31 Months

This last month with Zooey has been so much fun! She is a very happy and bubbly girl. She laughs all the time, and she thinks the smallest things are silly. She is gaining an imagination and likes to play using it. For examble, she loves to rock her babies, give them love pats, take Elmo potty, clean up his accidents and send her Little People to MOPS and the gym on the bus. She is getting really into music, requesting songs in the car, before nap and bed and also just sporadically throughout the day. Some of her favorites right now are "If You're Happy and You Know It" and "Ring Around the Rosie." Zooey's really trying to be more independent, and when she does not want my help, she makes it very clear. She also gets very frustrated sometimes and forgets to ask for help and just says "no" over and over. She is so smart, and I am constantly amazed by what she and her friends pick up and tell the adults in their lives. This morning, we were driving to MOPS, and she saw the library and pointed it out, for example. Also, when we drive down a particular street and are getting close to our street, she will say our street name or "yellow," meaning the McDonalds closest to our house (which she can't see yet, she just knows it is coming up). Anyone who thinks children are dumb or don't understand things has clearly never been around a child for very long!

Zooey weighs 27.9 pounds and is 33 inches tall. She's definitely had a growth spurt lately - she's taller in comparison to her friends, and some of her (brand new) 2T shirts are short and a little tight.

Zooey now:
~ Drinks out of a big girl cup when we are at home and usually at restaurants (most of the time).
~ Is using a lot of new language! Yay! It's fun to hear her little voice saying words and communicating words, and she will imitate or repeat words when asked most of the time.
~ Calls my dad "Pappy," which is super hilarious if you know my dad and his roots. :)

Zooey loves:
~ Poop! I thought only boys were obsessed with poop, not so. She says her dolls go poop in the potty all the time then says it's stinky.
~ Kinda' related, but her potty Elmo.
~ Cleaning things off with baby wipes or kleenex.
~ Dolls
~ Her Little People sets
~ MOPS and the gym - she asks almost daily if we are going to one of these places when we go bye bye and gets upset if I tell her no
~ Tickle games
~ Books, especially the Bible. She is really beginning to enjoy the library even more, and she loves for me to sit with her after story time on the little kid benches and read her the books that she picked out.
~ She continues to be a HUGE Daddy's girl. It's like I'm not even around when he's home, I'm telling you!
~ She has also been asking for her RaRa lately, since she spent the night at her house a couple weeks ago.

Zooey dislikes:
~ Stopping her play to go potty (lots of fits over this, even with a timer or adequate warning!)
~ She's going through a picky eating stage.

This is a video of Zooey getting very excited at me snapping me fingers. Who'd have thought that could be so entertaining?



with her Pappy at breakfast

more snapping from RaRa...she's trying to snap back

Love the concentration face!

Daddy snuggles are always the best

My little "bug" in her swimming pool

experimenting with shaving cream...

...the end result!