update

Zoe is quite the character.. singer... playwright ...
she is also very sincere, a joker, and mischievous

One morning her dad was still in bed, not feeling well... she checked on him before we headed out the door for school and told him he needed a stuffie to hold onto and some hot water... she went and found one of her tea cup (blue plastic with embedded flowers) filled it up and grabbed a stuffed monkey. She brought it all the way downstairs to the guest room where Bruce was and watched him drink it.

Tonight Finn was crying because Zoe elbowed him in the eye (fighting over viewing the iPad).. and I told her to fix it. She came back a few minutes later with "a funny face" she drew on paper (I thought it was a rather scary face).

The mischievous side of Zoe enjoys that spitting thing that kids do with their tongue that adults hate... She loves to do this up close and personal.... as well as gargling her milk at the dinner table.

Every night this week, after bath I've been introduced to someone not Zoe... last night she was a sea monster that had "replaced your daughter"... she would ask me a bunch of questions about "my daughter"... "oh is this her Pajamas?" "Does you daughter have you brush her teeth?"... and kept saying things like "why am I in this skin of this girl", pinching herself... Past nights it has been much simpler, and her name is something like "Alinia".. but it varies every night. The last couple she knew I'd never remember the name so she'd add, "but you can just call me sweetie if you can't remember my name".

Also, now every book is like "Princess Rosebud".. she talks to all of the characters, we don't really read the stories, but the characters (ie me) tell her things in first person and ask her questions about her day, her life, etc.

Zoe's drawings in the last month have gone from a girl, a rainbow, and flowers to having houses, girls with crowns, necklaces, pink lips and most recently fingers. "Look mom, I've figured out how to draw hands"
(I have lots of pictures to put up)

tonight she watched an episode of Jimmy Neutron who went to Egypt.. it had a scene with mummies coming after the kids.. that freaked Zoe out.. she kept saying she'd never go to Egypt.. I finally had her dump all her mummy thoughts into a jewelry box, we shut it quick and I flushed the thoughts down the sink.. I hope it works!

Related: the last couple of months she's been asking to "watch scary shows" with dad... they love Scooby-Do