Zoe Liremet at 10 Months

Our sweet girl is now a big 10-month old!  She’s at such a fun age – funny, feisty, curious, chubby, wiggly, and snuggly.  I know that I’ve said this in every single monthly update, but we cannot believe how well she is doing.  It’s hard to believe that we’ve only been a family for four [...]

Little Chickadee

It could be considered cruel what we parents do to our wee ones come Halloween time…but how can we be expected to resist when they look this darn cute.

Zoe’s Big Adventure

We just returned from our first plane trip with Miss Z.  I had to go to the Seattle/Tacoma area for a conference and since Matt’s sister lives there he and Z decided to tag along.  It was a wonderful weekend to be in the Northwest because in spite of its dreary reputation there was nothing [...]

Zoe Liremet at Nine Months

Hard to believe that we’ve been home for almost three months now.  The sweet, tiny, quiet baby that we first met in Addis Ababa is now chubby, happy and oh so loud (but still very, very sweet).  It’s been a month of big changes for our little family, as Zoe gets used to spending her [...]

Catching My Breath

Wow, it’s been a crazy few weeks. My return to work (at one of the busiest times of the whole entire year), a long weekend away (packing when a baby is involved is not easy), colds for the entire family, an ear infection (complete with ruptured ear drum) for poor ZL, and then on [...]

On the Mend

I’m sure everyone has been anxiously awaiting an update on Dolly’s condition.  I’m happy to report that she seems to be doing much better these days.  After our visit with the vet, we kept her on the doggy version of prozac for a couple weeks before deciding it wasn’t necessary anymore.  At her worst the [...]

Family Photos

While Matt has taken lots (and lots and lots) of wonderful photos of ZL since we have been home, it is quite difficult to take family self-portraits and so we have no pictures of all three of us together.  So we asked our friends Matt and Heidi of Freedom Photography to do a family photo [...]

Zoe’s Weekend

Just thought I’d share a few pictures from Zoe’s weekend.  It was gorgeous here.  80 degrees in sunny.  In the Midwest.  In the middle of August.  Unheard of.
Z fell asleep while we were getting ready for the Farmer’s Market on Saturday morning.  We missed out on the fresh peaches, but who cares.  Just look at [...]

Zoe Liremet at 8 Months

Our girl turned 8 months old this week.  I could spend a few sentences telling you hard that is to believe and how fast she’s growing up, but that’s what everybody says about their kids, so I won’t.  But just in case you were wondering — it is hard to believe and they do grow [...]

Yet another photo shoot…

We were heading out to dinner on Friday and I thought that Zoe looked so cute that I asked Matt to do an impromptu photo shoot before we left.  I love how these turned out – great light, beautiful colors and a sweet baby.  I think they really capture ZL’s personality and I especially love [...]