awesomeness!

Zoey is 3 months now, this is what has been going on the last 3 weeks.

she can now grab things with one hand pretty well, but since she started rolling over she has not wanted to grab things anymore. i guess that happens, she is working so hard on perfecting rolling over that she doesnt want to do anything else! she got her daddy's focus i guess!

she rolls front to back and back to front now, she has been doing back to belly for about a month almost now but she just started rolling belly to back this week.

i bought her a big foam alphabet mat to roll around on and she loves it!

she has a little friend named elaine (lainey) who is 10 weeks old, they hung out yesterday, Zoey was mesmerized by her, it was so cute!

i'm getting the hang of being a mommy and i have started getting on a schedule which i have never done. Zoey really prefers a schedule and she is doing well with the structure.

we wake up at 9am, she has her first nap at 10am, i get some house work done, she gets up at 11am, we hang out with daddy, bring him to work at 12 or 12:30, she usually falls asleep in the car and sleeps until 1 or so. we hang out until about 4 then we both take a nap, get up around 5 sometimes she sleeps until 6, her bed time is 8 and i go to sleep around midnight.

she is still teething hard core, no teeth through yet, but the top ones are getting really close. i am using homeopathic remedies and cold teethers and she is doing alright with that, but sometimes they seem to really bug her, poor thing.

we got pictures done for grandma with her cousin natie, i am waiting to get the email with all of them, i'll post some when i get them.

hope everyone is doing well, off to make some lunch before zoey wakes up!

lots of love

danielle

doing great!

Bought a CAR!!!!

yay, dont have pictures of it yet, i will soon.

its a 2005 mitsubishi outlander in green, just look it up.

here are some pictures, zoey is doing great she is almost 14lbs now, i cant believe it! i will have to order more diapers for her soon, she is growing so fast i cant keep up!!!

unconditional joy

so, my new years resolution

to experience unconditional joy in every aspect of my life.

you can read more about this philosophy on www.enjoyparenting.com

it really resonates with me, i have just been too down lately and this is something i am going to embrace fully!

here's to hoping everyone enjoys this new year!

lots of love

danielle and zoey

hey, i broke my record!

i posted more than 6 times this month!

haha, maybe this signals a change. i may actually end up making a habit of using this thing more!

hope everyone is having a good day, and i hope no one needs groceries cuz everything is closed.

dammit!

sometimes i want to bang my head against a wall

so last nights post was great, then the crying started.

she didnt want me to lay down, she didnt want me to put her in the wrap, she didnt want me to sit still.

until 11am.

yes ladies and gentlemen, i didnt get to go to sleep until 11 this morning.

yeah.

this was by far the roughest night we have experienced and hopefully it was just from going out all day and being stressed by the holidays.

the biggest issue was how exhausted i was from running errands all day, if i had just stayed home i would have been fine to stay up all night dancing with her. but no, i had to be a stupid mommy and try to get too much done and boy did i pay for it.

after 5 hours of sleep today i feel much better and i have definitly been taking it easy because the kind of tired i felt last night is something i dont ever want to experience again. it was the kind of frustration that makes me start to understand how someone could resort to the desperate measure of letting their poor little baby cry in another room until they fell asleep.

not that i would ever be able to do that, i really couldnt, but i can see how someone could fall into that dark spiral. now i understand.

since her circadian rhythm is on the fritz, i may work on making some of the bread tonight and just go with the flow of being up all night.

hopefully she will tolerate the wrap better tonight, that is what killed me last night is having to just hold her and dance with her, she is HEAVY at 6 in the morning when you are dead tired and want to scream.

her diapers still havent shown up, they are probably not going to get her before christmas now, i was hoping to have them before having to go to my moms so she could be more comfortable. 

oh well, we'll make do.

love you lots

danielle and zoey

today was a good day

my sister came over and we spent the day together. it's nice to hang out with her, we have been growing much closer over the last year or so!

we went shopping for supplies for the bread i am making for everyone for christmas. even though i dont celebrate christmas, my family does and i always like an excuse to bake.

this year it is going to be divided equally between pumpkin and banana bread. it was close though between banana and zucchini, bananas only one out because there wasnt enough zucchini at the store to make 10 loaves.

i am wrapping them in really cute plaid fabric i found while i was out today, i dont think paper is a good wrapping tool and i can collect the pieces back or people can reuse them.

hopefully i will also have time to make my niece some mommy and baby elephants that i found a pattern for. i am going to use the same fabric that i am using to wrap the bread with.

Zoey is sleeping on my chest in her wrap right now, i love watching her sleep. i will miss this when its gone.

i ordered new diapers for Zoey and hopefully they will be here tomorrow, she has reached capacity on her old ones and i can hardly get them fastened.

i am already having to  box stuff up and put it away for the next little one, it makes me sad in a weird bittersweet way, she is growing well and is really healthy so that is great, but my little girl is growing up more every day and i cant help but think that it is going by too fast.

oh, i got craig an R2D2 fishtank for solstice, it is really cool. i am going to get some black moors for it tomorrow.

i'll put up pictures after christmas, its going to be a very busy next few days.

love you all

danielle and zoey!

oh yeah, the joys

Zoey just fell back to sleep and left me now totally awake and unable to go back to sleep after a whopping 2 hours of sleep last night.

i have a feeling that she will not go back to sleep if i take her out of the wrap too so looks like i'm up for a while.

i know that very soon i will look back and miss these moments, right?

she is totally cute right now at least, all snuggly on my chest.

i can take a nap later.