The First Zooklet Walks

Some of Norah's First steps. Listen carefully at the end and you'll hear her say one of the first words she learned.

More random shots

Norah's teeth shot

Reading time. This is a rare occasion where they aren't fighting over the books. Most of the time they are stealing them from each other and biting the other in anger. Or they are eating the books.

Eliza says: you can never have enough books on your lap. You never know when your sister will snatch one from you so it's always nice to have a back-up.

Cute Random Shots

Above: Love the Kitty (Norah)
Below: Love the Ducky (Eliza)

Norah says: First time on a swing, no big deal!

Eliza says: This is fun once you get the hang of it.

I've tried to put clips in Eliza's hair but as soon as Norah spots them she rips them out. Then they end up passing it between them to chew on it. Oh well. Maybe someday they'll stop picking on each other (yeah right).

Visits with Grandma

Above: Grandma with Norah
Below: Grandma with Eliza

More Birthday

Above: Before
Below: After (notice Eliza [on left] licking her lips)

The Girl's First Birthday

Eliza and Norah celebrated their first birthday on July 22! Hard to believe we made it through a whole year! Here they are examining their cupcakes. Eliza ended up dropping hers on Horton (our cat) and Nana had to chase after him to wipe the chocolate off. Norah wasn't too sure about her cupcake, while Eliza pretty much ate the whole thing. This is pretty much a before shot.

Here's an after shot of Norah.

And an after shot of Eliza.

Here they are opening a present from Nana and PopPop.

Hopefully I'll get more pictures added after I upload my camera to the computer which takes a lot of time. These pictures are courtesy of my mother.

Beach 2008

Finally got a moment of quiet time to sit at my computer and add some pictures. These are from our trip to the beach in June. Hope to add some birthday pictures soon. Keep posted.

Here's the Gottschall/Lineberry/Zook clan. Aren't we cute.
(L-R Steve, Kristin, Connor, PopPop, Nana, Eliza, Kris, Amanda and Norah)

Mommy and a smiling Eliza

The Zook family
Eliza on left, Norah on right

Norah and Nana