Tag: zooey update

Monkey see, monkey do, Zooey is watching and something is hatching… there are so many ways to learn and yours is a given – three big siblings to watch, to eyeball, to scrutinize, and decide whether you want to try it yourself. It’s your way.

It may be autumn but your steps are in full bloom. Your toddle is… toddle-y, and exactly as it should be. It’s not that you couldn’t walk or wouldn’t walk, but I think we both know you were going to go with what came easier to you as you cautiously sorted out the whole walking…

We’ve been waiting for you to join us, and you’re finally having your Neil Armstrong moment. One small step, Zooey, is another month until you’ll be racing after us? Hello! Hello? Hello. Waving or saying it or pretending to talk on the phone. Mostly pretending to be talking on the phone. Talking on anything but a…

Summer, full-time This is the first time in eight years we haven’t gone abroad to visit extended family for part of August. I feel a little bad, as you’d get a bunch of spoiling, but we did travel in May, your grandpa has come for a week, and you have been abroad three times in…

We can hear you… your language is taking better shape… whether it’s your soft babble or your ‘dis’ or your just-barely ’emma’. We hear you, Zooey. We’re listening. Or maybe it’s your language in movement… your little sideways waves. Or maybe it’s your attempt at major movement – trying to walk. Taking steps to taking…

Sisters. You have a couple. And one sings you sweet songs and strokes your chubba arms and gives you kisses. And the other kinda tortures you. …and then she sings you sweet songs and strokes your chubba arms and gives you kisses. And while you’re not being entertained by your siblings’ madness, you’re learning to entertain…

Let’s hear it for the world-traveling babies! The babies who try new things! The babies who aren’t afraid to fly! (Literally!) The worldly babies who won’t wait around, will grab your plate, will have what they’re having. The babies who climb up the stone stairs when you’re not paying attention, when your back is turned…

Don’t we know it, Zooey. It’s not easy snagging attention around here. I guess you have a hometown advantage of being the easiest to carry on my back. Just a bunch of koalas after all. It’s not hard to believe a year has gone by – it’s been such a packed year, what with me…

(See? I told you I’d be up in your face making you crazy-laugh again…) The sun and warmth and faint smell of spring have started to creep up around us and so your winter sniffles and spotty sleep schedule have started to melt away. Literally, right now, we’re on the floor together, you’re up on…

There are months when I take a million and a half pictures of you, where I’m up in your face covering you in kisses, where I tickle torture you until you snort. Zooey this was not one of those months because there’s so much going on. But I’ve missed you during late nights at work…

On the one hand, you make your opinions known. My baby ate my homework. On the other hand, you have to constantly watch your back. Good sport. And that’s a lesson in how to survive in your family of six.