First Week Completed

As I sit here typing this there is less than an hour left of alone time with Zoe before her and I will head out to meet Cheryl for the walk back home. This week has been great. Zoe has definitely gotten much bigger and better at doing things. For example, for the past two days I have been carrying her around in her Baby Bjorn and he seems to really enjoy it. I know this because she has passed out in it every time.

My best friend flew in on Wednesday night from Seattle to hang out with Zoe and me for the week. On Thursday, after just meeting her for the first time, he gave her a bottle and burped her. Then, today, both John and George stopped by for breakfast. It was a very nice visit. John has a daughter named Annabelle who is 9 months old and George's son is due to be born in July. We make quite a trio of fathers.

Since Cheryl has been working all week, and I wanted to make sure that she could see her daughter and I were getting along just fine, I took a number of pictures with the camera in my phone. Here are just a few of them.

My phone doesn't have the best camera in it, so these probably won't print very well; however, you can go to Zoe's set on Flickr and see even more of these low quality phone pictures.

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When Zoe was born, Barack Obama was the president. Today the country is voting to determine who will be president for the next four years. It will still be a long time before Zoe gets to cast her own vote, but when Cheryl got home today, the two of them went around the corner to our voting center and did their civic duty. Cheryl took a couple of pictures. The girls are asleep now, and the race is still too close to call, but I assume when we get up tomorrow (hopefully not in the middle of the night) we'll know who who won. I hope everyone got out to vote today! As you can see by her sticker, Zoe did.

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