What a Weekend!!!

Wow, what a weekend I've had! Friday morning I woke up to Zoey having a fever of 101.3. I was just a little concerned because she was on antibiotics so I called the Dr on my way into work to see what I needed to do. We set up an appointment for that afternoon! So I went on my marry way at work knowing that Zoey was in good hands with Daddy at home! When I got home at 2:30 to take her to the Dr her temp was a whopping 104.3!!!! I shoved Tylenol down her throat and threw her in the car and rushed to the Dr (I was glad I already had an appointment!). When the Dr finally got in to see us he checked her ears. "Wow, that's bad!" He said that she had a bad double ear infection. She had been in to see him 10 days earlier because her eyes were all swollen and he said she had a minor ear infection. We put her on antibiotics (the pink stuff). Well, I guess after 10 days the antibiotics didn't touch her ear infection and it just kept getting worse. Of course because she's such a good baby I had no idea! Even with the fever I would have never guessed she was sick because she didn't stop playing and being as happy as always! Anyways, so now we're on another round of antibiotics (the white stuff now)! Saturday she continued to run high fevers but by Sunday night they tapered back down to normal, thank goodness!!! Hopefully these antibiotics will do the trick! The only rough part with the bad ear infection (that started Thursday night) is that the drainage causes Zoey to cough at nights. This then wakes her up sometimes and I have to go in and rock her back to sleep. I can't really complain though because these are such precious moments to me. Zoey doesn't snuggle hardly at all (even at nights) so I totally take advantage of when she will snuggle with me even if it's 3am!

Well, since it's been awhile since I've blogged here are just a few things about Zoey growing that I think is so fun!

1. She has 2 of her molar teeth just starting to show through!
2. She knows where her Nose and Ears are (I'll try and get a video of this), we're now working on eyes!
3. She LOVES Noggin' especially Jack's Big Music Show, when she's hears it come on (I love Free Video on Demand) She stops whatever she's doing and comes running!
4. She is totally into her routines, especially at night. Bath, teeth, book, prayer, bed! She even knows what's coming and gets ready by that door or gets the book or will fold her arms before I'm even down on the floor! Also in the mornings she knows that I leave right after prayer so as soon as it's over she goes to the front door and starts waving bye bye even if I'm not over there just yet!
5. She likes to give 5! It's so cute!
6. Her hair is really starting to grow! I can still only put it in a little pony tail on the top of her head but it's getting longer in the back!
7. She LOVES grapes!!! This is probably her favorite food!
8. She likes to do Patty Cake.
9. She LOVES her babysitter! I'm glad about this one because I know she has fun over there.
10. Um,.... I'm sure there is tons more but that's all I can think of for now!

Hopefully I'll get some pictures of her to put up soon for ya'll.

Enjoy -

Zoey's New Skill...

Ok everyone, Zoey has an awesome new skill! Ok, so it is really awesome but it totally scared mommy the first time she did it! Towards the end you can also see her say Bye Bye and blow a kiss! Yeah, I think she's the cutest kid ever!

Zoey's 'Official' 1 Year Pictures

Last weekend we had the wonderful opportunity to have Amy (the awesome photographer Clay works for) take Zoey's 1 Year/Easter pictures. I am still in shock that my little one is a year old! We went to a park by her house and had a blast. As always Zoey was all over the place! She is one active little kiddo! It was fun to watch Amy chase after her. She got some great shots in even with her all over the place. Here are a few of the great pictures she took. She looks so sweet in this picture!

I thought this was a great family picture. I think it shows the true character of us right now. Zoey just running everywhere!

She got some great shots of her on the playground. Zoey got fussy at the end but she did like to climb the stairs!

Zoey decided to try and climb up the slide after sliding down. This is now one of her favorite things to do! Luckily she can't get high enough to hurt herself, yet!

To see a few more of the great pictures Amy took check out her blog.

Zoey Helping with Brownies

Last weekend I had a free card making night at my house (see my craft blog post). I wanted to make yummy treats for everyone who came so after I got home from work Friday night I started to make brownies. Zoey has gotten to the stage where she has to be involved in everything I do. If I'm cooking dinner she either has to be in my arms or playing right next to me (unless I turn on Noggin' then she watches tv!). Anyways, this time I thought it might be cute if I gave her her own pot and fork to 'make' her own brownies. She LOVED it! She stirred for at least 15 minutes (which is a long time for Zoey to do anything consistently). I had to get some pictures of the adorableness so here are just a few of my favorites...

She'd lay on the pillow and still stir, totally cute!

She'd even lick the fork in between stirs! (no, she didn't get that from mommy, I do not like brownie batter, now cookie dough on the other hand...)


Zoey seemed to enjoy 'cooking' with mommy so much that now when I am actually cooking something for dinner and I might be more then 2 minutes at the microwave I pull her out some of our dishes and let her play on the floor next to me.

Picnic at the Park

About a week ago the weather was beautiful here so we decided to take Zoey to the park by the church and have a picnic. We had wanted to take her to swing and had finally found a park in the colony that had baby swings. We had such a fun time. Zoey loved swinging and playing. Here are some cute pictures we took.

Look at me swing!

Look ma! I'm flying.

She was so cute laughing and swinging. We really had a good time.

I hope we have this much fun next time we go to the park!

Characters by Lois

So I have a friend that makes this awesome letters for people. I've tried my hand at making a few letters and they are NOTHING compared to hers! She's doing a give away right now so hop on over to her blog and check it out! Here's one of her awesome letters she did not too long ago.

Zoey's New Pj's

The other day I had to run to Wal-Mart to get a few items we needed to get us through the next week. Since Clay and Zoey were already in the car with me (we had gone to the park for a picnic, I'll post about that later) I made them come with me real fast. One of the things we needed was Sippie Cups so we had to go to the baby sections at Wal-Mart. As I was getting what I needed Daddy and Zoey took a look at the clothes and of course Daddy was drawn to the Batman and Spiderman PJ's! Lucky for him PJ's were one of the things on my list because Zoey's been growing and doesn't fit into the PJ's I bought her last summer and the warm PJ's are just too warm right now. So, I caved and let him buy this pair of PJ's for Zoey...

Yes, it has a cape that is removable...
Doesn't she look cute! I think she kinda looks like a boy but you should see her in the pair of PJ's I picked out for her....
Now that's what I call a cute little girl!!!