Zoe is 7 months! And we went to New York...

In the past few weeks, Zoe has become such a little person-it's truly amazing! She is sitting well and is grabbing and playing with her little toys. She loves to sit next to a basket of toys and pull them all out. She also started babbling the last few days-Maya's first "word" was da-da. I had high hopes for Zoe, but in the end, her first words are ba-ba! Guess we know where I stand in this family ;)

Zoe eats like a champ-she loves her purees and has started eating some small finger foods. She loves mum-mums and puffs and she may have had a McD's french fry the other day...

This weekend we went to New York for Thanksgiving and I took a lot of pictures with my new lens, which is now my favorite.

First subway ride:


With Daddy:





In Riverside Park:









Mmm...Sweet potatoes:



Dancing in Necklace's dress up:





All bundled up:





Stopping for cupcakes at Magnolia Bakery:

Zoe's 6 month stats..

Weight: 19.03 lbs (95th percentile)
Height: 27.5 inches (95th percentile)
Head: 17.4 cm (80th percentile)












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Cute Girlies!

Maya loves Zoe's new playmat...and she loves to lay next to Zoe and show how cute they are together...and I agree!











Recently Zoe has been enjoying great solid meals and is sitting up well, so she deserved her very own high chair!

Halloween Night...

On Halloween night we went to our friend's Mariel and Jason's house for a Halloween BBQ. This meant we had to dress up as well! I tried to find a low impact costume set for us--so can you guess who we are?



For those of you who don't watch TV or read gossip rags, we were Jon & Kate of Jon & Kate plus 8 "fame"...

We hit up the local neighborhood for some candy and Maya had a great time and kept saying "Just a couple more houses"...we cut it a little short because it was raining and Zoe was exhausted...

Halloween Parade

Maya had her Halloween parade at school last Thursday--she has been looking forward to it since the 4th of July parade. She was one of three ladybugs in her class..and her friend Amelia was a very cute flower..

Here she is with Miss Michelle, still her favorite teacher at CHMS:



Waiting with Amelia during line up:





Parading past us:





Class picture:

Rolling munchkin

It's a mixed blessing that rolling. On one hand, one loves to see development in your little baby. There is so much that changes that first year! On the other hand, it's pretty nice to put a baby down for a few minutes and be assured that you'll find her in the same place you left her. That era is now over in our house.
At some point in the recent history, Zoe learned how to become quite fast at rolling both ways, which means we often find her off the playmat, rug, blanket or wherever we put her. Luckily she is always happy wherever she ends up:




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Playgroup Halloween Party

Maya has been in a playgroup since she was about 7 months old. We started out with about eight moms, each with one kiddo. Over the last 2.5 years a couple of the moms left and we added a couple more. Now there are 8 moms and 15 kids.

On Wednesday afternoon we hit a local park for a little Halloween party. Everyone pitched in and brought an activity and/or snack. I took the easy way out and brought the drinks ;)

Here are a few pictures...

Zoe is 6 months already!

I can't believe my little munchkin is already half way to one year! She is truly such a happy little Buddha baby. She loves hanging out, watching her sister, giggling and checking out the world around her. She's getting pretty good at sitting for a few seconds, is rolling both ways and I am fairly certain more teeth are coming in (at least, I hope so!).

Here are a few pictures from today--we had a playgroup Halloween birthday party and Zoe made her debut as the cutest Bee ever. I'll have more pictures of the party soon, but for now the focus is on little Zo-Zo.





Thoroughly exhausted and ready to go home:

Ice Skater

Last weekend, Maya attended her first birthday party at an ice skating rink, which was her first time ice skating. Both Peter and I skated a lot as kids, so I figured she would enjoy it and boy, was I right!














Zoe stayed home, but she is super cute as always...






Today, Maya went to her first birthday party for a classmate today..which happened to be at the ice rink as well! Peter sent this picture:



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Boo at the Zoo

Last night we went to Boo at the Zoo--it's an evening event at the National Zoo for Halloween--kids come all dressed up and there are lots of booths giving away treats (some healthy, some not) and activities for the kids, as well as lots of cool light displays. This was the first year we thought Maya would really enjoy it. We left Zoe at home with Baba since we weren't sure she'd appreciate it yet. Abby, Amy and Mike joined us as well..

It's really hard to get pictures of Maya these days-if you ask her to say "cheese", she either pouts and looks away or gives you a head tilted grimace..which you will see in the pictures below...







Evil Ladybug appears in the hay:



Phew..cute ladybug is back:



The glow in the dark lollipop was a hit:


As were the potato chips: