Lily's All Grown Up!

Just some updates on the Zoeckler goings-on;

As you can see, Lily enjoyed New Year's Eve (even though she celebrated it at 7 pm; right before bedtime). She has been trying more and more foods and is loving solids. Her favorites right now cheerios (she just learned to feed these to herself) and bananas.

Not only is Lily getting bigger, she has mastered crawling and is now pulling herself up onto everything. She can stand while holding onto something, and she can walk with someone's help. In other words, our days at home just got a lot busier!

At the end of February Geoff, Lily and I will be traveling to Las Vegas for a week. We're really looking forward to a vacation. Geoff and I might even get married while we're there :)

The Holidays

Sorry it's taken so long for another posting, but the holidays were crazy as always. This

year it was nice to not have to travel at all, and we even held both family Christmases at our house! Lily had a lot of fun at all three Thanksgiving dinners, and she had fun sleeping at her Gran

dma VanSchyndel's house while her parents camped out at Circuit City starting at 8:00 pm on Thanksgiving night.

Lily seems to be growing more every day. She is now almost seven months old, eating solid foods, drinking from a sippy cup (sometimes), and moving anywhere she wants to go. At her last checkup, the doctor said she is only in the 60th percentile for weight, but the 95th percentile for height. It's time to get a new carseat because she's almost too tall for the old one (she's not even close to too heavy yet)!

We were really excited to see some of you as you came and went during the holiday season, and for those of you we didn't see, we miss you lots. Hopefully our paths will cross soon.

Baptism Day

Lily Ann was baptized on November 12th at Nativity of Our Lord parish in Green Bay. She was one of eight babies being baptised and we thought she was the cutest :)

Lily was great during mass and didn't cry once during the baptism. She was a little startled when some strange man poured water over her head, but she didn't shed a tear. We're so proud to bring our daughter into the church, and we're excited to raise her to know God.

Solid Foods?

We started Lily on her very first solid food last Saturday: Rice Cereal. For those of you who are like my brother, let me clear up some confusion: rice cereal is not like Rice Krispies. It's a box of flakes made from rice. When those flakes are mixed with milk it becomes like a very runny oatmeal.

When we first put Lily in the highchair and put the bib on, she began to protest and we thought that we'd have to put the cereal away and try again in a week or two. But once we started feeding her, she couldn't seem to get enough! She's been eating cereal once a day ever since. Enjoy the cute pictures of her first try at solids.

Lily's First Halloween

We didn't do much trick-or-treating this year, but Lily looked great! If you can't tell, Geoff and I are Black Eyed Peas. :)

Lily and Grandpa: Two Packer Fans! Bill's costume even scared me!

A Trip to MN

I know I'm really behind, but our friends Nick and Karin got married over Halloween weekend. We left De Pere late Thursday night and got to Dave's around midnight, and on Friday we stopped at General Mills and Oak Grove Middle to see some old friends.

About an hour before we needed to leave for the wedding on Saturday, Geoff decided he wanted to buy a car. In typical Geoff style he waited until the last minute, but still got the best deal around. We drove our new Saturn Ion to the wedding and made it just in time.

After the ceremony we dropped Lily off with a babysitter: Deacon Darrel and his wife Chris. We partied it up at the wedding for a few hours, got to see all our old friends in one place, and danced a little before we picked Lily up around 11:00.

Sunday morning we got to go to our old church again. Deacon Murphy is doing much better and was even in church! We miss St. John's so much and we're still searching for that type of parish here in De Pere. After church we had brunch with the General Mills crowd and headed home. It was a great weekend, but I think we're still trying to catch up on sleep!

Mad-Town

This weekend we took Lily on her first weekend away. On Friday night we drive to Madison and stayed in a hotel. We took Lily swimming for the first time and she seemed to love it! She was kicking and splashing and smiling a lot. On Satuday morning we got up and headed out to Lathrop Street (right across from the stadium) to hang out with Geoff's friends before the Badger game. Lily was great the whole time, not even a whimper! We didn't actually go to the game, but we got to see Weiss, Wyatt, and Paul and eat some really good hot dogs. Lily was also offered her first glass of beer :(

After meeting up with Geoff's friends we stopped by to see Brooke and then visited with Hank and Cindy. We left Madison late Saturday afternoon and got home just in time to put Lily to bed. All-in-all a great trip.