Bath and Bubbles

In the video you'll hear Zoe say "Bate, Bate, Chocolatte" which is spanish for "Mix, Mix, Chocolate".

alphabet: Soup and Song

I gave Zoe Alphabet soup for dinner tonight, and without my asking, or really saying it was alphabet soup, she started singing the alphabet song.. this recording was the second time through; When Daddy came home, she got all the way to Z...I was really impressed.. I didn't think she was so close to the whole alphabet.

near potty training?

Zoe ran around naked for a while today, while we were prepping lunch, and came to me and said, Mommy, I have to go on the potty... I had set it out in the front room when she was running naked.. she sat down and tooted... I had her sit for a bit more.. nothing else.. she ran around a while, and then came to me... she had gone #2 on the floor.. yikes.. at least it was hardwood.

Notes from Anna

Anna told me last week that she and Zoe were reading a story, something that says something about loving her mommy, and Zoe looked at her and said very thoughtfully "I love my mommy".. and then paused and said, "I love my Daddy"..

;)

birthday coming up

So I just put together Zoe's birthday invitation....



Now I just need to come up with a list of invitees (and hope I don't miss anyone)..

I am also now thinking about what I want to get her.. on my list (but I won't be getting everything...):

Dora Backpack
Toy Kitchen and supplies
Slide for backyard
New toy box to put her dress clothes in
Socks ;)
Dora (sporting-full-coverage type) Shoes (lace up if I can find them, hopefully not velcro)
Doll House (perhaps the Dora one, but generic might be fine)
Toy Computer
Disney little Fairy dolls (she is into fairies)
Disney princess stuff: she seems to like "Belle" best... (easiest to say?)

Then we also need to find time for a stop at Sears for Pictures!

tub 'o cream cheese and spoon

This morning, Zoe said she wanted a sandwich. so I pulled out the english muffin, creamcheese, eggs, and got to cooking.. Zoe grabbed the cream cheese, and insisted I open it.. I tried to distract, but in the end, she sat down with the Salmon Cream Cheese and a spoon (I gave her.. better than fingers I figured).. she ate several spoonfuls (and I have pictures and video).

Zoe-ism

I was thinking of a few Zoe-isms that I might not have put down...

Zoe call M&Ms (smarties in Canada): "Doggie balls"



She says "needa".. as her filler word.. we think it grew from "I need a..." but it could just be jibberish

Zoe calls "Pocky" (a Japanese cookie stick covered with something like strawberry or green-tea frosting).. a popsicle... she prefers the green tea over strawberry

a day at SIGGRAPH

Zoe attended SIGGRAPh for the second time... as always, she was the star when she chose to be.. We went to breakfast and then to the mall at first, to let her run around the toy store while I shopped a minute (Clinque ;).... she crashed before we made it to lunch (with Vidya).. and after that she didn't run around much, I think she was still to tired, needing another hour of nap.. so she watched Dora with Daddy (hours worth) while I went around the exhibit floor trying to round up animations, talk to people (AKPeters, etc.)... Then we walked and talked more, she got more lively after fueling up with a smoothy and cereal... then she took off in real force, running up and down ramps, around in circles in the circly hallways, etc.

The cutest part was her talking to the robot ... a nother missed photo opportunity.. but not to worry, I'll catch it tomorrow on video.. got the camera right here... going in the stroller now.

More Dora to recover, played a bit around Evan (Dave and Helen's little boy).. shared her treats, ate some of theirs.

It was a good day with lots of talking (Mommy and Daddy catching up with Utah folks, my students, etc).. all enabled with the help of Dora. gotta love Dora/Diego.

daddy's penis

This entry is to make Zoe cringe as a 14 year old.... or maybe she won't... Dad is giving her a bath tonight.. shortly into it, she says, "Daddy, shorts off", "Daddy Off" (when he didn't take his underwear off)... then shortly follwed by "Daddy's tummy"... and a bunch, bunch (almost drowned our by me laughing)... "Daddy's penis".... over and over... I don't remember teachiing her that.. Daddy doesn't either.. but said he might.

It is amazing what she knows.

She is turning into quite a parrot...

that reminds me that one morning.. we were kind of cuddling, all three.. Zoe was kind of still just waking, so we were whispering... after a minute or two, she just starts into this whispering bit too (unintelligible.. but cute as it could be).

The same kind of thing happend when I was trying to discretely talk about her Dora treats (we now use the code word "DT").. she barely overheard me, but repeated word for word what I said in three instances.

I just hope we don't say anything that will embarass us later.. I'm sure it will happen

First amusement park

Zoe went to her first amusement park today.. Knott's Berry Farm. One of the stewardesses on the plane said it was perfect for her age, with lots of rides.. we were not disappointed.. Zoe flew the Red Baron Planes, rode Snoopy's Bus (twice!), rode in a hot air balloon, about half were by herself, half with one of us... She lasted pretty long.. crashing when we finally broke for lunch at 12:30.. the last two rides before lunch didn't go so well because she was tired. But the place was mostly empty.. we hardly had to wait for anything.. most we just waited until the current one emptied out. The one that amazed me the most was the huff-and-puff.. think about those pump little wheeled things that used to go on the railroad tracks... the kind you see in the first scene in the muscial movie "Oh Brother"... anyway.. she sits down in this car by herself.. and pumps back and forth.. I didn't think she'd do it... not to say that she didn't get a partial free ride of pushes from the people behind her, but she loved it and did a good portion by herself.

The most disappointing part... I didn't bring the camera.. I looked for it once.. got sidetracked.. forgot it.. we did take some picture with our phones, we'll have to see how it goes, not sure how to get them off the phone.

We stayed at the park until 4:30ish... came home, took some time in the pool, and then I left her for 5 minutes with her dad and she talked him into Dora... she's been watching it on her player for an hour.. I don't know how I'll get her away from it.

more diving!

Zoe, Bruce and I watched the Olympics last night.. Zoe fell in love with Diving.. so much so, as soon as they would change what they are showing, even just waiting for the scores, Zoe would chant: "More diving!"...

"He's juggling..."

This is a place holder for videos from a night of family laughter.. hillarious.. started with Zoe dressed in a winter hat, carrying two purses, a bracelet, and dress shoes, ending up with Daddy juggling the dress shoes, followed by Zoe handing him random things to juggle, like dresses, then "a bed" (a king size pillow), a book, a purse.. oh we were all in stitches.. and I caught it all on video. To be posted Soon.



At this point Zoe started handing Bruce lot of miscellaneous things... "Juggle a bed, Juggle a book, Juggle a purse..."

cuddly Zoe

Zoe is just cute, cute, cute... She is now periodically sleeping through the night and spending time in our bed cuddling. In fact, Zoe has gotten a lot more cuddly of late.. sometimes I get home and she says "In Mommy's bed".. which means she wants to curl up with me and cuddle.. with one of my arms behind her head and one resting tightly across her. Sometimes she does the same with cuddling in the bingbags.