Our Bumble Bee
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Monday, October 29, 2007
A Decision
We need to make a decision soon about whether or not to change Zoe's daycare provider. I put her on the wait-list at a Luthern church daycare 2 years ago and they've told me they will have a spot for her in January. This is one of the best daycares in the area (clearly, if the wait is 2 years) so I know it will most likely be a good change. The problem is I love her current teacher. I know that in the spring Zoe will be switching out of the young toddler class anyway; but, I feel like she's been very well taken care of in her class and that the staff at her current location is very nuturing. I don't even watch the webcam anymore since I know she's fine.
The huge plus of the church daycare is that it will be 5 minutes from the house and 2 minutes from my office and assigned schools. Right now I'm driving Zoe 20 minutes to daycare and then, on the days I don't have meetings at a school near the daycare, I'm turning around and hurrying back another 15 minutes in my original direction to get to work on time. Eric's school is closer, but we can never seem to get Zoe up and ready by the time he needs to leave to get to work. I'm torn on the religious aspect of the church daycare as well. I am not a religious person. I think religion is great if it keeps people from doing bad things that, for not the fear of eternal damnation, they would be doing....but I'm a person who really wanted the Darwin fish magnet on the back of my car in college.
However, I can conceed that I could be wrong. With that in mind we're having Zoe baptized in December (although at my mom's house by the minister who married us instead of in a church). I also guess I like the idea of "Jesus time" (on the daily schedule) so that she gets exposed to religion and can make her own informed decisions when she's older. Still...I'm sad about pulling her from her current place and know that she's going to go through yet another transition in January if we do. I hate to get back to the place where she's crying every time I drop her off.
The huge plus of the church daycare is that it will be 5 minutes from the house and 2 minutes from my office and assigned schools. Right now I'm driving Zoe 20 minutes to daycare and then, on the days I don't have meetings at a school near the daycare, I'm turning around and hurrying back another 15 minutes in my original direction to get to work on time. Eric's school is closer, but we can never seem to get Zoe up and ready by the time he needs to leave to get to work. I'm torn on the religious aspect of the church daycare as well. I am not a religious person. I think religion is great if it keeps people from doing bad things that, for not the fear of eternal damnation, they would be doing....but I'm a person who really wanted the Darwin fish magnet on the back of my car in college.
However, I can conceed that I could be wrong. With that in mind we're having Zoe baptized in December (although at my mom's house by the minister who married us instead of in a church). I also guess I like the idea of "Jesus time" (on the daily schedule) so that she gets exposed to religion and can make her own informed decisions when she's older. Still...I'm sad about pulling her from her current place and know that she's going to go through yet another transition in January if we do. I hate to get back to the place where she's crying every time I drop her off.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
First Football Game at Indiana University
My two fans
Going to the game
Checking out the flowers on campus
In front of Showalter Fountain at IUZoe did great on her first trip after coming home. She slept on the plane ride there, let us enjoy the ENTIRE football game without much complaint (even clapping with the fans), and slept like an angel at night (in the king bed with us). The flight home was a bit trickier but by that time she deserved a bit of restlessness. It was wonderful to be back on campus and spend time with friends who live in Indy.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Weekend Pictures from Petting Zoo/Pumpkinville
What are these??
Hanging out in the hay
Look, a goat!
This seems like a really big apple!
Friday, October 12, 2007
A Week in Review...
Wow, these weeks are flying past. The weather has finally turned colder here so Eric is excited. It feels like real football weather now. Poor Zoe was sick again this week. She was having some tummy trouble so she got to stay with grandma for a couple days. I know she had a great time! My mom and Ed had come over on Monday to watch Zoe so Eric and I could have a much needed date. Zoe was so excited to see my mom. I think her stranger anxiety is now completely gone as she even went willingly to the contractor who came to the house to give us an estimate on some granite. It definitely makes leaving her easier since she happily goes with someone else now.
For the past week or so I noticed that Zoe was doing things that looked liked signs. I asked her teacher and sure enough they have been working on them with the class. I had thought that Zoe was just showing me her mouth but turns out she was saying she was hungry. Oops :) She also knows the signs for more, please, and thank you (I think that's the one that looks like she's blowing kisses). Tonight she did the sign for drink..and since I finally clued in I was able to get her what she wanted. She's also added "baby" and what sounds like "bear" to her verbal words. We read "Going on a Bear Hunt" like three times a day so it wouldn't surprise me. There is a dog in the book that looks like Herman that she or I point out on every page so what sounds like "bear" is usually directed at Herman. Unfortunately Zoe had a bit of an accident today. Her walking has gotten so much better, even in shoes. She did take a bit of a spill today and got a cut on her lip, poor baby. Between being sick and her little accident she crashed tonight at 7pm. I have a feeling one of us is going to be up at 4am :)
For the past week or so I noticed that Zoe was doing things that looked liked signs. I asked her teacher and sure enough they have been working on them with the class. I had thought that Zoe was just showing me her mouth but turns out she was saying she was hungry. Oops :) She also knows the signs for more, please, and thank you (I think that's the one that looks like she's blowing kisses). Tonight she did the sign for drink..and since I finally clued in I was able to get her what she wanted. She's also added "baby" and what sounds like "bear" to her verbal words. We read "Going on a Bear Hunt" like three times a day so it wouldn't surprise me. There is a dog in the book that looks like Herman that she or I point out on every page so what sounds like "bear" is usually directed at Herman. Unfortunately Zoe had a bit of an accident today. Her walking has gotten so much better, even in shoes. She did take a bit of a spill today and got a cut on her lip, poor baby. Between being sick and her little accident she crashed tonight at 7pm. I have a feeling one of us is going to be up at 4am :)
Friday, October 5, 2007
If you want to find something....
Post that you have lost it!
We found our camera so we can finally take pictures of Zoe's first walking attempts. She saw these pictures in the digital camera monitor and proceeded to give herself countless kisses :) Can't say she doesn' t have a healthy self-esteem!
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Uh Oh!
Uh Oh is Zoe's word of the week :) She's been saying it for a couple months but now she's added hand gestures so it's adorable as in "Uh Oh (shoulders shrugged, palms up)". It's a very fitting word as in "Uh Oh, Mommy and Daddy lost their digital camera and therefore haven't taken any pictures of me in a month!". We have no idea where the camera went to, we're hoping it wasn't stolen during our Open House. The Gods must have been smiling on me though because even though we had a memory card from China and Zoe's birthday in the camera, I had finally uploaded all the pictures to the computer so we lost nothing. Thank Goodness. I'd be beside myself if those pictures from China and Zoe's first few months were lost. We need to get another one before our trip to Indiana for the IU/PSU football game. We need to document Zoe's first football game. In case you're wondering, she's rooting for IU. They are playing better than Penn State this year anyway :) I can't wait to take her to the bookstore on campus and get her outfited. It's, of course, my dream that she'll want to go to school there when she's older...but if it is like it was when I was there then there is not much of an Asian population. I'm sure my parents hoped we'd all go to Illinois but that didn't work out for them either (although Kathy would have gone there had she lived).
Not much has been going on this week. I was so sick on Thursday/Friday that I had to take off of work but send Zoe to daycare since there was no way I could have cared for her. She's not one to let me use the restroom by myself and let's just say I needed to use the restroom by myself :) It was either food poisoning or the stomach flu but either way taste aversion has kicked in to the last thing I ate before getting sick so Starbucks is not completely banished from my life. I can't even look at the sign. For insight into how parenting is going for us at times, Eric actually said as I was sick, "You know I'll kill you if you're pregnant, right?" I think Zoe may be an only child. She's the little love of our lives, but boy this is work :) She's as active as ever, loving to take her steps (still not a great walker but getting better each day), and climbing up the stairs and generally everything else in her path. She's got the body builder thing going as she's power squatting down to pick up heavy (for her) objects and then attempting to walk them over to us. I don't think she realizes that she has to learn to balance just herself first for walking before she can balance with other items. She keeps us busy with constantly wanting to be read to. I've had to wedge the books into the shelves to keep her from getting them all the time. She takes one out, brings it to us, claps her hands so we'll read it, climbs in our laps for the story and then goes to get another one. Over and over. Over and over. I know more stories by heart now. I hope she continues her love of books but there are only so many times you can read them! (as I told this story to my friend who has grown children he proceeded to recite from memory stories he read to his kids 20 years ago)
Oh, one last thing. Zoe stopped crying when I drop her off at daycare. She willingly goes to Miss Cindy's arms and waves bye-bye to me(she also says Bye with a southern drawl). For all the guilt I felt when she cried..at least I didn't have the "Don't you love me anymore?" feeling :)
Not much has been going on this week. I was so sick on Thursday/Friday that I had to take off of work but send Zoe to daycare since there was no way I could have cared for her. She's not one to let me use the restroom by myself and let's just say I needed to use the restroom by myself :) It was either food poisoning or the stomach flu but either way taste aversion has kicked in to the last thing I ate before getting sick so Starbucks is not completely banished from my life. I can't even look at the sign. For insight into how parenting is going for us at times, Eric actually said as I was sick, "You know I'll kill you if you're pregnant, right?" I think Zoe may be an only child. She's the little love of our lives, but boy this is work :) She's as active as ever, loving to take her steps (still not a great walker but getting better each day), and climbing up the stairs and generally everything else in her path. She's got the body builder thing going as she's power squatting down to pick up heavy (for her) objects and then attempting to walk them over to us. I don't think she realizes that she has to learn to balance just herself first for walking before she can balance with other items. She keeps us busy with constantly wanting to be read to. I've had to wedge the books into the shelves to keep her from getting them all the time. She takes one out, brings it to us, claps her hands so we'll read it, climbs in our laps for the story and then goes to get another one. Over and over. Over and over. I know more stories by heart now. I hope she continues her love of books but there are only so many times you can read them! (as I told this story to my friend who has grown children he proceeded to recite from memory stories he read to his kids 20 years ago)
Oh, one last thing. Zoe stopped crying when I drop her off at daycare. She willingly goes to Miss Cindy's arms and waves bye-bye to me(she also says Bye with a southern drawl). For all the guilt I felt when she cried..at least I didn't have the "Don't you love me anymore?" feeling :)
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