zara on safari

on safari at vanessa and franks place for dinner!
It's 3 more days til her 8th month birthday!

Zara at Turtle park today! It was over 65 degrees and sunny!

Zara visiting friends!!!

Tonight we went to see my friend Jill; who used to be my roommate BM (before Matt). Jill and her husband live so nearby and they have a lovely home and its so nicely designed too! Greg and Jill gave Zara some books and one of them specially for Matt! in fact amtt says it is his favourite called "Daddy's Girl" by the Prairie home companion host: Garrison Keillor! its a great book and the illustrations are so cute.

We also learned today that Megan (my roommate from Atlanta from the Olympic Games) has bought her tickets to come see us in May for Mother's day weekend! She arrives just when Zara and I return from our trip to Arizona!!!

i believe my final day at the Palm is april 15th; if not earlier.. then we go on TOUR! yipee!

I just HAVE to introduce another family website!!!

http://www.huft.net/ozbod/html/index.html

this is victoria's new venture!!!!

Just like Beth and her homemade business; Victoria makes all these pieces herself!!!!

so talented!

i would just love to be her American retailer/wholesaler and make "OZBOD" a super hip and mod brand in the US too!

7 1/2 months old and 14lbs and 5 ounces!!!

Zara grew 9 ounces in the last month! and boy does she have her own personality. Today she seemed to have learned how to wave "bye bye"

more shots

here's Eileen (Matt's younger sister) and the little manTOMMY!!! Eileen just started a great blog you gotta see! http://eifalk.blogspot.com/
Finally a shot of Caleb with Maddie! Caleb and Maddie are the kiddies of Beth (Matt sister too!!) Caleb is just a few months ahead of Zara. In fact, Zara has three cousins within a few of months of her, There is Caleb, Jack (Eileen's youngest boy) and also William in London! http://huft.typepad.com/runcible_spoon/
Beth is amazing with 7 kiddies and she even has her own business while working full time http://www.bethgallic.com/ She makes beautiful cards for special events; you can see her website here if you like!
more to come later..... xxxooo love jocelyn

March 2008

we are still on our high of having all our friends and family down to DC for Zara's day! Thank you all..the pics just keep on coming!


she was happy with the police car .. but soon Jack came and they had a pow wow for it! too funny!

the cousins and aunts and godmother all accounted for!

just missing jimmy and tommy rock and littliest gallic- Caleb- but we got him later... so no worries!!!!!!

just a smattering of shots of Zara's big day

what a thrill for us to have so many family and friends who all made BIG efforts to be here in DC for Zara! More family pics to come....

Getting all dressed up!

We have so many wonderful family pictures I am dying to post; so bear with me, I am trying to find the creme de la creme!!! wink wink!

Feb 27th Chrissie and Te visit Zara!

Chrissie arrived from Kansas with Te on Tuesday! On Wednesday, although i was expecting them over early, they came about 5pm. Zara was just waking up from a nap, so Chrissie (birthmother) and Te and Reece ( THE CONNECTOR!) and her son all ran up the stairs to see her in her crib! She was smiles right away and everyone cuddled her. We went to the Palm for a very early dinner and then came home again for dessert. The next day Zara and i only saw them for about 2 hours and although i was expecting to meet them for dinner that night too, Chrissie seemed liek she had other plans so i didn't push it.

Then the following Tuesday, we had planned to hook up one last time before she flew out that afternoon. Unfortunately, she called and said she couldn't make it because she had to drive Reese home to Pennsylvania before catching her flight in Baltimore. I told chrissie not to worry, i would send loads of pics and mail some to Cuba as well. In fact On Mar 6th she depart for Cuba for 12 months. Poor Devonte will be able to chat with her on internet videophone, but i feel sorry for them both.

Chrissie was amazingly upbeat and thrilled to be able to see Zara. She thanked us very nicely and said she was so glad Zara was with us. These were beautiful words to hear and we are thankful she knows we are doing our very best! The last shot is of Chrissie holding up a shirt for Zara that says Dereon - i think, that is Beyonce's baby line of clothing, but i had to ask who or what that was...aaaghhh ...I have never felt so OLD, we were laughing so hard. She also got Zara some of JZ's line of clothing gear; which is called ROCO WEAR; althoug i actually liked that since it had "R"s all over it- you know... for ROCK!