Zoe and Jude are speeding toward 1 year….ahhhh! The house is crazy busy. Toys everywhere, girls everywhere. Zoe took her first steps last Sunday a couple days shy of 11 mos old. She is very proud and now stands and practices all the time. Her record is about 5 steps before falling. In Zoe fashion, she is starting to put herself to a stand from nothing but the ground. Jude took a while to get to that point but she is very methodical. Zoe just watches and goes for it. I wonder how telling this will be in the future. It seems I have two real little girls more than babies now. Pretty unbelievable. I am happy to report they are getting along better now. Zoe still steals toys but Jude stands her ground and they seem to reach these amicable playing agreements and move on. I have a LOT of toys…and they manage to drag them all out in no time. I need to get an organization system together sooner than I thought I guess…heh heh.
We just made it through a round of another nasty viral infection…this time causing incredibly loose stools…ugh…on Wednesday I changed Jude 25 times with 9 blowouts…I am happy to report that today she seems back to her “regular” self. The shock you get becoming a parent is one thing, add sickness to that and you grow superpowers you never thought were in you.
I am venturing out for a part-time job…more to get out a little and interact with the world than to make money. Looks like I may work at Gymboree…a children’s clothing store. Just a couple nights a week and it will only be stock, so I show up with some other mothers to change out displays in the store. It is a pretty cake position and I hope to get it today or tomorrow. More excited than I thought I would be. I am going to use the money to buy fun things and to pay for that occasional babysitter, which I have started to shop around for.
On a personal note, I jogged 3 miles last Saturday for the first time in my life….ever. The most I had ever ran is 1 mile in HS for a fitness test. I don’t enjoy running, but I did enjoy finishing the loop in the park and dreaming that I was crossing the line at the Chicago marathon with my family cheering me on….rah rah rah…collapsing in a pile of tears of accomplishment. Oh wait, where am I. Oh yeah, writing this blog. By the time I walked home I changed my mind…no current interest in running a marathon. Baby steps. 
Anyway, just thought I would post a short blurb and check in. Hope you all are well – check out some new video below. The first is Jude getting a “call from Grandma”. The second is us goofing around in the rocking chair in the nursery. Also, a few new pics posted on www.maletz.smugmug.com. See ya!
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