Because Zoe looks – and often acts – older than she is, it’s especially jarring (and sweet) when she mixes up words or says age-appropriate things. And so, these recent comments really made me smile.

-I told Zoe on the way to school yesterday that I was staying home that morning to get some things done. “Oh, so you can do a loaf of laundry or two,” she told me.

-Whenever I tell Zoe how pretty she is, I explain that I mean both outside and in. After I said it the other day, she laughed and told me I was silly. “You can’t see the stuff inside – my bones, my heart, my luggage,” she said, referring to her lungs.

-Some of Zoe’s favorite things to play with are objects around the house. Looking for one such thing the other day, she asked, “Mommy, where’s the case for your eye-tacts?”

-Avery bit her sister in anger earlier today. While I was comforting Zoe, she heard Q discipline Avery in the other room. “If she does it again, she’s going to lose play-bridges,” Zoe said, meaning privileges.

-My birthday present to Q this year was a close-up lens for his camera; when Zoe saw it for the first time she said, “Oh, it’s a new nose for the camera!”

-M

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