Dance Parties and Birthday Bashes

Last weekend we went to watch a children's Musician from Nashville.  She came to BG and played a free show at the Coffee Shop.  We met Whitney and Ellie there and they had a little dance party.

On Sunday Ellie had her Birthday party with her little buddy Catherine.  Ellie actual birthday is the 25th 4 days before Zoë's!  We had a lot of fun and ate Pomegranate flavored cake, which happened to be the best cake I have ever had.  I gave Zoë a little taste but she did not seem too excited and I didn't really want to share too much any ways.

Zoë supervising the Birthday Girls.

We are getting so close to a year.

Zoë is so much fun to hang out with these days.  She laughs when I talk and when I tell her I am going to "Get You" she laughs turns and crawls as fast as she can.  She points to her toes, belly, mouth, nose, ears, belly button, and eyes when I ask her where they are.  Her Sixth tooth is about to come in, its on the top left.  She seems to only want to practice walking when we are outside.  We have been trying to work with her on it but I do not want to push her to much.  Most of the time when I try and set her down on her feet she will just put them out straight in front of her.

She is still doing great at school and starting in November she will be going Monday thru Thursday 9-2, I am going to miss her so much.  I love that I open her backpack sometimes to find art work that she made.

Last year on this day my parents arrived to help us get ready for Zoë's arrival.  I was just getting very uncomfortable and was wondering if I was going to be able to handle birthing a baby.

Every thing is a phone

I think this may be a bad sign, but everything is a phone for Zoë.  She will put anything even her foot up to her ear and say "Hey" and then pretend pass it to someone else.

Weekend at Lake Cumberland

We  headed to Lake Cumberland on Friday for a nice weekend in the woods.  We rented a 2 bedroom cabin with our friends Hyatt and Olivia who we had not seen in years.  They just moved from Oregon to Cincinnati so we are excited to have old friends near by.  Zoë loved them and there super cute dog Mabel.  She also loved the cabin and was very excited to be outside a lot playing with leaves and rocks which she thinks taste good too.  When ever she wants to go outside and play she always says and waves "Bye-Bye" and points to the door.  We went to Cumberland falls and looked at the waterfall and a double rainbow.  The special thing about Cumberland Falls is that on a full moon and clear night the falls produce a "Moonbow" which is the only one in the western hemisphere.  Then we went to Natural Arch which was so pretty especially with all the leaves changing.  We spent the rest of the afternoon watching Daddy fish in the lake.

Today we drove up to Berea Kentucky which is my favorite city that I have been too in Kentucky.  It is the Artisan Capitol of the state.  The small town is home to Berea Collage which produces a lot of artist and craftsman, it is a free collage the students need to work in the community to help pay their tuition.  We had lunch at a little cafe down town and Zoë per usually said hi to everyone and yells at those who do not look at her.  I gave her my lemon slice from my water and she was so excited she was showing it to everyone around her.  when ever she would put it in her mouth she would just laugh and laugh.  She never really ate any of it and was super sad when she dropped it.  Luckily I had a straw to give her and this was the second best thing in her world.  After lunch we walked around downtown (about 2 blocks) which included a trip into a super cute toys store where I picked up a little birthday present for her.

Then we were off to the Artisan Fair just down the road.  I have been wanting to go to this event since we moved to Kentucky.  We had a lot of fun and saw a lot of really beautiful things.  Derek got a print and I got a new pair of earrings that I am hoping Zoë doesn't pull out of my ears.  Zoë was so good just waving to people and looking around I would forget she was on my back sometimes.  We are going to make plans to go again next year.

The drive home was less fun, we were all tired and my hope that Zoë would sleep on the drive home since we planned it during her normal nap time did not work.  She only took a short nap this morining and sleeping on the drive home would have been to perfect.  She cried most of the way while I tried to invent new fun toys that each on would only buy us about 30 minutes.  Her favorite was a gallon jug with just a little water left in it.  Once we finally got home she was so happy.  It was a good weekend!