Baby Zoey

Exhausted

Overwhelmed.

Surrounded by diapers bottles and pacifiers.

and

(most importantly)

blissfully happy being a extremely busy mom to two beautiful, incredible, amazing babies.

So what I'm really trying to do is make excuses as to why Zoey is ONE MONTH old and this post is way overdue. Hopefully I can catch everyone up on our sweet little girl.

First of all Zoey is the sweetest baby girl I have ever met. We had her for two days before we even heard her cry! Unfortunately this was quite content baby was not to last. Over the past four weeks she has become quite a bit more opinionated and is now sharing these opinions with the world more freely. I'm pretty sure that her main complaint has been that we starve her... while entirely untrue, she definitely seems to believe it. In fact she has successfully convinced several grandparents that she has not eaten in a week. Very convincing.
Now this brings us to two very distinct attributes of Zoey's: One being that she is an incredibly good sleeper! From day one she was went 4-5 hours between feedings. By one week she selpt EIGHT hours at night!! When you contrast this with our little Max... let's just say he was (and to be honest, still is) A LOT more demanding than our little girl. Trust me, we know what a blessing this is! I'm not sure how we would've handled two "Maxes" at the same time!
Secondly, Zoey LOVES to eat... correction: she loves to have you hold a bottle in her mouth. She has become a finicky eater. For the first week or two she would suck down anything and everything you gave her in a matter of minutes with no regard to how full her tiny tummy was. Then she decided that while she would still eat for everyone else in the world, she would simply pretend to eat when her Aunt Noelle was feeding her. This then extended to the rest of the world, which made feeding her fairly frustrating and extremely time consuming. At the moment it all depends on her mood. She will normally eat what you give her and demand more... but she still like to pretend eat every once in awhile... which we all really enjoy. :)
Zoey enjoys arching her back so that her head nearly touches her bottom. This is quite impressive.
She learned to smile at the astonishingly young age of 3 weeks. They were rare and fleeting but they are becoming more and more common. They are genuine open mouthed smiles. Trust me... you can tell they're real, and they're beautiful.
Zoey has a little white nub of a tooth on the top left side of her mouth. She's pretty young to have a tooth... but we think that this, along with her smiles, is just a manifestation of the sibling rivalry to come. Apparently she isn't going to let 7 measly weeks hold her back :)
She is incredibly good at repurposing her headband bows and flowers as blindfolds and eye patches. What she doesn't know is what an important role these play in hiding her rapidly growing bald spot...

Anyway, this is just a little bit about baby Zoey. She is adorable, quirky, and a maybe little crazy sometimes... but we just LOVE her!

Here are some pictures of our angel!

Since this post has taken me FOREVER to post... there are now about a million more pictures of her that need to be shared with the world.

I'm going to work on that.

But for now enjoy our beautiful baby girl!