Zoe came home from our little preschool yesterday with a astronaut hat, calling herself a “space-naut”.

In a show of her daddy’s influence, she sang these lyrics to the song “Wake Up” from Lazy town:

Actual lyrics: “Wake up, wake up, it’s a great big beautiful day”

Her version: “Wake up, wake up, in your bed. Get pizza”.

Note on preschool: Zoe is “doing preschool” with three of her friends once a week; we rotate houses, and the mom of the house teaches that day.  We learn a letter and a topic (animals, the moon, fall, that kind of thing) and do group time and an art project and free play. They’re really enjoying it, and we moms are too.  Zoe’s really lucky to have such great little friends!

Zoe is playing with her toy Parker (a 12″ Mustang replica). She is holding open it’s door and calling, “Puppies, come in this door!”

That is all.

I think this picture really sums up one of the many moods of Zoë.

Our friend Rozemary has this to say:
“Ah! too darned cute!! She’s like “yes, I know I’m beautiful and you want to take my photo, but STOP, because I said so and I’m the princess!”"

Here’s Zoë modeling her latest fashions. She actually picked this dress out at the store and loves it.

As always, click on the pictures to see the full size image.

Zoe told me a story this morning.  Each part came with prompting from me (ie. What animal? What did she do?)  and “a witch!” is accompanied by a flick of the magic wand, kind of like abracadabra. The princess was inspired by one of the fairy princesses on her blanket.

The princess saw a frog.
She said, “a witch!”
The frog ran away.
She saw another animal.
She saw a giraffe.
She said, “a witch!”
The giraffe ran away.
She saw another animal.
It had long legs.
It was a spider.
She had her wand.
She said, “a witch!”
It ran away.
She saw another animal.
It was a cow.
It said “moo!”
She said, “a witch!”
The cow ran away.
Me: ” Did the fairy princess have a friend?”
Princess had a cow.
Me:”Did she say “a witch!” to the cow?”
No, they hug.

Yesterday Zoe was supposed to be taking a nap, but had been singing and playing in her bed for about an hour instead. I heard her say, “Momma, I need help!” so I went in to see what was going on, and when she saw me come in she stood up and proudly proclaimed, “Momma, I naked!”.  And indeed, she had managed to take her shirt off, and was very pleased with herself. All I could do was laugh, and when she asked to get out of bed, I figured she’d earned it.

This has to be one of my favorite Zoë videos to date:

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(again, mad props to Brittany Ryan)

Zoë likes to play jokes. Here she illustrates the classic “Make Daddy Drink Peanut Butter Instead of Water” bit.

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A little piano interlude

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