Last night Barack Obama was elected President!!!

We kept Zoe awake until the announcement and had a small family celebration. Were Kia not pregnant, we would have popped some champagne. He took Virginia, which made me proud. Virginia hadn't voted for a Democrat since 1964!

Halloween was last week, we took Zoe out around the block. She had a great time. She was dressed as a pink monster (pictures are forthcoming). She loved candy. She likes to savor her candy. For example, we gave her a lollipop and it took her over an hour to finish it. She'd just like to walk around with it and ocassionally lick it.

We weighed her, she is 27lbs!

Yesterday, Kia took her out to "ride" her big wheel. Normally this means us pushing her around in it... but this time she figured out how to ride it herself. She was able to peddle and everything! She was so proud of herself.

Zoe has been experiencing some "growing pains" of late. She seems to constantly be getting injured!
- a few weeks ago, she and I were walking Lucky, like we always do, and as we were heading home, she decided to jog. She tripped, fell on her face and split her lip.
- In another incident, she was riding her "car" and fell backwards, hitting her head on the ground. Ouch!
- And just the other day, she got her fingers caught in the door leading into our garage. Very painful. I would have cried had that happened to me!

Zoe can now walk up and down the stairs completely on her own without holding the walls or anything. We still monitor her when she goes up/down, but she can do it.

She likes to talk to the baby. She'll say, "come out of mommy's tummy baby". And she'll tell the baby "I love you".

Speaking of the baby, we have a new sonogram picture. I'll post it asap. It is very active in there. In fact last night it was unusually active in anticipation of Barack being elected president.

Zoe loves to read books. She is now at the point where she'll read by herself. She makes the words up as she goes... they usually start off with "once upon a time..."

More to come... including pictures.