2 months until Feb 14

Yes I said it, Zoë will be 1 year old in 2 months. It has been a while since we posted. Everything has gone by soooo fast. Where has the time gone. I didnt realize it had been so long since we posted an update, sorry.

Zoë has been doing really well. All of us caught a cold the entire month of November and we are all finally better. She has been off all machines for about a month and a half. She misses the wires because anytime she gets near drawstrings, wires, necklaces, she goes right too them and chews on them. She is about 13 lbs now, so she is still small. But she acts like a 9-10 months old. We have kept the same 24 calorie diet, but she now eat baby food and oatmeal cereal. She loves it. Except she does not like peas. She was making faces and was gagging herself. She has tried: Pears, oatmeal, oatmeal with applesauce, green beans, carrots (her fav). For Thanksgiving she loved the taste of pumpkin pie, she only had a tiny taste. Zoë also learned to hold her own bottle. She started doing this about 2 weeks ago. She still gets constipated once in a while but we take care of it faster now, so it doesn't last as long and she isn't as uncomfortable

She acts so mature for her size. Right now she is able to sit by herself. We actually put her in highchairs at restaurants. The big thing right now is that she started to crawl(scoot), the week of Thanksgiving. Everyday since then, she has gotten faster. She is doing the sniper crawl and she is fast. She looks so cute because she is so small. So since she is crawling, she now loves to be on her tummy. She used to hate it soo much, but once she learned how to keep her head up, she started to love it. She is still sleeping in her playpen in our room and in the morning, she flips herself to her tummy, lifts her little head and peaks over the edge to see if we are awake. If she wants to play she turns herself over and plays. If she wants us to get her, she grunts until we wake up. She is a good sleeper through the night. She goes to bed by 10p and wakes up abound 7a.

She also knows her name. When we call her by name, she turns. She definietly knows who her mama is and has started to want to go to her daddy this week. Zoë recognizes people, cartoons, the beep from the door in the house when it opens, toys, etc. She loves Hello Kitty. She already has 4 of them. One she stole from cousin Bryna.

She also got her ears pierced about 3 weeks ago. Daddy did not go because he couldn't take it. So we went one day after work and didn't tell him what we were doing. He found out when he came home from work. He got over the shock in a couple of minutes. Her top tooth also broke through this weekend, we noticed because she was grinding her teeth.

She finally made it to her first ASU game. It was the game on Halloween. She had fun seeing all the people. She also made it to the last home game. Unfortunately we lost :(, but Zoë looked cute in her different ASU outfits. Zoë was a honey bear for Halloween, she had fun trick-o-treating. She would kick and giggle as we went to the next house.

In the last 3 weeks Zoë has progressed so much. Everyday she does something new or is perfecting something she is already doing. We also went from seeing doctors every week to every 2-3 months. Zoë is such a sweet little girl. She is very sociable and a very happy baby. She cries when she is hungry, dirty or sleepy. She also has the cutest laugh. We can laugh for hours, especially while playing peek-a-boo. As I am writing, she is crawling towards me and smiling. She is just the cutest :). Im trying to teach her to say "Mama" but she just stares at me. However she is starting to wave hello/goodbye. She puts her little hand in the air and moves her fingers around.

Well only 11 days until Christmas and we will be going to the happiest place on earth to celebrate. She is going to love the lights and characters. Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas.