so how is Zoe, anyway? March 13, 2008

Zoe’s doing well, she’s made the transition to the toddler room, and while she still has some hesitation in the mornings, it’s getting better and she’s always in a grand mood when we pick her up.

She still doesn’t say much, but she understands a ton. I’ve been experimenting with telling her to do things and seeing if she’ll do them without me pointing or demonstrating what I want. Things like “please pick up the chicken you threw off the table and throw it away.” (which she did).

She throws her food off the table when she’s bored. We haven’t figured out a good response yet.

She also likes throwing things away. She gets upset when we throw things away instead of having her do it.

She just started sleeping through the night.  I shudder at writing this because I fear jinxing it, but I think we’re finally there, and quite a bit better rested.

Her eyes are still a bit crossed even with the glasses. Her next eye appointment isn’t until June, but we may try to get her in earlier if they don’t change.

Somehow we forgot Zoe’s 17 month birthday and didn’t get a rock hammer for scale picture. We’ll get one tomorrow or this weekend. We’re such bad parents. Maybe this is a sign that after 18 months we should scale back to a little less frequent pictures.

at what cost sleep? also, pirate-baby November 15, 2007

Zoe hasn’t really been much of a sleep-through-the-night baby. Recently, she’s been sleeping good 6-8 hour stretches, but when bedtime is 7 pm, that still means waking up in the middle of the night. Luckily, it usually only takes a short nursing session, and then she’ll curl up in her crib with her blanket and go back to sleep on her own. So maybe not ideal, but really not too bad. But last night and the night before, she slept from 7 pm - 6 am straight through. Which would be awesome, except that she was sent home from daycare yesterday afternoon with a 103 temperature. I’m home with her today, and she seems fine, but I’m worried that the awesome nights of sleep were only because of being sick. We’ll find out soon enough if this is a more permanent trend.

In other news, we contacted Zoe’s eye doctor again because her eyes seem to have gotten more crossed again. She was checked out at 9 months and we were told to just wait and watch, and her eyes seemed to get better, and then not so much. We sent some pictures to the ophthalmologist who just called today to say that she wants us to try patching Zoe’s left eye for 2-4 hours per day, and then come in 2 weeks for a check up. I was told that putting the patch on her eye is not as easy as it sounds. This concerns me - it never sounded particularly easy to begin with.  Chris on the other hand, is concerned that Zoe will next want a hook for a hand and a peg-leg, and then next thing you know she’ll start demanding a parrot. Or maybe she just wants to be like her big sister-in-blog (who was perhaps the awesomest pirate ever for Halloween)