Thanksgiving Break

We really didn't get to many pictures over Thanksgiving Break. Ben took the week off and we have spent the majority of our time at Ben's parents house. We really didn't do a whole lot. Just hung out with his family and his Aunt and cousins that were visiting. 

The bottom Picture is actually on Thanksgiving day but my computer won't let me move it to the top and so it's stuck on the bottom. I think that is the only picture that didn't turn out blurry from thanksgiving. But it's a pretty cute picture. 

The other pictures are from today. We took Zoe to the tide pools. It was really fun. She was having a good ol' time. She especially thought it was funny when Daddy took her out on some of the rocks and got stuck there when the wave came in.  Then they ran really fast to try and beat the next wave so Zoe wouldn't get wet, and they ran into a big rock. It was funny. Sadly I didn't get a picture of that. We did see a star fish, and the sun looked really cool with the clouds around it. And my feet got soaked and Ben dropped the camera in the ocean. (oops) We hope it will still work. As of right now it won't turn on.

That was our thanksgiving. I'm so glad that Ben took the whole week off. It was really fun to have him around so much. And I'm sure he appreciated all the diapers he got to change!

Bored

As I was sitting here bored, knowing that I should go and make baby food but not really wanting to, I decided to post some pictures.  We really haven't done anything fun or interesting lately. And we really haven't taken to many pictures. So this is what we have.

Here's Zoe practicing sitting. She is doing much better. She can sit straighter for a longer period of time before she falls over. She isn't very interested in sitting right now. I sit her up and she immediately leans till she's on the ground and can roll. The problem is that she doesn't want to just sit there, she wants to practice crawling and moving around.

This is the only picture of me we have taken recently. Kinda Scary.

Here is a picture of Zoe exploring her carseat. What's under here Mom? 

And this is how Zoe thinks you are supposed to crawl. She gets on her tippy toes and wobbles for a minute, then she falls over. Sometimes she even uses her head to balance. But that doesn't help her crawl forward.

She has actually discovered that if there is something just barely out of reach then she can do a belly flop forward. She looks like a little worm moving forward. It looks kinda painful, but it gets her where she wants to go. And I guess that is what matters. Hopefully after thanksgiving we will have some more and better pictures to post. Everyone eat lots and have a great Thanksgiving!

Another Box!!!

One day a couple weeks ago Zoe was crying and crying and I couldn't get her to stop. So in desperation I put the canvas box that we keep her toys in over her head.  Stopped crying immediately. Started laughing. And now the canvas box is her favorite toy. She loves it when someone puts the box on her head. 

She also likes to cover her own head with the box.
And sometimes she'll just sit there with her head in the box. 
Isn't it amazing the things that fascinate kids?

A Box!!

This is what happens when Ben is in charge of intertaining Zoe. She ends up in a box, zooming around our living room. But she did think it was fun. She was laughing the whole time, thought it was the funniest thing. 

Halloween

Nana has been waiting patiently until after the elections to see any more pictures of Zoe on the blog. Here are some pictures from Halloween week. A couple were taken at the pumkin patch and a couple were taken just before Zoe's first trip trick-or-treating. 

I do have to mention that I am grateful that Californians chose to define marriage as between a man and a woman so that I can teach Zoe the values I hold with out some teacher contradicting what I say.