We've had a very busy couple of weeks since my last post! Zoey's second tooth came in on Tuesday of this last week (Dec 9th), which was a full 2 weeks + 2 days after the first one. It was a hard couple of weeks! She was generally fussier, and really couldn't sleep through the night as she had been, requiring several comforting spells in the rocking chair to get back to sleep. She's doing better now that the second one is in, but we're not quite back to an 8-hour stretch of sleep yet. The photo above was taken on the day that the first tooth came in, while we were packing in our old apartment -- you can see her feeling it with her tongue! She still does this most of the time, so it's nearly impossible to get a picture of the teeth, but we'll keep trying.
We moved on Dec 1st into a house we're renting in a great neighborhood, about 4 miles from where we lived before. The neighborhood is infinitely quieter -- we haven't had a single police car go screaming past our window yet! It's a bigger house with a large back yard, and the best part is that there are many families in the neighborhood with babies under a year old! We're so excited for Zoey and see ourselves spending the next several years here. The photo above was taken a couple days after moving in; Zoey spent time in the backpack while we unpacked boxes.
The only downside so far is that the house has fleas! We are battling them valiantly, and our poor kitty is taking the brunt of the problem, but I think we're starting to get the upper hand. We've chosen the non-chemical route for obvious reasons; Zoey is eventually going to be crawling around on this carpet and we don't want chemical residue there from flea bombs or other treatments, so we are using other means. It takes a little longer, and unfortunately we can't really put Zoey on the floor until the fleas are gone, so crawling practice has been postponed for a while. :-(
And then we started solid foods, finally! With all of the hubbub around moving and teething, we waited to introduce solids until things settled down a bit (mostly because Mommy could only juggle so many major milestones at once). Applesauce was the first food, and now we're on pears, and hoping to try carrots and broccoli this week. We have a little food grinder, and it's kinda fun to steam the food and run it through the grinder. We're staying on one food at a time for 3-4 days to see if she has any kind of allergic reaction before moving on to the next. Daddy had lots of food allergies as a child, so we're taking it slow and easy. Zoey seems to really enjoy eating from a spoon -- she gingerly opens her mouth and gums at the edge of the spoon for a few bites, and then eventually she just grabs it with both hands and puts the whole thing in her mouth. Nom nom nom...
We're having a winter storm this week! We got a couple inches of snow last night and it has continued to snow a little bit all day today. It's very blustery, so it's hard to tell how much snow has accumulated, but even just a couple inches tends to shut things down in Portland. There is usually a layer of ice that goes down first before the snow hits, but then the city doesn't really have a whole lot of snowplows or sand trucks either, so people generally just stay in. And the people who go out are not the ones you want to be on the road with! Just an hour ago, some idiot came around the corner too fast and ended up S-turning through a few of our neighbors' yards (and ours!), narrowly missing a couple of parked cars and a light pole. The temp is supposed to stay below freezing through next weekend, so there will be plenty of opportunities for accidents around town until the snow melts. We're hoping to just minimize our driving altogether and coccoon in our new home!
Hope everyone out there is staying warm and having a wonderful December!
