Zoey's Diary: Five Months
Hi Hi Hi!
Can you believe me and Luke--we're five months old! Fair warning: Mommy went a little crazy with the pictures this month...
Lots of tummy time lately...we're getting so strong...
We're smiling and laughing, talking and cooing and making lots of noise overall. I make these high-pitched squeals that Mommy and Daddy say make me sound like a baby teradactyl.
Toys are a big thing now...but our attention span isn't very long...
I call my brother Bubs you know...here's Bubs with Grammy and Grandpa's dog Jack...we're getting to be such good friends with the dogs in our lives...
Bubs is holding his own bottle some of the time these days. I do, too, but not as often:
And Bubs racked out at Grammy and Grandpa's. We're doing better with naps, and sleeping at night these days...
One of Grammy's best friends came to visit a few weeks ago...Sandie...Mommy said she remembers Sandie so well from growing up. Sandie brought Mommy and Daddy a meal when we were tiny babies...it was so good to see her again.
We've been spending lots of time with Grammy and Grandpa. We love them so much.
Here's Grandpa and Bubs. Grandpa will pick him or me up and say, "Hey! Do you want to ride to Texas? That's what my Grandpa used to do with me." And then he sits us on his knee like we're riding a horse and jiggles us up and down. Mommy says it makes her so happy to see previous generations living on. She told us Grandpa's Grandpa was from Sweden, and came to Texas and was a cowboy, and then moved to Seattle and became a blacksmith...that's where our Grandpa knew him.
Grandma Charlotte came to visit us this month, too. We love Grandma Charlotte!
Grandpa is drying fruit right now from the orchard:
We got a taste (even though according to Mommy fruit is not allowed yet as we are JUST starting on solids.)
I've got this eating-upside-down thing going on:
Here are me and Grandma Charlotte and Mommy in Palisade...we went there for lunch one day and then drove back through the orchards and vineyards...so fun.
Our Mommy works sometimes, but she's usually with us at the same time. She loves us so much it's hard for her to be away from us. Sometimes she really has to concentrate though, and when that happens she gives us to Daddy or Grammy for a little while.
Here's some more pictures of me and Bubs with Mommy:
And us with Daddy. Oh my gosh, we love our Daddy soooooooo much! He's got some new fun stuff going on with us. Like letting us ride on his shoulders. And he's been watching Spider-Man cartoons with Bubs, and the other day he held my brother up to the ceiling and wiggled him along it like he was crawling on the ceiling all the while singing a made-up song that went, "Spider-Bubs, Spider-Bubs, doing everything that a Spider-Bubs can." Mommy laughed so hard. She said we need a video of Spider Bubs.
Daddy doesn't do Spider Man with me, but his nickname for me is Cheese and he also calls me his princess. The other day he called me Princess Cheese, of the Pouf Pouf Clan. Daddy has the best names for me! He also calls me Cranky Pants sometimes (of course he's been calling me Sissy Pants since Day 1). Lately, he and Mommy have been talking about Freezy Pants, which Mommy says is my potential little brother or sister, in the freezer at the fertility clinic in Denver.
Mommy loves these pictures of me.
In the mornings, Mommy hangs out with us. Sometimes we go for walks, but sometimes we just hang out in our PJs:
Or get dressed and just chill in the bed. Mommy plays songs on her iPhone and we sing and she helps each of us dance to the music one at a time.
Afternoons during the week Mommy often works, and Daddy will nap us. (Afternoons on the weekend--really pretty much all weekend--Daddy says it's one baby per customer.)
Sometimes he holds one on either side of him and lets us fuss until we all fall asleep. We call him the Nap Ogre when her does that. We cry really hard for like a minute and then go right to sleep.
And now, we come to the rice cereal part of this post. We love rice cereal, but Mommy and Daddy only give it to us right before our bath. Mommy says she knows rice cereal can be messy, but this is ridiculous.
I'm pretty much focused on eating while I'm eating. Bubs sometimes makes noise, though. He'll go "num, num, num, num," which makes Mommy laugh so hard.
The mess is made worse by Daddy's "Eat It or Wear It" policy (although we get just as messy when Mommy feeds us):
So that's been our month. Fun, fun and more fun!
Bye for now!
Love,
Zoey
CORRECTIONS DEPT.:
My husband/Zoey's daddy read this after posting and said, "First of all, it's Princess Cheesy Poof Poof spelled "poof" not "pouf". And, it is not Princess Cheesy Poof Poof of the Poof Poof CLAN, it's the Poof Poof EMPIRE.
"Mommy doesn't fact check before she posts."
