At my moms, they were talking about how we missed Samantha and she needed to stay with us some. She said, "Oh, Nana, They have another kid."
She asks a lot about some big issues. One is angels. We went through that last Easter. It was rough, she spent weeks asking at bedtime about them and saying she did not want to be one. I tried to put her mind at ease without promising anything life might make me regret. Saying, you should have a long time to grow up and have babies. You need to make me a grandmother :) It must still be on her mind here and there. She was talking about having kids and me being a grandmother and told my mom, "Nana, you won't be here, you'll be died." And we never told her about my grandmother, waiting for her to ask, but recently she said something to papa about when he died he would get to see his mother again. As for angels, she has still been trying to wrap her mind around it. We talked one day about when you die you do not need your body anymore and it disintegrates. So she figured out that angels do not have brains and told that to a kid at school. She has also decided that when you become an angel your arms turn into wings and you grow new arms. I said that was interesting, why do you think that, why couldn't they just grow wings and keep the arms. And in a near recording of something I had said in the past, she basically told me that some things you can never know and everyone has to believe what is right for them, and she believed the arms turned into wings, but I did not have to.
Since she goes to a Catholic school, they were able to have a Happy Birthday Jesus party. At some point during the holiday, we talked about how not everyone is Christian. She recently was talking to Nick about how some people celebrate Happy Birthday Monica. It took me a second to realize she meant Hanukkah. I guess she put the two together and figured someone had to be having a birthday for it to be a holiday.
I love how when she does not know or remember the word, she will sometimes make up something logical or close. She was talking about Nick's belly button the other day and called it a button hole. She was sweeping the other day and called it brooming. And she called a nail file a nail scratcher thing.
I think my favorite part about all the stories is how when she learns what she said was silly, she loves it and wants to tell everyone. Always followed by, "Isn't that silly!" and lots of giggles.
She is progressing a lot on picking up words. My mom plays word bingo with her and she can find a lot of them without seeing them or having them spelled. I work with her a lot on sight words when we read. She has such a vocabulary and can express herself far beyond many 4 year olds. Her imagination is also amazing to watch. She makes up elaborate stories, songs, and games. What a blessing she is. Watch out world, I have faith that this girl will make an impact.
And most of the pictures lately were from the playstructure or stuff I already posted. But Zoey got to go to a baby party for mom's club. They played a lot. Zoey was the only girl and the only non walker. She was the youngest, but she kept up crawling efficiently and got into everything just as quickly as all the walking boys. She even climbed into a basket to get a doll.
We let them "paint" with baby food. Zoey thought it was just an annoying snack time and really tried to dig into the peas.
I did manage to get her to smear some around.
And then there were cupcakes. Zoey says yes please! She sampled it and was determined to get it all in her mouth. She even tried to eat the wrapper from the table. If the cupcake is this good, the wrapper must be delicious too. This was her first cupcake, but I figured why not. With Sam I probably would have said no, I guess second kids really do get it easier. I've been broken in :)
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