was due on Monday and I had no choice but to go to the office and get it done. Working mom guilt. I'm so thankful that my mom and Ed were able to come over last minute and watch Zoe for me. I obviously didn't want to take her to daycare if she were in pain.

Thanksgiving is finally upon us. Us 12-month employees really look forward to this 5 day weekend (they give us Wednesday off too). Eric and I are going to take Zoe to daycare on Wednesday and have a date day. We're planning on going to a movie together for the first time since we brought Zoe home. I'm looking so forward to spending the 5 days with Zoe (and for my brother to finally meet her!), but I've missed the one on one time with Eric and can't wait for that as well.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!!

A little update

In her sock monkey Nick and Nora PJ's.....this picture doesn't do it justice

Zoe and Daddy were disappointed with the Colts performance on Sunday. (Thanks for the jersey Shawn and Karen!)


It's getting harder and harder to take pictures of Zoe since she loves the camera so much that when she sees it she comes running (yes, we're running now...and still falling) over so quickly I can't get the picture taken without it just being a gigantic one of her head. Her pictures now need to be snapped without her knowing it's coming :)

I found these Nick and Nora Sock Monkey pjs at Target....oh my they are so cute. I need to go back and get a few more pairs. I had no idea they made these for little ones. This week has been a good one. Zoe enjoyed trick or treating at a couple of the neighbors house. My mom and Ed came over for Halloween night and Zoe loved the attention and showing off her bumblebee costume. I think, if our scale is correct, that Zoe has finally topped the 20 pound mark and we can finally turn her carseat to forward facing. She's getting so tall that she's a bit scrunched being backwards. I still think it's the safer way to travel though. Oh, got some interesting info from Zoe's daycare. As it turns out, she self feeds her bottle there and has been doing it for a while. She also just lays down and takes a nap in the cot without a fuss now.....These are not behaviors we are seeing at home :) She still loves mom and dad to hold her bottle and her sleep requires some effort here. She's still facinated with lights and she loves to point them all out saying "Ight, ight". She loves to turn the switches on and off and is so proud of herself to watch the effect. It's the little things I guess :) She's walking up stairs now and tries to reach for the railing which is way too high for her so she needs to take our hands or she kind of goes hand then full foot up the stairs. I won't let her try to come down them yet...our stairs are really steep.

On Monday we found out we had an offer on our house. We put the house on the market in August thinking that when Zoe started walking we'd be out of space, and we'd had some repairs done on it so we thought why not? We'll we're not close to being out of space and we love our home so we were a bit taken aback by getting an offer in this horrible market. Luckily the deal isn't going through as the buyer can't afford what our bottom line is. It was very enlightening as we found ourselves 99% happy/relieved and only 1% disappointed not to have to leave. I think we'll probably stay here until 2009 and then re-evaluate if we decide to add another kiddo to the mix. It's hard to move when there is little or nothing on the market that you like better than what you are currently in ;)