long time no see....

Hello to all of Zooey's fans

and so sorry for the long absence from this blog.

Life with Zooey has been super busy - it feels like in the past month, 

all of a sudden, she is no longer a baby but a little girl, or in

daddy's words "it's like she's a real person now!"

Some updates:

*She is now running around. Her balance is still a little shaky,

which leads to many falls, but luckily she rarely cries

*She loves to dance, stomping her feet and tilting her head to the side

*She loves to climb on top of everything and crawl
into the tiniest of spaces
*She loves playing peek-a-boo
*She gives great hugs and kisses (usually juicy, open-mouthed ones!)
*She loves being outside and smelling all the flowers, pulling grass out
*BUBBLES! 

*She is very strong and tries to lift heavy objects, eg. she 

dragged at 15lb bag of rice around the kitchen (she is 23lb)

*She LOVES dogs

*She is still nursing but also eats pretty well, 

liking a variety of food including mediterranean, 

mexican, korean, even spicy food.
*She will put her dirty diapers in the diaper can, her laundry
in the laundry basket

*She is very social, saying hi to everyone, especially little kids

*She is VERY vocal, loves to sing and talk. 

VOCABULARY (words she will say)

Zooey = "Zoe"

Joann = "Joe"

Daddy = "dada"

Mommy = "dada" 

(occasionally she throws me a bone and says "umma" )

emo = "eee-mo"
elmo = "ay-mo"
book = "boo"
ball = "bah"

bubbles = "bubboo"

apple = "appoo"

banana = "nana"

car = "cah"

dog = "gog"

violin = "ninee"

do (as in 'do-re-mi') = "doh"
(when you sing "do" on a given pitch, she will reply by 
singing "doh", on a different pitch)

hi = "hi"

hello = "hello"

bye-bye = "ba-bye"

baby = "bebee"

more = "moh"
what's this? = "wassis?"

no = "NO" or "nnnnnnno" depending on her mood

yes = "yesh", sometimes "doh"

'da-wat-da' (we're here!) = "dah-da"

'da-haet-da' (all done!) = "dahh-da" (there IS a difference)

'gah-ja' (let's go!) = "gah-ja"

I'm sure there are more I can't think of right now.  

She is also signing some words and understands quite a bit, 

so it is a lot of fun having 'conversations' with her.

more pics/videos tomorrow!