first day

yesterday i said, "why don't you lick Super Why with the puppet", to zoey, in a desperate attempt to get some personal space. today i talked about "localizing assets to their language and making a file for supporting documents and guidelines". both conversations felt normal, but the later was from a deep part of my brain that got left behind 3 years ago.
yesterday i woke up to the girl wanting to leave our bedroom to "eat dinner" at 6am, as usual. after i gave in to her screams of "i don't want to change my diaper change!!!!", she ran and i stumbled to the kitchen where our daily what-for-breakfast decision ensued. toas with "JUST HONEY!" was decided upon after viewing of fridge contents, discussion of letting cold air out which results in rotten food, and explaining that we don't east JUST VEGANAISE for breakfast. then there was much talk about eating over the plate, drinking milk or juice, keeping cup away from elbows, who eats which vitamins, and not rubbing hair out of the face with honey covered hands. somewhere in there i ate cereal and cleaned up (a little). then onto the argument of getting dressed to leave the house which lasts twice as long as the breakfast event, and includes numerous requests for tv watching and story reading, and the running of the cats and zoey from each other.
today, we had to squeeze this into an hour. this is the difference between me working, and me not working.
thankfully, she LOVES school and even took a nap! i am enjoying reviving my brain from its long, lovely trip. i look forward to getting a computer so i can do something more useful than write stories of our first day. although, i'm glad to have it in the blog bank.

news

loves corn on the cob

loves playing in the water

loves playing with henry

a few new things are happening in our lives lately...

1. i'm going to work this wednesday, full time although i get out early on fridays so that's nice.

2. zoey will be going to daycare, or "school" as we call it around here, starting wednesday as well. she's very excited about it, and has her dora lunch box and hello kitty thermos ready to go.

3. zoey put her head under water, repeatedly, for the first time today! we were at a wading pool in a state forest that is pretty awesome, aside from being 90 degrees in the water today (i'm guessing, but the thermometer said 100!) she just said down and went under water, and even had her eyes open for most of the time. it reminded me that she indeed will be able to just start using the potty some day. it's like a magic click inside a kid. no matter how much i asked her if she wanted to go under water, or put her underwater myself, she wouldn't do it. then she just decided she could today.

haircut

a nice long weekend

it started off with a pancake breakfast. i'm not a breakfast cook. eric is. every time he makes pancakes zoey helps him out, and of course they have to wear their aprons.

action

searching

moving

freezing

on to dinga's house, for a clam boil. we ate lots of potato salad.

looking

posing

shell

little

unoriginal

VERY VERY tired

second wind

don't worry mom, i usually put her hair up out of her face (all day long) but she just wasn't having it that day, so i let it fly away.

perty

love it

love it more

tonight zoey held up one of her tub toys and said, "daddy, it's a solitary light."

the other day, when i said i had to check the spinach to see if it was too hot she said, in the manner of a beastie boy, "check it out. check it boyee."

lately:

she MUST do what she decided to do, but will do what i tell her...after she has done what she wanted/decided to do. for instance, after bath she/we brush her teeth every night. tonight she forgot, or didn't want to brush her teeth and started walking to the bedroom, while eric repeated, "time to brush your teeth, don't forget your teeth" a million times. she came around the corner to where i am sitting at the computer (en route to the bedroom from bath time) and looked at me (CUTE, wearing her white bathrobe, hood and all, and with a glistening face) and said, in her, I'm Acting LIke A Grownup voice, "good night mommy, i'm going to bed...after i brush my teeth" and then went back to the bathroom. she will be coming by any minute to go into the bedroom. hehe.

i cut her hair today. it's shorter that ever. it's cute, and hopefully good for summer. she gets heat rash too much. pictures of haircut coming soon.

willful child takes over benevides household. that's our headline lately i think. i'm not sure what's happening, but i think it's a mutiny.