Knock on wood

Having been bestowed with the "Yurpiest Baby on the Planet" award for the past 5 months running, it is with great surprise (and relief!) that we can report that it seems that our Zo-suvius has usurped her yurpy title. That's all fancy talk to just say that over the past couple of days, perhaps week or so, we've noticed a drastic decrease in the volume of yurp Zoe has been producing. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! (Thus the 'knock on wood' title for this posting.)

Zoe has been an absolute champ over the past few evenings when plans with friends made her a girl about town. Friday was a relatively very unproductive day for us gals, what with erratic napping on Zoe's part, but it seems it was all according to her master plan to be perfectly behaved during our hour-plus meal of *excellent* Chinese food that evening (we highly recommend Chiang's up on 80th & Lake City Way!). She was notably mellow and happy to take it all in and treated us with a dessert of sweet chatter before we departed. Saturday, after some errand running, we went in for round number two, meeting up with friends at Tutta Bella's in Wallingford (choice cuisine for the child-bearing set: there were all of 8 tables at this HUGE place without kids! Oh, and the 'za was yummy, too). Again, Zoe was a champ and let us dine without distraction (aside from her good kind), wowing the group with her sweet smiles and great disposition. It was obvious she was tired, but she opted for the snuggle over the scream. Thanks, Bug, we owe you a million :)



One of our Saturday errands was to pick up a Johnny Jump-up (or rather, Janie Jump-up) for our little jumper. She simply loved it. It's right up her alley right now - whenever she's just hanging in your arms or on your lap lately, she makes as though to bounce which in turn makes your body TIRED. With the jumper, she can bounce, swing and dance to her heart's delight. SO fun. Now when we pick her up or put her on her feet it's ALL about the bounce. We may have created a monster with this, but man, she's a cute monster! You thought she was smiley and cunning before?



In other Zoe news, she spent some time this morning wowing us with her ability to mostly sit on her own. Just days ago she was pretty good, but toppling quite easily. (see below)



Now, not only is she more steady on her bum, she can pretty well recover herself from a deep bend over to get at a toy. That, and she can just about get herself sitting upright as long as she has a bit of an incline to help her get started. My guess is that in a matter of days, she'll be quite adept at doing it all by herself. And next she'll discover her knees will get her places...Watch out kitties!!!

(And look! No bib!)