All By Myself (With Zoe)

Yesterday was Mother's Day, and even though I didn't get any pictures while we were out, I had taken some the night before. Also, on Saturday morning I took a number of pictures of Zoe just lying in our bed. You can see a few of them here, but all of them are in Zoe's set on Flickr.

So today marks the first day in a two week stretch where Zoe and I will be home alone while Cheryl goes back to work. Since I got to be the boss (kind of) today, at the very least I was able to dress our daughter for the day's activities.

We had a great time hanging out on her changing table while I read her a couple of books. She seemed to like Where the Wild Things Are more than Olivia, but probably only because the pictures are larger. After that, she was sort of awake, kind of napping and ate a little bit while I had a virtual book club meeting with a couple of friends. She really seemed to like looking at George and his beard on the computer. He got a couple of smiles out of Zoe. After that it was the rest of her bottle and some time in the swing while I washed some dishes. Then I packed up everything I could think of so we could go visit Cheryl at work.

By the time we got home Zoe was very hungry, so she downed another bottle and then napped for a couple of hours before we left to meet Cheryl for her walk home. All in all, it was a pretty good day. I mean, what did people think would happen? It's not like I don't know how to put on a diaper.

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