all the world is a song...

[in a sing-song voice] "I've got to go pee pee because I want to get a treat"

Zoe spends a lot of her day singing, and with pee pee training on, this day is no different

(we've not had a diaper on since early this morning.. about 10 times pee-ing on the potty and one accident (while playing with water))

Here is an nearly month old video (01.01.10) of her singing twinkle, twinkle.... if you see the tree shaking.. it is the kittens in the tree.

potty training.. on her own terms

Zoe has just gone peepee on the potty for the 3rd time in a row!

(since peeing on her stepping stool earlier)

since about noon, she's been running around naked. (her choice)

Maybe she's decided for real, she doesn't want to wear a diaper.. or she just enjoys the candy I've been giving her after each time. (It started with her sitting on the potty before bath last night and going potty and getting her reward).

She asks me: "Are you proud of me?"

Sadie the Ballerina

one of our favorite new stories is Sadie the Ballerina about a girl who wants to do Ballet, goes to the Nutcracker Ballet, and goes on stage. She has two pony tails, so I was finally able to talk Zoe out of her one and only style (Tinkerbell hair, all on top), and she sported two pony tails to ballet class this morning.. unfortunately my camera battery was dead. But boy is she a cutie!

polly pocket

Zoe and I were very excited to find out that Disney now makes Polly Pocket size dolls complete with the same rubbery dresses... I just bought her sleeping beauty.. and can't wait to fill in her collection.. the dresses are much better than the skimpy Polly Pocket clothes :) (and they do fit on the Polly Pocket dolls of which she has 4).

let unattended yet 20 feet away

If there are letters missing from this message.. it is because we are doing home improvments and I left Zoe occassionally playing by herself.. I came back and two of the keys on my keyboard were popped up... now in addition to hitting the "h" key hard and multiple times for one letter, I now have trouble with "e", "f" and "g"... great...

did I mention she was washing playdoh?

did I mention the 1/4" of water on my kitchen counter?

ah... self entertainment...

2nd ballet class

Zoe started her first ballet class last week. I'll post video soon.
Today she went again.. I was the only parent who had to be there.. I think most girls had taken the class before.. many times... (9 other 3-4year olds)

representational drawings

pics from 12.31.2009

Over night a week ago, Zoe started drawing representations of faces. I have a photograph of one of the first ones I've seen... a spider with circle, eyes, mouth, lots of legs.

On our fridge I have one she drew yesterday of a "rock", with eyes, mouth, 2 legs and 2 arms.

(TBP)

catfood

Zoe loves to play in the laundry room, the place the kittens called home for most hours as they got used to us and the house. Unfortunately she is fond of distributing the cat food, spread it all over laundry room, in litter boxes, cat post, floor... ugh! Good morning to me.

Zoe's new daycare

Zoe survived a week (4 days) of day care. I dropped her off yesterday, and she cried a lot.. Tricia said she had a hard time for an hour. (I had a hard time all day).. I could tell that she was quite torn between wanting to be with me and wanting to play with her new friends. It was clear on her face, her voice, that she alternated between it being okay and something she did not want to do.

holding her breath

Yesterday at breakfast, I made oatmeal, but Zoe was worried it was too warm. then she tasted it, it was too cold... so she asked for it to be hotter. I switched the contents of her bowl from the pot, she was not happy and so she held her breath. I couldn't help it.. I laughed.. I laughed so hard that Finn was laughing too. She left the table and went to her room.

I wonder where she got that from.. or is it just innate?

crazy

first day at daycare

I really need to get Bruce to tell about Zoe's first day at Tricia's.. home day care... she was there from 12-5. Bruce dropped her off and stayed for about 45 minutes with her.

She started playing by herself, and the two other 3 year olds keep trying to involve her. Finally they got into dress up clothes, Zoe as a Mermaid and that did it. Tricia even had placemats that matched their outfits. (I need to remember to buy more placemats like that).

She had a good time, she must have, she was exhausted when she got home. Apparently there was one episode where she cried but couldn't say why. She was okay when Tricia said her Dad would be there to pick her up soon.