hope everyone had a happy halloween - zoe most certainly did!

zoe & i normally watch some tv every day. she likes to use her noggin, which is all fine & good, but now i'm stuck with these kiddie tv show songs in my head all of the time.

"bob the builder! can we fix it? bob the builder! yes we can!" or "we just got a letter. we just got a letter. we just got a letter. i wonder who it's from?!" or "hey, hey, are you ready to play? it's time to come and play with the tweenies!"

especially annoying is dora the explorer which has multiple catchy tunes, several of which have the same line over and over. "i'm the map, i'm the map, i'm the map!" or "backpack, backpack, backpack, backpack" or "come on let's get to it, i know that we can do it!" if you've lived through this, you know what i mean.

however, i quite like the tiny planets theme song. you can see & hear it here - scroll down, it's at the bottom - Sing with Bing (and Bong).

someone has another tooth!

i was wrong about miss zoe's tooth. it didn't really come in on the 19th of june - that was just us thinking the bump on her gum was the tooth. it actually broke through on the 28th. i have to keep all this straight because i am a lame mom who hasn't put any of this into her baby book yet.

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miss zoe's first tooth has erupted. she's doing amazingly well - not much fuss at all.

miss zoe went to her first hockey game last night.

she laughed.	she cried.

aeros lost 5-4 in double overtime. boo! oh well, they still lead the series 3-2, so now back to grand rapids for game 6 (and perhaps, game 7).

i've been not updating. i've been not writing and/or answering emails. i use the computer daily, but generally, i read some stuff and that's about it. then later i think about how i should have wrote about this or that, or how i should have answered that email from weeks ago. blah. i don't know what my deal is. part of the reason i set this thing up was because i thought i could find the time & motivation to write short bursts of my babble rather than trying to sit down daily, collect my thoughts and put them into words. i'm not doing that, though.

i also forgot to write an update about miss zoe's 4-month checkup (which was nearly a month ago now as she'll be 5 months old on monday). she was up to 14 pounds, 14 1/2 ounces and 25 1/2 inches tall. of course she's even bigger now. some of the 3-6 months clothing is already getting too small. apparently baby clothing is like adult clothing in that the same size in different brands is not the same size at all. good thing they start 'em out young with that.

miss zoe has discovered that she can roll over from her back to her belly. she rolled for the first time on monday night, but just the one roll. on tuesday, she figured out that she can make this happen, and every time we'd put her on her back ... *boom!* belly time. she is now determined to get to crawling. she rolls over & tries her best to make those arms and legs move her on. it's just not working out that way quite yet, but certainly not from lack of trying. she gets very frustrated, but doesn't give up. she's quite the stubborn girl. (surprise, surprise.)

miss zoe & i went shopping at the garden center with my mom, sarah & ms. lily. we bought some plants & a cute dragonfly whirligig thing.

continue on for pictures.

my girl is two months old today! she's up to 10 pounds, 14 ounces and she's 23 3/4" tall. yay zoe!

yay for rob fixing up the wireless network and making it possible for me to use my computer online again. who knows ... i might actually write a proper entry here soon. until then, hope you're all having a happy new year.

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has arrived! 12/12/02; 1:26am; 7 lbs 1/2 oz; 19 inches long. everybody is doing fine other than being dead tired, so i'll write more later. here's a picture from about 36 hrs after her entrance into the world.

i've been feeling baby move around today for the first time. i guess i've been feeling her on & off for a good part of the day, but i wasn't really sure it was her until tonight. it's an odd feeling, but it's also exciting.

what is this nonsense all about? why did this woman have to go to court to be 'allowed' to do something that she supposedly already has the right to do? i don't know her. i don't know him. i don't know their situation. all i know is that it's her body and it should be her decision. i can only hope that it stays that way. our president and his buddies would i'm sure like to see things change.

i need to go to bed.

random movie quote:

"please. i have a wife and kids. please don't."
"you do? well, you're lucky. you be sweet to 'em - especially your wife. my husband wasn't sweet to me and look how i turned out."

i do have other things to talk about, but i forgot to mention this yesterday and yet i keep thinking about it. on our videotape there are several views similar to this one. every time they show up, i can't help thinking of this.

i'm pretty sure i dreamt about it last night.

they mostly come at night ... mostly.

these are the three that they printed out for us. we also got a video, so if i ever get motivated, i might actually take some scans from that. they seemed quite sure that it's a girl - yikes. all of the stuff that they checked looked fine, so that's good news. i keep forgetting exactly far along i am. all i know for sure is that i'm 19 weeks, something, and i feel like the goodyear blimp is hanging out in my tummy.

again, i have been neglecting the hockey. neglecting to mention it in here, anyway. go red wings! see, i have to root for the wings because every other year in history i have rooted against them just to irk david. now that david is all moved away and i miss him, i feel like i should root for his team. my mom had been pulling for the avs, but after the massacre that was game 7 in the western conference finals, she said "i see red!" and changed her tune. she passed out the other night after the 2nd OT - she couldn't last any longer. my dad likes to make stupid comments about things my mother & i do, just because he's like that. if he walks through while we're watching hockey, one of his favorite things to say is "blood on ice!" where he got that from, i don't know. i thought of him during the third OT, though, when duchesne took that puck in the mouth.

i'm 12 weeks, 1 day now, and my due date is 21 december.

i passed out last night. my body just gave up on me, which is good - i needed to sleep. so, on to the next day. saturday, 4/27. yeah i had my days mixed up, but that's nothing new for me. the big news for saturday, and really the biggest news of the entire past week -