Last installment from Zoey's 2nd Birthday

OK, grandpa Don and Judy took tons of pictures but I'm assuming they sent the best ones first. This is Zoey at the campground at Lake Casitas showing off her skills.


Here's me driving the boat back to the marina in Santa Barbara after whale watching...I got really queasy and it was hard to tell if it was because of the boat or the movement in my belly.

I think I speak for all when I say that the score is whales 2, humans 0...we didn't see any whales this time either but saw a pod of Pacific White-Sided Dolphins and a ton of seals. Zoey didn't see anything because she (mercifully) fell asleep.


Love those giraffes!


C'mon folks! She SOOOOOO looks like Momma! This is Zoey on the train at the Santa Barbara Zoo...trains are the newest obsession thanks to Charlie and his parents.

Baby Brother

Here's some of the latest pictures of him. We've decided to name him Milo Vincent. We have a month (give or take) before his debut.

The Big 2.0!

Yes, she did build them herself...I just handed her the blocks and told her where to put them...sort of a general contractor/laborer relationship I guess.


OK, lemme put on my painting face.

Wow, looking back on some of my old posts I got a little nostalgic....also had to really laugh at myself. One post I boasted that she was "officially weaned". Yeah, right! Still requesting "mummuz" a few times a day and every time I agree (how could I refuse anyway?) I'm wondering how, logistically, I'm going to nurse a toddler and a newborn without her crushing him, him kicking her and both of them draining me of all life! We'll see. Adapt or die, right? On the bright side, just think of all those calories I get to guiltlessly eat to feed the three of us!

Bottom picture, that's a frosting mustache. Balloon bouquet from Unkie Kev and Auntie Tootz! Luv'd it! And a cool presents from Ever and her Mom. Outfit (and more goodies) from Sally & Sean...and to my surprise, it stayed white even after a day at the zoo. Pictures from that (and whale watching) are on Grandpa Don's camera so I'll post those later.

She actually looks older to me.

Blowing out 2 candles. Still need some practice on this.

Easter photos

And just to be fair...I ran Vince's too.

More fun stuff

Just what you've always wanted to know. What celebrity does Lisa look like? I saw this on Allison's blog and had to play around...I'll take those matches any day...if I had the guts to take a photo of myself at 6AM and try this fun little game the results would be crushing albeit humorous and probably more realistic!

OK, it's finally settled...but I don't necessarily agree!

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22 Months Old

I know, I'm pretty late with this post. She'll be practically 23 months old by the time I get this published so depending on how many worthwhile pics I get between now and February 9th this may be a dual post...what a slacker I am. But, in my defense, Zoey and I went to Orlando to visit Grandma Cheryl, Ken, Uncle Kevin and Aunt Kristin. I don't have any photos from that trip as of yet. Kevin is supposed to make me a CD and I didn't take along a camera because it was just one more thing to keep track of... But I'll make it up with some VLog.

We went skiing...here's a quick video of two runs of that. We only took about 7 runs down the bunny hill but I'm certain that if we had a week in Aspen she'd be blazing her own path down at least a blue run. After only 2 runs I could almost let go.

We just took this video tonight. Please excuse the piano accompanist (aka Mom). This was taped on the 3rd time through this Nocturne and I laughed so hard each time I almost peed my pants...plus it was really hard to concentrate with Zoey's singing...almost sounds German, which is appropriate for Chopin (or was he French? I can't remember.).

And one last photo...a tribute to Lidia. Zoey adores her (so do I). She's teaching Zoey Spanish and giving me a break a couple times a week.

2nd Christmas

Well, actually, this is her first Christmas since last year we took advantage of the fact that she wouldn't have a clue so we could take one more year "off" from THE most commercial Holiday. Still, she didn't quite understand the idea of Santa and opening presents...but now that the toys are revealed she's having quite a morning playing with all the new stuff. Good luck trying to get her to take a nap today, huh?

Crown (and then some!) compliments of Grandpa Don & Judy (Thank you!)...chocolate by Santa.

Pre chaos...

Cool easel from Aunt Sally & Uncle Sean...and a scooter from Santa!

More stuff from Santa

All the goods! And a stocking full of chocolate!

This was taken before we left for Aunt Darlene & Uncle Jerry's for Sunday pre-Christmas Brunch...I love the outfit! And I know I promised in a previous post that I'd post more pictures of the little-one-in-progress...but if you aren't used to looking at ultrasounds they can look a little creepy so I'll wait until we have a photo that requires a little less imagination.

Zoey the Astronomer

OK, so we aren't calling Mensa yet. And this isn't as amazing as that little 2 year old who can point out hundreds of countries (some I've never heard of) on a map but I think this is really cute...especially since she won't reliably count to ten unless Elmo tells her to and she doesn't know all her letters yet. Performance note: She stubs her toe on the desk in the middle of the recitation but eventually finishes once she regains her composure. LOL