Fish and Chips Story — The Story of Us

Why you don’t put your child in the laundry room to sleep in her rubbermaid bin with a full trash can of newspaper setting beside her……

7 months, can you believe it! I can’t but of course by now I expected to have a figure back other than round, but who knew that was so much harder than it sounds.

So this past month has been soo full of big firsts:

First two teeth (that’s right 6 months and two teeth)

Zoë got her ear’s pierced (video of that in the video gallery, and yes she stopped crying as soon as i gave her pretzel)

Crawling, yup that’s right she was so determined while at Nana Minear’s house to keep up with the other kids she decided to stop rolling and start crawling (why oh why did i wish for this, no i keep losing her, behind the couch, in the bathroom with the door closed, under the spare bed,,, did i mention she gets around!

And last but not least lots and lots o solid food from Thanksgiving and our first Christmas, everything from sweet potato casserole and mashed potatoes to green bean casserole and applesauce,,, yum yum who wouldn’t love Nana’s?

But that’s all from this crazy month, now on to December, more firsts and our second Christmas at Nana Fisher’s,,, wish us luck!

Ok so momma got real inspired and threw together some long lost videos from the past couple of months. Now eventually I will you know, do alora’s 2 year bday party and last year’s christmas, but come on let’s not be technical now, I do have 2 kids.

Hope you enjoy the new videos, under the video section and the bazillion new pics under Nov. ’08.

So the weekends are always chaos in the Fisher household, no matter how much we say it’s the Sabbath. But this Sunday had it’s bright shining moment. Jason and I were upstairs getting ready for house church and Alora and Zoë were downstairs being frightfully quite. When I came down to see the lack of noise. Alora was laying on our coffe table with a whole spread of little books reading to Zoë. She said “P says ppp, R says rrrr” (she was reading an alphabet book with animal pictures.) And there her little sister was just completely engrossed and oblivious to me even being there staring deeply at her sister and taking her one on one time to heart. Now if that doesn’t tug a heart string I don’t know what will.  I pray there future is this wonderful as sisters.

So We Have October Pics up!  It’s a small sampling, which i think you will all be greatful for, because once the November pictures hit i’m not sure what you’ll do with them all. This is all for two simple reasons…

1) November is TURKEY TIME, that means it’s time to give thanks, hunt deer, watch football and get the most adorable pics around of my niece and nephew, also this year Thanksgiving will also be Christmas with my family. So it’s tow holidays rolled into one. Can you imagine the photo opportunities?

2)I just got my Christmas present (yes i know it’s early but as i just mentioned my first Christmas of the year is in two weeks and i have to learn how to use it before then) A brand new DSLR. Now for those of you who don’t know what that is, it’s a fancy high falutin digital camera that requires lenses. It’s a Canon Rebel Xsi to be completely exact. So not only will i have high class holiday pics (hopefully) but i’ve been playing around with it to learn it’s basic features. Which means that no one is safe from the lens. Now can you imagine the number of photos that will be up for November?  Plenty to make up for the lack of October.

So enjoy the Halloween and apple picking pics and i’ll supply you with more than enough to oogle and google over in November!

Well at least that’s what the doctor says. We had Zoë’s 6 month check up full of shots and screams, but on the other note she is 76% for weight and “WAYYYY off the charts for height!” Looks like Zoë will be taking after her big uncle Jeff. Do I see a modeling career in the future? Or at least a beginning to thinner thighs on her, I mean really i can’t put my fingers around “tonka truck’s” thighs.  That just means more for the lovin though.

I do think every day that i am getting closer and closer to the two is enough theory. Two kids, two parents, two arms, two seats in the backseat,,, it’s like it was made to be this way. Any more and i’m scared of what may happen,, maybe then i wouldn’t have to get a perm and see if my hair would fall out, i think it would naturally do it on it’s own. but God Bless my husband,, he still wants his boy,, now granted i don’t understand, but,, not sure if i can do another,, and besides what if it’s a girl?  but more on this discussion later.

Well it’s official my baby is growing up,,,, spit bubbles, any baby food you can give her and rolling in every direction.  It’s amazing how quickly time flies and your insanity wanes with the birth of a child.

4 month and 5 month pics are posted so go checkem out!

Well we survived our first Fisher family 4 outing to a theme park, with a little help from our friends of course.  Now, when we were just the Fisher family 3 we did go to Knoebel’s Grove which was Alora’s first theme park. But this trip was in a completely different ball park. Alora was big enough to ride the rides and understand fully what was going on,, it was so adorable, yet so hard at the same time to see the time passing and her growing up so quickly. Here is a quick video of our trip…..

King’s Island Dial Up

King’s Island High Speed

My how she has grown! Zoë has gotten huge and is eating solid food now. Bananas are her favorites. But most of all she loves everything that’s new. She smiles and giggles with deep chuckles and tries her darndest to sit up or at least use all of her ab strength and pull up.

The older Alora gets, I swear the more wisdom she seems to pull from nowhere.  So yesterday in the heat of the moment in a bad potty break in front of the post office, I was shielding Alora from oncoming traffic while she sat on her potty seat in the van with my stand true sweatshirt. On it it has an angel holding a child and a banner on it that says pray to end abortion. So when i’m at the worst moment of the day trying not to yell at my child to hurry her poop up,,, i decide to ask her to point out the letters on my sweatshirt. After we had gotten through all of them she says “a-b-o-r-t-i-o-n what does that spell mommy?”  I told it was abortion, she said “what’s that?”.  So to my two year old i had to find a way to explain abortion. I told her it was when people were mean to babies. Her look was of terror, she said “who would ever wanna be bad to a baby?” Fighting the tears from my eyes I had to tell her that some people aren’t good and they hurt babies. She almost started crying and asked if someone wanted to hurt Zoë. I told her no she was safe. She then asked what the rest of my sweatshirt said. So I asked her what to pray was and she said “to talk to Jesus” and I told her to end was to stop. So we put together that it said we needed to talk to Jesus to stop people being mean to babies.   What a day through the eyes of a child.

Today she asked me if i could pluck her eyebrows,,,,, after a very long conversation I told her not til she was old enough to be married,,, she said ok, can i have chapstick?  We went with the latter.