A friend of mine has twin girls a few months older than Zoe. Last year, when Zoe was still in the cute-but-not-terribly-active stage, and the twins had just entered the cute-and-actually-doing-things stage, my friend told me that her girls were constantly making her and her husband laugh. I’ve never forgotten her comment, and I feel that it now applies to Zoe too – since she’s always doing silly/funny/adorable things around me and Q.

A good example comes from last night, when I put Zoe to bed. It took several attempts to calm her down (she kept bouncing, whimpering and demanding more rocking and singing), but her eyes finally closed and I was able to think about dinner. I was in the kitchen a few minutes later when the oven timer went off and a very loud and very clear cry came from Zoe’s room: “beep, beep, beep, beep!” This was so unexpected (she recently started beeping along to the microwave, but I didn’t know she could hear the oven timer in her room – plus I thought she was asleep!) and so terribly cute. I wanted to rush to her bedroom and give her a big squeeze, but I resisted – which wound up being the right move. A few minutes later, she was asleep. And I had had my good laugh of the day.

-M