Precious Moment

This morning Zoë crawled into bed with me (Abbie) and Eliza. Zoë leaned her head on Eliza and said, "Eliza... my best friend ever!" *tear in my eye!* I hope this love stays forever! :-)

Oh, The Things She Says!

Here is what Zoë says:

~"Mommy, you have your ear carrots in?" (I had my ear plugs in,LOL)

~ When something is really good Zoë will say, "Delicious!" or "Tasty!"

~"Guess what??? ..... I LOVE YOU!!!" (She says this all the time, in a whisper at first and then loudly)

~"See you later, I will miss you!" (Says this whenever she is leaving the room, or leaving the

house.)

~She will say, "Just a minute!" or "Wait a second!" She says this with the hand gestures to wait. :-)

*We are working on, "May I have....please?" she does VERY well with this and uses it to ask for things, she often gets confused though when she wants you to do something for her. Instead of saying, "Will you" she says, "may I" it makes for some funny sentences when she is trying to ask you for something.

*She is memorizing Ephesians 4:32 a little at a time. I say the reference and Zoë says, "Be kind..." we will add a little more each week. :-)

Fun

Fourth of July with Daddy! Zoë was afraid of the fireworks so she wore her ear protectors.
Eliza a few days old looking at her Daddy.
Very newborn Eliza with Daddy and big sis. :-)

Z and E

Zoë always asks to hold Eliza. :-) She finally got to.

Eliza, looking content.

What She Says

Here are a few things Zoë has said lately:

~While catching a glimpse of Wipeout she over heard something and then said it over and over again, "Shake it, don't break it! Shake it don't break it! Shake it don't break it!" Paul and I couldn't stop laughing.

~While playing Candyland Zoë and I review her colors all the time. Sometimes I add to it what a color is of in the real world so when Zoë chose green I said, "Oh, yes! That is green like the grass is green." On the following plays Zoë would choose a card and then say, "Oh, mommy, it is purple like the grass!" On the next draw, "Oh, mommy! It is orange like the grass!" I think I am going to have to keep reviewing what color the grass really is, LOL.

~Paul was putting together a chair and Zoë was playing with some cardboard pieces and I asked her what she was playing and she said, "Build a word!! Let's build a word!" She started dancing around like it was going to form something. If you watch Word World you will know what she was talking about! LOL

~When asked about her hurt lip Zoë will say, "I got 'itches'!" (she means stitches)LOL

This is Eliza Joy! :-)

Some pics

Zoë and her daddy :-)
Our little peanut.

Tennis anyone? :-)

Eliza Joy is Here!

OK, so another big thing that happened of course was that we had Eliza Joy! :-) Yay! She was a planned c-section for Monday the 27th of June. She arrived that morning at 11:55 a.m. at 8#'s 4oz and 21.5 inches long. :-) We are very glad that we decided to go with a c-section as we found out that Eliza had a prolapsed umbilical cord and would have had an emergency C-section anyway.

A cut lip

Well, a lot has happened in the past few weeks. I thought I would start by telling you about Zoë's lip. We were leaving my last OB appointment on June 22nd when Zoë tripped exiting the doctor's office. :-( Poor peanut slammed face first into the metal door, splitting her lip wide open. We had to then go from one doctor to another as we rushed her to the ER to get stitches. We think in all she ended up with 5 or 6 stitches on her lip. It was NOT a fun experience. The doctors were great, I however could not stay in the room while they stitched her up. Paul had to be the one to comfort Zoë, while I stayed in a little room and waited until everything was done. When everything was done Zoë kept saying, "Wasn't so bad, mommy" , " It will heal", and "Doctor's help Mommy", "Got stitches". She says these things while bobbing her head up and down with a concerned look on her face.