Zoe stories
A few recent comments/stories that made me laugh:
-One night last week Zoe, in a particular loving mood, told me, “I love you more than usual. I love you bigger than the city and bigger than outer space. I’ll never stop loving you.” But her tune slightly changed a few days later when she said, “I’m going to love you forever – or at least until I’m a teenager.”
-We’ve been trying to get Zoe to stop sucking her thumb for months – with fairly good results. (I haven’t seen her suck her thumb during the day in weeks.) One night, when I gently reminded her about her thumb, she told me she would stop when she was five. “You’re almost five,” I told her and, in the tone of an exasperated teenager, she said, “Well, I didn’t say almost five – I said five!”
-More recently, Zoe began telling us that she doesn’t suck her thumb at night anymore. Q and I were skeptical, especially when she would tell us at bedtime to not check on her or come in her room until morning. (We knew what she was doing in there!) And I had to fight back the laughter when she interrupted me during a song one night last week. “Just leave me alone, Mommy,” she said, not unkindly. “You can stop singing and go night-night.” Obviously the pull of her thumb was stronger than her desire for a song!
-Last week, while driving the girls to school, another car cut us off. I didn’t say anything (I swear!) but my body language must have tipped off Zoe, who piped up from the back seat, “Is that the worst-est driver you’ve ever seen?”
-The other morning, completely on her own, Zoe changed her sister’s diaper. When Avery approached me not long after to say she had gone “caca,” Zoe was less than pleased. “Are you kidding me?” she cried out, sounding like a frustrated mom (uh, like me). “I just changed your diaper five minutes ago!”