blackmoondog

So much to post, I have no idea where to start. Looks like my last post was at 11 months. Well, I'm back thanks to another round of I-will-only-nap-on-your-person-or-in-the-carseat. Yeehaw! So while I still have a small person sleeping on my thigh with her head between my knees (Gotta love toddler physics. Breastfeeding is a hoot - NOT!) I'll try to fill in the past 5 months (zoiks!).

I figured out why I was steamrolled by The Holidays this year. It wasn't the holiday season. It was The Baroness kicking out her pacifier a week before Thanksgiving and wanting me to replace it with a boob, 24x7. She got FOUR molars between Thanksgiving and Valentine's Day, we hosted a birthday playgroup that had me cleaning for several weeks to make my filthy house fit for other people's crawling babies, Zoe got Roseola and THEN we still had to do the usual Christmas stuff. It kicked my arse. Then my crawler started walking, and grabbing, and all of a sudden I had a toddler.

The birthday party was fun, though I think we may dispense with the birthday parties and continue with our usual family ritual of going somewhere fun. Our Disneyland trip in December was cancelled since Zoe wasn't walking yet so I think we'll try again in December 2008. I think we'll probably do annual passes this year since we'll have to start buying Zoe tickets after her birthday in 2009.

Walking started in January and we've progressed from a few wobbly steps to nearly running in the past three months. She's currently in the scratch & dent stage of babyhood where her feet move faster than her sense of balance can keep up with. She's also started doing this little dance when she's excited (like the penguin on Happy Feet) and stomping when she's mad. It's really cute.

We're in teething hell again as tooth #12 begins to emerge. Only 8 more and we'll be done until she's replacing the baby teeth with the adult set. I'm really looking forward to the teething stage being over.

Wow. I didn't realize just how cheesy Pete's Dragon was. Maybe I should have put in Grease instead. Zoe loves musicals -- She loved Enchanted when we had it from Netflix, her first favorite movie! Hey! Jeff Conaway is in both Pete's Dragon & Grease... OK... back to Zoe.

New words have been coming in bursts. "Hi" and "Dog" were the first words, shortly followed by "cat". We've now got "dada", "bye", "this", "that", "go", "bottle", "bite", and the dreaded "no". Oh yeah, she says "Mama" but only when she's really cheesed off. And "Nay" for "nurse". Her first sentence just happened and was "Bite that." Usually repeated with vigor and pointing when we're eating something that looks interesting.

I'm sure there's a ton of stuff I'm forgetting but I'll leave it here for now and hopefully get back to the monthly updates.

Number of teeth: 11, with another on the way
Weight: 22lbs
Length: 30inches
Clothing size: 18 month tops, bottoms need 18 month rise, 12 month waist & length *sigh*
Mobility: On the verge of running. Readying to leap tall buildings in a single bound.
Travel since last update: Did Thanksgiving in the Bay Area, Christmas in the Bay Area & Hanford, and headed back to the Bay Area in February for the Stitches West convention.
Foods: Just about anything. Strawberries are a current favorite.