I know, I know. You've been living for 11 days now without ONE SINGLE ZOEYISM, and you're going crazy, right?
Right.
A few pearls of wisdom I've managed to get out of my daughter recently:
1. Zoey has recently decided she will not be attending kindergarten. Never mind that it's nearly three years off...and that, if you had asked her months ago, she would have gone hysterical with excitement about ANYTHING that involved her getting on a school bus. Not sure what flipped the coin and made kindergarten suddenly seem so...what? Intimidating? Boring? I'm not sure. Anyway, she has a list of life goals she WILL accomplish, including but not limited to "getting big, drinking coffee, driving, and becoming an ambulance girl", and I have yet to make her understand that kindergarten is a pre-req FOR ALL OF THOSE THINGS.
But we're working on it.
2. Zoey actually managed to squeeze a nap in to her busy schedule yesterday, while snuggled in bed next to Mommy, who was trying to make the sadness that is A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Housseini go away, and the only way that was happening was to power-read through at least 100 pages in less than 24 hours. Not sure who had the more daunting task...me, for completing the (wonderfully written, gripping, interesting) book that left me weeping in despair for the state of all humanity, or Zoey, because we all know how she feels about napping.
Anyway.
After finishing the book and, you know, feeling like I could use a pick-me-up, I decided to head to the gym. This was all before Zoey woke up, and I knew she'd be miffed to wake up and find me gone, but I figured she'd get over it quickly. The following conversation ensued later on at the dinner table:
Zoey: Mommy. I woke up from my nap and I cwied and cwied for you, because you were gone. (Followed by a very stern, reproachful look.)
Me: Oh. I figured you might be sad...but then I thought you'd be happy, because Daddy was here to play with you!
Zoey. Well. I wasn't.
Bryan: *rolls his eyes*
3. Bryan and I went in for our parent-teacher conference today at Zoey's daycare. Apparently, Zoey is excelling both academically and socially. And by "excelling academically", I mean she knows all her colors and shapes, and she understands concepts like 'near and far', 'empty and full', and 'first and last'. And by "excelling socially", I mean she manages to act at school completely the opposite of how she traditionally behaves at home, which is to say that Ms. Nicole reports never having put Zoey in time-out. Ever. At all. And I even asked her to dig back through ALL her records, just to be sure. Because, really? WE HAVE ENTIRE DAYS AT HOME SPENT SITTING IN THE TIME-OUT CHAIR.
Bryan and I got in the car, took one look at each other, and said at the same time "well, at least she's behaving SOMEWHERE."
1 comment:
I do miss your blog posts!
I laughed at the "entire day in the time out chair" part. Some days I feel like all I do is yell things like "Go straight to the bathroom and wash your hands. Don't touch anything on your way. And for Gods' sake, stop walking through that cupcake!" You guys are right, at least she's being good somewhere!" :)
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