Zoe continues to grow and develop. It's crazy how alert she now seems (actually not crazy, but very cool). One of the neatest things is how she can display a full range of emotional faces within a ten second span. She goes from full -on-cartoon-frown-y face to mouth-wide-open-about-to-cry to sticking-her-bottom-lip-out-sad to perplexed to mouth-in-an-O-shape-just-discovered-something-new to huge-full-face-grin. And then, of course, sometimes she just stares at you blankly with her "I'm not sure what you're doing, but I'm not entirely impressed" face.
Melissa and I, meanwhile, have been doing a lot of yardwork. Most of it is just general maintenance, but we've also gotten our summer vegetable garden planted, repainted and installed some old house lights as back yard garden art, and started the process of tearing out the first couple of feet of the lawn so we can replace it with some drought and deer resistant plants to give a bit of a screen. I was thinking that this was going to be a couple of hour project, but it turns out that removing sod takes a significantly greater amount of effort than I was expecting, so it appears I'll be working on it for a while.