First day of school!

Today was Owen's first day at his new school. He was very excited to meet his new friends. He doesn't even seem to mind wearing a uniform.

We are so proud of our big little boy!

On the move!

What an exciting time. After several stops we have all arrived at our new home in Portugal. And, Zoe is crawling. On our very last morning in our old apartment, she took off on her first independent excursion. Where did she go? To see her big brother. She is still crawling on her tummy, commando-style, but she's working very hard at getting up on her hands and knees. Look out, world!

No words

This is what Owen was typing on Mike's computer tonight while we ignored him and worked on moving stuff:

July, 2010

Zoe is 5 months old and is... eating some solid food, sitting up on her own for long stretches before toppling over, rolling over both ways, trying really hard to get up on her hands and knees to crawl, blowing raspberries ALL the time, getting used to people that aren't her mommy, and always ready for a wet sloppy kiss.




In other news, our entire lives have been boxed, wrapped, and shipped to Portugal.


Owen seems to understand and enjoyed checking out the REALLY BIG moving truck.




We are camping out for a while.

Feed me, Mommy!

Zoe seems to like chewing on a rice cereal-flavored spoon. She's done it two nights in a row now. She took to it immediately, with absolutely no drama. She just opens her mouth for a bite every time the spoon comes near her. So unlike her brother's first attempts! We're hoping that once she starts actually ingesting most of it, she will return to sleeping more than 3 hours at a time before waking for a feeding.

This week...

Zoe found her feet:

and Owen taught himself to play Kumbaya on the piano.

When we were in England at Granny and Grandpa's we taught Owen to play Ode to Joy. He loved it, and started experimenting with chords. So Mike taught him a few intervals, like major and minor thirds. And Owen experimented some more. A few days later we were shocked to realize that he wasn't playing random notes... he was playing Kumbaya. He had figured it out by ear. We asked him if he was playing Kumbaya and he just beamed at us. Needless to say, we beamed right back at him.

Greetings from England

Zoe's first 4 months

A picture a month, always in the same chair...

Hard at work

Zoe is working very hard at rolling over. She has gone front-to-back successfully a few times and is really working on back to front.

Her "piggies" and her newfound thumbsucking skills are helping her sleep through the night.

This keeps her generally happy.

Owen, the sweetest big brother in the world, is busy working on numbers - counting backwards from 100, counting by 10's, and addition are his favorite activities these days. So far he's limited in his addition to equations involving two addends, each less than five. So hard to be limited by biology.

Happy Mother's Day!