sunshine makes me happy

dare devil (i was standing and looking up, not kneeling when i took this picture)

his eyes were watching us

spiky ball things

nice hole in tunnel

1 part spacing out + 1 part i know you're taking my picture and i'm trying not to act like i know

i think she looks like me here, holding blues clues on dvd of course

nice hair

no windows by couch

speedy

smug cuteness

hello

disgruntled carny

another disgruntled carny

i love her feet

laugh

chaperon

justine took this one that i love

zoey loves lowly

jonathan, "hmm, a girl at the wheel..."
zoey, "he has no idea i'm taking him to the princess store"

she's just like me

this morning, around 4 or 5am eric and i woke up to zoey crying in bed. i thought she was awake, until she said emphatically, "I DON'T WANT TO GO TO THE LIBRARY!!!" we giggled as quietly as possible, then waited for her to get up or call one of us over, but she went back to sleep. YESSSS! this was pretty telling, as it is what takes of a good deal of our days up...refusing to go anywhere, come back from anywhere, leave anywhere, stop doing anything, etc. etc.

i remember reading this somewhere, it must be a phase. change is hard, toddlers hate change. i wonder if it's harder for her or for me and eric. i'm guessing her because she takes longer to get over it. it's definitely more exhausting for us parents though. you know, the old, she FREAKS OUT and screams that she doesn't want to take a bath, then we get her in there, and she does the same thing about getting out. i think i might need to read up again on transitions.

i'm very bad at making transitions easy for her because i am so damn indecisive that i usually make last minute decisions. i do warn her that we have 5 more minutes to play if we have to leave a playmate's house or something like that...and i'm happy to say that she complies some of the time. still, the 1000 other times are there.

this stage seems to be all about bribes...a book on cd in the car, a candy in my bag, a new snack at the grocery store. today we went to our friend's house and instead of recognizing it as jacob and ben's house, when we pulled up the driveway, she said, "this is the house on veggie booty!" (that "health food" snack called "pirates booty" that she loves right this minute.

eric is still putting her (and himself) to bed every night. actually he's gotten very good at coming out before too late, so he and i get a little time to watch mind numbing shows on the laptop.

this weather is heavenly by the way. it has been sunny and in the 70s for the last three or so days! vitamin d is being soaked up as much as possible!