Thursday afternoon Zoey comes home from school flying high! In typically Zoey fashion she was wearing pink jeans, Hello Kitty Christmas socks and an orange Halloween t-shirt! Her hair was crazy, thrown in a pony tail, and she was all smiles, giggles, and just her bubbly self! I can't tell you how much I LOVE that she doesn't let anything rule her. She is who she is and loves every moment of it.
Thursday night we were heading skating, Zoey was so excited, but she had to get all her homework done first. She flew threw her homework, getting everything correct on the first try. WHOAAA, motivation! Mommy, is keeping this in her back pocket for future reference!
Each week, Zoey has a new story from her Intervention teacher that she works on every day. The previous week's story was about Roy the Cowboy and his love for Soybeans. Zoey thought this was the funniest story and kept reading it over and over. When she came home (again the previous Friday), and announced "So close! I was SO CLOSE to getting all the way through the story in one minute! AHHHH!". Zoey's goal was to go back to intervention on Friday and show that she could get all the way through the story within the one minute. She missed it by a few words. So we talked about how she should continue to read the story and I would time her again later in the week. Jumping back to Thursday, March 8th, it was time to read about Roy.
Just before Zoey started reading, she was giggling nervously saying "I'm so nervous! OMGosh, I can't do it! Yes I can. OHHHHHHH, nervous!". Once we got the nervous giggles done, she began to read. Guess what?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? She finished the story without a single mistake in 56 seconds!!!!!!!!!!! She was hooting and hollering and jumping around the house doing fist bumps in the air! One of the sheer joys of being a parent is when you can share in a moment of your child feeling an overwhelming sense of accomplishment and pride in themselves.
Of course, Zoey says "Mommy, Mommy, Mommy, take a picture! We have to send it to Ms. Mawhinney!" This is Zoey's teacher, so of course we took a picture!
Mrs. Mawhinney replied "Awesome, I'm so proud of her."
Zoey, giggled in joy!
That night we went roller skating with the Davis family and Zoey was having an absolute blast. Chuck and I were very nervous that she was going to fall and hurt herself because she kept wanting to go faster and faster. In true Zoey style her tongue was out, right between her teeth, and she was determined to go as fast as possible. We reminded her several times to keep her tongue in her mouth.
We skated for two hours, Chuck even helped Zoey learn how to skate backwards! Just as Chuck and I had called it quits and took off our skates. A woman was bringing a crying Zoey off the rink to the front office. Needless to say Chuck and I went over immediately to find that Zoey had fallen. To our surprise it wasn't her tongue but her knee that got hurt. Well miracles never cease! She took our advise! So after an ice pack, a talk with the folks running the skating rink, and a piece of candy later Zoey calmed down. This was incident #1.
The day I got pictures from Chuck of Zoey being dressed up for Disney Character day at school. However, that afternoon I see she has a nice egg on her forehead. Apparently in the morning before school Zoey was playing nerf guns with Jesse and somehow "walked into one of the nerf guns while I was turning around" As Jesse described the situation. Jesse continued " I mean, what was I supposed to do?" So I said to Zoey "What did you learn?" and she just looked at me, again in true Zoey fashion and said "Huh?" Jesse patted her on the head and we went on about our day. This was incident #2.
Saturday had more excitement! Jesse and Zoey were outside playing and she ran into a tree, a branch, a stick......one doesn't really know since Zoey can't quite tell us exactly what it was. However, she now has a wonderful cut on the side of her nose. Daddy was also able to finally pull out that bottom tooth that has been hanging on for dear life for the last few weeks. Zoey was quite concerned about the blood, but she thought it was fun to suck on the paper towel. Her adult tooth had already broken the gum and wasn't coming in right because this tooth was still in the way. One quick yank with some thread and the baby tooth was HISTORY! This was incident #3 and 4.
I honestly cannot remember what Zoey said that cracked her up beyond belief but I couldn't help but take a picture of her smiling face missing yet another tooth. There may be some chocolate ice cream in there too!
Her eyes are tearing up she was laughing so hard.
Sunday, more drama!!!!!!!! I'm trying to pay the bills and Zoey keeps asking Chuck and I if she could go play with Keara in the middle of her running all over the house playing tag, nerf battles, forts, and god knows what else with Jesse. There was jumping, running, banging, not watching where we are going and falling off the bed, running into the doors, etc etc etc. So we said "Yes, you can go play with Keara, ask her to come over here to play." I lost count of the incident numbers.
Chuck and I are talking in the kitchen when Chuck says "What's that screaming?" He runs outside to find Zoey sprawled out on the driveway screaming and crying. He carries her inside. She have scrapped up her knees through her jeans, her elbow, and the top of her hand. Chuck is trying to clean Zoey up and she's just not having it, whimpers all around. Daddy gives her a sympathy pout.
Incident #52!
Zoey proceeds to spend the next hour on the couch with ice packs and the cutest pout on her face that you have ever seen. When I motion for Chuck to look at Zoey, he says "I can put a smile on her face". He goes into the fridge and then quietly goes over to Zoey. Her face lights up when he hands her an Olive Garden Chocolate Mint candy.
After one LONG weekend it was bath time and I thought I was finally going to get some quite. WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!! There was no quiet to be had because Zoey screamed and cried as she took a bath because the scrapes hurt from the water. Poor thing! Needless to say Mommy stepped in and gave her a shower but it still hurt. So afterwards we dried, lotioned, and bandaged! When she was all said and done I had put medicine and bandaids on 7, yes SEVEN, spots. This did not count her nose or forehead.
To cheer her up I put her hair in a high pony tail, her favorite, and then braided the tail in a bunch of smaller braids.
But I got a SMILE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here you can see the bruise on the forehead and the cut on her nose.
One of these days my baby girl is going to be able to see what's going on around her and not get banged up so much! MAYBE!!!!!!!
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