The Zoe Blog

I’m thinking Zoe is starting to get a virus. Which means, it should be a lovely couple of days.

She was fine this morning, but this afternoon, she just whined and cried. Put her to bed, and when I went to get her, she had thrown up in her bed. Then, when she had a BM, it was just as psychedelic green as it could be.

So, a virus for sure, just not sure how bad it is just yet. Maybe she’s had it and she’s trying to get rid of it, or, it’s just the beginning.

Praying that she feels better and that all is well over the next couple of days.

Zoe’s Toddler Forecast: Taking a bath

This baby girl of ours is finally starting to talk. Yay baby girl!!!

I am so proud of her. I can actually start to understand her words now. I’m not just guessing. :)

Her latest sentence was this morning was, “baby fall”.

Clear as day, and it was a surprise to hear it!!

Hurry up and start talking more, sweetheart. Mommy wants to girl-talk with you!!!

Zoe’s Toddler Forecast: About to get up from a nap that didn’t happen :)

We finally got over the cold that was hindering my poor title girl over the holidays. We had a few nights that were bad where she was croupy and needed to sit up and take a breathing treatment. I remember one night she couldn’t breathe well at all and when I started up the breathing treatment, within seconds she just slumped over and slept. Only lasted the duration of the treatment (5min), but hey, she got a little bit of shut eye. After about a half hour, we put her to her own bed, and she was out until the next morning.

Now, she has a wet cough and she’s doing do much better. Thank the lord above.

Today, Zoe started preschool. She isn’t starting where Caleb is, but we are doing the same homeschool program that Caleb did before he started going to preschool. Today, we learned the letters A-C and we familiarized ourselves with the numbers 0-3.

One thing I learned while doing this with Caleb is to be more patient and to go at the ace of the child. Zoe enjoyed it, I think. She knows B, and can mimic me when I say a and C. Well, really all the letters. Numbers, she wasn’t interested in, and frankly neither was Caleb. But, we’ll take it slow. Can’t wait to see if her speech improves while doing this.

Speaking of speech, she is doing much better. She’s beginning to use 2-3 word sentences now and we can actually understand her. still not exactly where Caleb was at this time, but she’s getting there. Very happy with her progress. I’m starting to use Caleb because she would always mimic him, but now, she’s starting to “trust” me and mimic me when I talk.

She’s doing well otherwise and boy is her dramatic, sassy personality coming out. Can’t wait to see how this goes as she grows up. Just have to make sure we tell her when and how to work that personality. And has she started ever becoming the little ham. Oh. My. She has me in stitches some days. :) And she can’t really talk all that well, but it’s her mannerisms or the way she uses her facial features.

She loves her books and her devotions. We started doing a devotion book with her and she really listens. We call it the Jesus book and she clear as day almost says it that way too. “Jesus boop”. Yeah. I know. We’re still working on the K sound, but we’ll get there. :)

Seriously, I am so blessed. Two wonderful kids with personalities that shine. Life can’t get much better right now, that’s for sure.

Zoe’s Toddler Forecast: Sleeping

It’s been one full week since we’ve started Zoe on full underwear duty, and she’s done FABULOUS! We’ve only had two big accidents. The first one was my fault which ended up with me taking out the car seat and completely doing a huge cleaning. The second one was this evening. I lost track of time and when her potty watch went off and she did it. Then later, a poop. She is definitely getting used to going on the potty, but she still needs to be reminded. She hasn’t gotten it down completely yet where she can take herself to the potty, but it’s only been the first week.

I’m very very impressed with her. Zoe has been very easy to train so far. Caleb I thought was very easy, but Zoe is really making this a cinch. Go Zoe!

Her attitude and sass and decreased a little bit. Oh, she still has her moments, but she’s been very good as of late. Tonight was a little stressful. She wanted no part of dinner tonight. I told her she couldn’t eat her advent chocolates if she didn’t eat her chocolates. So decided at that moment to pitch a royal fit. So, put her in her room, let her do her thing and three minutes later, quiet as a baby bird. Put her back at the table and she ate. Amazing how that works. And, she got her chocolates! :)

Tonight was a late night for both kiddos. Jordan is out having fun with his Disciples Made guys, so I’m home with the kids alone. Both got to stay up as a special treat. Zoe went upstairs for a snuggle and to bed at around 8, but we didn’t finish snuggling until 8:30. Caleb went upstairs for his snuggle and bed at 9. Zoe was out in minutes and Caleb, I’m sure is asleep by now.

Here’s hoping that I get to sleep in for a little bit in the morning.

Our Little Darth Vader

Zoe’s Toddler Forecast: Sleeping

Well, I’m not exactly sure what happened to the devil child that I had a few weeks ago, but she’s gone. And I’m thankful! LOL.

It could be that I’ve kind of changed my thinking as well the last couple of weeks. At church, we had a sermon series called Constant Contact and one sermon was about allieviating the worry and start praying. The fill in the blanks was Ditch the Worry and Switch to Prayer. I’ve named it since then, the Ditch and Switch, and I’ve noticed a difference. I feel better about things, and I don’t unnecessarily worry about stuff that I really don’t need to worry about. My worries are given to God and I let him take control.

I’ve noticed it over the last week when we had our scare with Caleb. I felt calm and so collected. It could have been because we’ve been down that road before, but at the time, I was not really in the following stages of Christ. Being that my spiritual maturity has grown, I think God had a lot to do with that.

ANYWAY…I’ve just been dealing with her tantrums by putting her in her room to just cry. She’s not happy with any situation, so if she’s going to act that way, she takes it to her room. She has her moment, when she’s ready to stop she stops, and we bring her down. It’s working, I’m not stressed to the point of committing myself, and she’s getting the point. Her tantrums are short-lived and life has been pretty good as of late.

Thank God for the Ditch and Switch and me figuring out a way to deal with it.

Zoe’s Toddler Forecast: Watching a little TV while eating popcorn