Zoe is 19 months

Behind again, what can I say. On March 3rd Zoe turned 19 months old. What is she doing these days? She is totally 100% in love with Elmo. We have to watch Elmo dvd's at least 2-3 times a day, she has an Elmo doll and now Elmo stickers. She runs around babbling "I need Elmo", I'm not going to lie, I think it is pretty darn cute. I know there will come a time when I am tired of Elmo but again, right now, it is so cute.

Construction has begun on our house repairing all of the water damage, finally. We went to visit Bryan's parents this weekend and left Zoe with them until Thursday. I am missing my baby something awful already. It just doesn't seem right without her in the house but we wanted to keep her away from dust, fumes and anything potentially dangerous that comes with the repairs to the house.

Let's see, what else is going on in the Lockette household. Zoe is starting swimming lessons on April 17th at the YMCA. This class is a parent/tot class so Bryan and I are super excited this is something we can do with Zoe.

We are going to New Orleans in a few weeks for my sister's birthday. This should be a fun and interesting trip. I haven't been to New Orleans in about 7 years.

I am searching for Easter dresses for Zoe and myself right now. So far I haven't had much luck but I hope to have this done soon. We will be going back to Bryan's parents house for Easter.

That about wraps it up in a nutshell what has been going on with us and what will be going on with us in the near future. I am finally going to post some new pictures of Zoe, they are some 19 month pictures.

Bye yall!!

I'm behind

Valentines Day has come and gone and guess what, I still haven't downloaded Zoe's pictures.

I have a good reason. Many of you don't know what has been going on. I got home last Thursday from the Dr, opened the garage door and our freaking ceiling was coming down, what is going on I thought. Then I noticed the garage floor was flooded. I walked inside and the carpet/laundry rooms were flooded, nice. I walked upstairs look in Zoe's room, praying that her room wasn't damaged, I didn't notice anything...YET. I walked in the guest bathroom and it was flooded. At first I thought our toilet had literally exploded. The toilet paper on the holder was soaked, the toilet paper in a basket on the back of the toilet was soaked, there was about an inch of water in Zoe's potty which sits beside the toilet. I spent the next 2 hours cleaning up water all the while thinking it was our toilet. Nope, we noticed around the fan in the bathroom that the ceiling was brown, we took the fan cover off a what dumped out. It turns out our neighbor had her hot water heater replaced and the plumber moved the washer and didn't hook the hose back properly to the washer. About 45 minutes after I spent an hour cleaning up water, I noticed brown stains on Zoe's ceiling and in our hallway...argh!! What a mess. The plumber will be paying for the repairs and we got the estimate yesterday, ready for this, $3,188.00 in repairs plus we are going to have to stay at a hotel for 2 days so add that cost to the total....goodness, these next 2 weeks are going to be a nightmare. This is now going to make us 1-2 weeks later listing our home than we wanted. Oh well, things happen, and the good news is Zoe's dresser hasn't fallen through the ceiling, I thought it might for a bit and no one was hurt.

I hope everyone has a fabulous weekend. We are off to Birmingham Alabama this weekend to see some of our favorite people, The Thompson's....I can't wait.

What's Happened

I am scratching my head, trying to figure out what happened to all my commenters? Is it because I don't post as much anymore? Have you all forgotten about me? Come on Mommies, I need some serious help here. I miss you all, come back!!

Picky Eater

I have noticed lately that Zoe is losing weight rather than gaining weight. The kid won't eat any vegtables or meat. She will sometimes eat chicken nuggets but I stress the word "sometimes". I can't really feed her macoroni and cheese every night can I? I have been stressing over her eating habits for some time now and I am just simply out of ideas. The girl will eat spaghetti, mac-n-cheese and breakfast. I reverted back to baby food for a while so that we could at least get her to eat some green beans, carrots, etc. I have tried puraying these vegtables and she will not eat them but the baby food she will eat. Her PED requested that we no longer give her baby food, so what is a Mom to do? She is already so little for her age and she just won't eat anything good for her. She is just a picky eater. I was a picky eater to but surely I would eat more than she does, right??? I am just worried.
Any suggestions?

I heart

I heart everyday that I get to spend it with a certain little girl

I heart Ibuprofen, sorry just had my wisdom teeth out and the pain medication that the Dr. prescribed me makes me sick.

I heart my sweet hubby

I heart watching Zoe splash and "drink" the water at bath time

I heart Johnson and Johnson's Lavender baby lotion. Love that smell after bath time

I heart food, solid food at that. I can't wait until I can eat solid food again.

I heart that spring is right around the corner.

I heart that we may get snow this weekend....woo hoo.

I heart my hubby's fabulous cooking

I heart my sweet hubby's hugs.

I heart that I have such wonderful family

I heart all you crafty people out there, I so inspire to be you.

I heart all the talented photographers out there, again, I inspire to be good at photography one day.

I heart blogging, seriously, I'm addicted....facebook/twitter....what is that, I spend all my time trying to catch up on everyone's blog. Guess that means that I might be following too many blogs!!

It's GO time

Tomorrow morning at 10:15, I will be having 3 of my wisdom teeth pulled/cut out. I will be on a blog break for a while. Wish me luck.

My baby is 18 months old today....tears, sniff.

Don't get me wrong they are tears of joy. Zoe is 18 months old today and I am stuck at work while she is at daycare, truly sucks. I wish I could have afforded to take today off and just spend it with her. I want to hold her forever and never, ever let her go.
I want her to be able to read back through my post once she gets older. I want to just tell her a few things today.

My Dearest and Most Precious Zoe,

You were put here on earth to make me whole, mission complete kiddo. I never, ever thought that it was possible to love someone as much as I love you. My heart just aches with the amount of love I have for you. You are truly beautiful inside and out. I am having so much fun watching you learn and explore. You crack me up everyday with your "fake" laugh. You are extremely ticklish just like your Mommy. I love counting your little ribs, you just laugh and laugh. I love to hear the sound of your laughter, it warms my heart. I hope you realize that laughter will keep you young and it is a very important part of your everyday life so make sure to always laugh. It is the best medicine in the world. Some things I have noticed I will list now.

-You love to hang upside down, not sure if I should be worried or not. You may just possibly give your mama a heart attack doing this.

- You absolutely love shoes. You could spend hours playing with mama and daddy's shoes. You love to try and put them on your own feet or on our feet. Once you get them on your feet, you love to walk in them. Note to self, keep heels out of your reach for now!

-You love socks too and love putting them on and taking them off.

-You love to play with your toes. You are amazed by your toes for some reason.

-You love your baby dolls. When you wake up in the morning, you ask for Baby, Annie and Lilly (your dolls of choice right now). When you go to bed all 3 dolls must be present for our night night ritual to take place.

-You have mastered wiping with toilet paper, flushing the toilet and closing the toilet lid. You still however have not gone tee tee or poo poo in the potty. We are waiting patiently for you to learn this. You love to drag the potty with you wherever you go even though the potty is the size of you, it cracks me up.

-You love to brush your teeth, this is a good thing. You cry when I take the toothbrush from you. Hopefully you will have much healthier teeth than your mommy.

- You are a pretty good sleeper. You can go for weeks and sleep through the night but then you go through stages, like the present time, where you "play" in your crib with your baby dolls, whine for mama or daddy and eventually go back to sleep. It wakes your mama and daddy up but we absolutely love to listen to you playing with your baby dolls.

- You are still pretty little. Your stats at your 18 month checkup were:
23lbs - 25th - 50th percentile
31.5 in long - 25th-50th percentile
46.5 head circumference - 50th percentile

-You are trying to run everywhere right now and climb on anything you can find to climb on. Seriously kid, your killing me....ha ha....love you.

-You are such a happy baby. You will go to anyone and everyone.

-You are our little social butterfly. Daycare raves about how independent you are and how all the kids love to be around you. You are such a sweet, sweet baby.

-You have begone to have mini melt downs. I really hope we get through this stage with minimum melt downs. Time will tell.

-You love to put the ball under mommy's shirt and say baby. I think you are telling mommy and daddy that you are ready for a little brother or sister. I think you are going to be an amazing big sister.

-You love for mommy to hold you and mommy loves holding you.

-You love playing hide and seek.

-You love your crayons, mostly you like to eat them but you also like to draw with them and cry when it is time to put them up. I hope you get your daddy's artistic flare.

Zoe, you are heaven sent. I could go on and on about you all day and night. I will however spare other readers. I will end this letter with this.

I will always, always, always, did I mention always love you with all of my heart and soul. I never understood how deep a Mother's love could be until I myself became a Mother. I now understand. I would walk to the moon and back for you baby girl. I am so excited to walk this journey with you. I hope you know that my cup runneth over with pride, joy, love and happiness. You are such a special and precious part of my life. I cherish you baby girl and hope you always remember that I will always be here, right by your side, in the good and bad times.

HAPPY 18 MONTH BIRTHDAY MY BABY GIRL!!

Love,
Mommy

Here are just a few pictures I took this morning. I will take more tonight and post later.