Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Oh Noooooooo

I know I have not posted in a while...but this video was too funny to wait. It will hopefully make you smile.

Friday, May 21, 2010

Sleeping Beauty!

One of my favorite things to do everynight before I go to bed, is to peak into Zoe's room and look at how she sleeps. She is so calm, so peaceful...so hilarious.


Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Palm Springs

The last week of March we went on a weekend trip down to palm springs. We flew down on a private plane out of Byron directly to Palm Springs. We flew down with Bill, Linda, Erin and Emma and the Ben, Carolyn and Kiera joined us on Saturday to hang out by the pool. During the weekend Lauren's aunt Eileen and Loraine dropped by and brought over the best strawberries from a local farmer's market. Here are some of the pics from the weekend of fun and relaxation.

Palm Springs Photos


Pool Time


Glamour Shot


Bill and Lauren


Hollywood


Zoe and her Yaya


Easter Egg Hunt



"Sharing"















Our Plane


So we meet again, Mr. Duck.

Friday, February 26, 2010

Presidents Day Weekend - Pics











Sledding Video

Telly Tubby











Lets just say that Zoe was a little bit tenuous when it came to touching the snow. Maybe it was becuase her mom dressed her as telly tubby. But she sure did have a good time sledding.

Presidents Day Weekend


For Presidents Day weekend we made a trip up to Tahoe with my folks and uncle Jeff. It was Zoe's first trip to the snow and a great weekend all around the encompased my birthday and valentines day. Lauren and I got a chance to go skiing at Heavenly for our first ski trip together. Can you believe that we had never gone skiing together in 10 years. Lauren was unbelievable on the slopes and was a great private instructor.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Zoe's Vocabulary at 18 Months

At 18 months, our little Zoe is quite the chatterbox. It has been incredible to be able to communicate back and forth with her, and now she's combining two or three words in to sentences. I (Lauren) think it's really interesting to see what words she happens to pick up on and say... I never would have guessed that some of these would be in her first one hundred words. I'm sure I'm forgetting some and the list grows every day, but here is a sampling:
  1. ba-ba (bottle)
  2. come!
  3. no!
  4. yes
  5. apple
  6. nana (banana)
  7. pear
  8. berry
  9. baby
  10. push (to push a button)
  11. up
  12. down
  13. done
  14. humrey (hungry)
  15. nose
  16. eye
  17. hair
  18. ear
  19. sock
  20. shoe
  21. wa-wa (water)
  22. "one, two, three!"
  23. "A, B, C"
  24. cold
  25. hot
  26. more
  27. off
  28. light
  29. night-night (also means her blankie)
  30. moon
  31. cow
  32. uh-oh
  33. whoa!
  34. keys
  35. leash
  36. hands
  37. play
  38. poo poo
  39. pee pee
  40. potty
  41. car
  42. out
  43. walk
  44. this
  45. yay!
  46. blocks
  47. more
  48. bye-bye
  49. hi/hello (she also calls phones "hello's")
  50. cracker
  51. cheese
  52. purse
  53. house
  54. "bully" (her bull dog stuffed animal)
  55. coat
  56. pasta
  57. door
  58. tree
  59. row (from "row, row, row your boat")
  60. dog
  61. cookie
  62. treat (for Maggie)
  63. juice
  64. brush
  65. teeth
  66. toast
  67. pasta
  68. wash
  69. please!
  70. Amen!

Combined Words:

  1. Bath time?
  2. Mama, all done!
  3. Oh, no!
  4. Good girl! (to Maggie)
  5. Come Mags (or dada, mama, mimi etc.)
  6. Bye-bye dada (or mama, mags, etc.)
  7. Baby Humry! Humry Mags? (tells us when she thinks someone's hungry)
  8. No, Mags!
  9. Love you!
  10. Thank you!
  11. Get up Jeff! (to wake up Uncle Jeff when she sleeps at nana and papa allen's house)

Names:

  1. Mags (maggie)
  2. Da-da (daddy)
  3. Mama (mommy)
  4. Nana (grandma allen)
  5. Mimi (grandma ricinak)
  6. Yaya (grandma klipp)
  7. Papa (all of her grandpas)
  8. Bay (Bailey)
  9. Pen (her friend Penny)
  10. Lynn (her babysitter)
  11. Jeff (uncle Jeff)
  12. "B" (uncle Brian)

Animal Sounds:

  1. Sheep
  2. Cow
  3. Dog
  4. Cat
  5. Bee
  6. Horse
  7. Elephant
  8. Monkey
  9. Duck

Zoe

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Park Day - Geese

Check out the expression on her face when she gets right up next to them!

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Christmas

Here are some vidoes from our new flip camera from Christmas Eve and Christmas morning.



Zoe tries to escape church.

2010...

2010 and I guess we are bloggers now. Maybe 2009 was not that eventful for us. No new babies, careers, homes, cars, pets or graduations. So maybe this is our Allen family calm before the storm. I hope that everyone will enjoy trying to keep up with us for 2010...