Zoe’s Daily Funny:
When we were at the library this week Zoe found a Dora book and plopped down on a chair to read it. After rummaging through one of the shelves I found a Strawberry Shortcake book I though she might like.

Me: Zoe! I found a Strawberry Shortcake book!

She looks up from her book looking slightly annoyed at my interuption and goes…

Zoe: Mommy, I’m conshentrating. Don’t bother me.

 Pishaw! Concentrating my ass. Try to be nice to someone….jeeze. I WAS TRYING TO DO YOU A FAVOR BUT YOU CAN FOHGITABOUDIT!

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Have I mentioned that I love the library? If I could do 2 things in my life one would be to write children’s books and the second would be to open a children’s library. I love children’s books. If Zoe could have her way she’d ONLY sign out princess books. So when we go I make she gets a good mix. I told her we won’t buy her anymore princess books so I’m fine if she wants to borrow them from the library. I do tell her that there are lots of great books out there that have NOTHING to do with princesses.

Borrowed Books from last week:
The Little Mermaid
Everyone Knows What A Dragon Looks Like (mine)
Falling For Rapunzel (mine)
Grover Sleeps Over (mine)
Dora’s Easter Basket

She actually kept Falling for Rapunzel for another week. She thinks it’s funny. And she actually really enjoyed Grover Sleeps Over and asked me to read it a couple of times and then invited our friend Hans over for a sleep over. He politely declined. He’s 34 and has his own apartment thank you very much. I was actually interested in purchasing Everyone Knows What A Dragon Looks Like. The illustrations are beautiful. Of course, it’s Mercer Mayer. I think I may still buy it.


Borrowed this week:
Princess Tiana and the Royal Ball
Cinderella III
Ladybug Girl at the Beach (mine)
Royal Champions
How Much Is A Million? (mine)

I picked How Much Is A Million?. Zoe was bored. So was I. I picked it based solely on the illustrations. Wednesday night she made me read her one of her Tinkerbell books and begged for a 2nd book before we went to bed. So I picked Ladybug Girl At The Beach. She started whining and complaining because she wanted to read one the princess books she had picked at the library. I said no and that If she wanted a 2nd book it would have to be MY pick. So I read it to her and GUESS WHO LOVED IT?!? Whiner.  In the morning she was BEGGING me to read it to her. BEGGING! She now wants to read the entire series and she made me read it to her twice yesterday. Who’s your mama!?


{06.07.11} Our Family Stroll To The Library
 
        
                                        
 

Here’s a little trivia for you. Arnold Lobel is like only my favorite illustrator. Well him and Mercer Mayer. Anyways he passed away in the 80′s and most of his books are out of print. BUT did you know his daughter married the guy who played Larry in Perfect Strangers? He was Balki Bartokomous’ cousin. Remember?! Word to your motha.

Zoe’s Daily Funny:
I remember getting into the car about a month ago but before getting in I asked the hubs to go find my Spirited Away dvd (since Zoe likes Ponyo I thought she’d like this as well). Boy comes back to the car with Spirited Away AND his Transformers: The Movie dvd. Ok so let me make this clear, I LOVE Transformers, okay? I just don’t like this particular movie. The ONLY reason is because of the soundtrack (Go ahead. Click on the sample.). It’s like that 80′s music crap! Hearts On Fire? Omigod shoot me. The Touch? POISON TO MY EARS HELLO! Honestly the music makes me cringe. Zoe however was HOOKED. I mean HOOOOOOKED. She basically told me that this movie got bumped up as being her FAVORITE movie. She even said the words “more than my princess dvd’s.” WHA-WHA-WHAT?! I mean I never wanted a girly-girl and I was in denial for the longest time but I’m now used to it. Now that she’s showing some interest in anything that boys like I really don’t mind but I DO mind this movie because I HATEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE the music. Some of you guys make think maybe this movie  is a little too violent. You don’t know. She loves watch Tranformers: Revenge of the Fallen. I’ll say things like “I hate this music” and she’ll just sing back “Transformerssssssssssssssssssssssssss” in this little rock voice or she’ll respond “I like it. It’s cool.” Or her dad will chime in “Zoe you and I are cool cause we like this music and mommy has bad taste.” and Zoe’s all like “YEAH! Mommy’s not cool! This song is cool.” Girrrrl, I’m like a block of ice. I’m as cool as they come ya sassy punk child of mine.

So anyways we were at Dutch Wonderland over the Memorial Day weekend and we had just gotten done eating dinner. The hubs and Zoe wanted some ice cream. So we drove over to Friendly’s. The hubs parked the car and ran in while I stayed with the kids in the car. Zoe was in the backseat watching Transformers for like the BAJILLIONTH time. I thought “This is my chance! I need to hurry before the big one gets back!” So I turn around in my seat and look back and Zoe who is like TOTALLY into the movie…

Me: Zoe!
Zoe: Huh? (not even looking at me)
Me: Zoe, why do you like this movie so much?
Zoe: I don’t know. I just do. I just love it so much.
Me: Yeah I know but why? You don’t even really understand it all.
Zoe: I don’t know. I just like it.
Me: Yeah I know that but why?

Her eyes are glued to the monitor and she holds her palm out as to shush me and says…

Zoe: Mommy! Just calm down! Shhhh! I can’t hear the movie!

I have lost my little girl to the dark side. You have won this one Darth-Father. Whatever. I’m cool as a cucumber.

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{06.06.11}
So our goldfish that we got from Lila’s birthday party are STILL alive! I know. I don’t know why. They should be dead, no? I mean I just dropped one on the floor while cleaning the water and that was like a week ago. Anyhoots, since they’re still around I figured Zoe and I should come up with some names. We picked the perfect ones for them…
                                    

{06.09.11}
This morning before I went in the bathroom to take my shower Kayden was up. After I got these 2 passed out like this.
  

Zoe’s Daily Funny:
{So before I start let me just tell you that Zoe doesn’t understand Korean and my mother in law doesn’t understand English}
So on Sunday Zoe was running around the house in her Rapunzel costume while using her brother’s teething giraffe as a sword and the container for this as her protective helmet. I was in the living room holding Kayden and she’d run over to us and say such things like…

Zoe: You stay here and watch the baby while I go kill the bad guys ok?!
Me: Okay! Please be careful.
Zoe: Don’t worry. I’ll go kill the bad guys.

And the she’d charge into the kitchen and start wacking her grandmother in the butt with the giraffe while yelling “Die! Die! Die!” And I hear her grandmother lecturing her in Korean as she’s doing the dishes how she’s not supposed to do that to grandmothers. And Zoe’s running back towards us….

Zoe: I killed the bad guys for you!
Me: But Rapunzel, the bad guy is still alive! She’s doing dishes still. (Zoe looks over the dining room table at her victim who was clearly unphased by her treacherous attack)
Zoe: Ok. Stay here and protect our baby. I’m gonna go kill him again.
Me: Zoe let’s not..
Zoe: I’m not Zoe!
Me: *sigh* Rapunzel, let’s not say “kill”. Let’s say “knock him out” instead.
Zoe: But I just pretenting.
Me: I know but killing is still bad even when you’re pretending. Say “knock him out”.
Zoe: Lock him out.
Me: Knock him out.
Zoe: Lock him out.
Me: KNOCK him out.
Zoe: OK! I go kill him now!
Me: *sigh*

And then she runs off to her unsuspecting victim once more and starts jabbing and wacking at her grandmother behind and this time yelling “Die! Stop talking you’re dead! I killed you! Die! Die! Die!” while her grandmother is still lecturing her not to do that. She then runs back to where we are…

Zoe: I killed them for you!
Me: Zoe what did I say? Let’s not say kill.
Zoe: But I just pretenting.
Me: I know but it’s not nice. What are you supposed to say?
Zoe: I, I, I knocked her up for you!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…

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What a great dad… 
Hahaha I laughed reading this and wished he were my dad. My favorites are Ariel, King Triton, Snow White, The Toilet guy, and Batman with Boy Wonder. So cute. Here’s their blog. Even if that weren’t my school bus I’d make a friend on that bus so that they’d invite me to come over their house just so I could see this kid’s dad waving. I’m jealous. Haha.

To those of you with iPads…
Zoe loves these books. I got her “The Monster At The End Of This Book” because I read it when I was in Elementary school and I remember thinking it was hilarious. Then we found “Another Monster At The End Of This Book” by accident and she loves them both. I then accidentally found an app on iPad. It’s $4.99 but I thought it was so worth it. The app is great. Like when Grover ties the pages together or builds a brick wall you can touch the knots to untie them or poke the wall to make the bricks break. Sooo cute.

Zoe’s Daily Funny:
So Memorial Day weekend we took a family trip to Dutch Wonderland. Zoe’s been dying to go and the weather was nice and hot. On the last night we were eating out at a restaurant and Zoe had just gotten done eating dinner. She leaned over the table and said…

Zoe: Ahbah can I play your iPad?
Me: Zoe, what’s the magic word?

She thinks about it for a moment and says…

Zoe: Abracadabra.

She was dead serious. I started cracking up.

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I’ve been busy busy busy but I HAVE to post some of Kayden’s milestones before months pass by and I start an entry off with “3 months ago Kayden blah blah blah”.

AT 6 MONTHS:
{The Bottle} Kayden was trying to hold his own bottle. At first I really wanted him to. Every time we’d whip out the bottle we’d place his hands on it and firmly hold them there even if we could feel him try to pull away. However now that he’s trying to hold it on his own it can be a little annoying. For example he keeps dropping the bottle so you just end up holding it yourself but when he does drop it, and God forbid he drops it and it falls off to the side and he can’t reach it, he then tries to flip his body and gets all sorts of distracted and forgets he wanted the bottle in the first place. He’s a lot more high maintenance than Zoe. Like when I give him his bottle I have to tap the bottle to DISTRACT him from NOT drinking. Does that make sense? Otherwise he will get distracted just lying there and he’ll try to flip his body over. High Maintenance (I sang that part in my opera voice by the way)! He’s really cute though I must say. He’s drinking about 6 ounces still every 3 hours. We did bump him up to 7oz (still every 3hrs) last month but then he got sick for a bit and lost his appetite so now we’re trying to build it back up. We put him down to sleep at night around 9:30-10pm and then he wakes up for a bottle anywhere from 2:30-4ish and then conks out again till it’s time for us to get up for work.

{Teething} Don’t see anything yet but it does feel like he’s been teething forever! I believe the drool started since February. He has all of Zoe’s old teething toys but he doesn’t seem to like any of them. I put them in the freezer and give them to him and he couldn’t care less for them. So then I though “maybe it’s too cold for him?” So then I started to put them in the fridge instead and he still didn’t care for them. So ok! Fine Mr Picky-pants. I just gave them to him room temperature and he was basically like “I spit on these crappy teethers and I throw them on the floor! Sacre bleu!” I bought him this one from Nubby which kind of looks like a hand. He loved it. He was going at it for an hour where it was like GET A ROOM but then after an hour he got bored. “HIGH MAINTENANCE!” (sung in my beautiful opera voice once again). I just can’t please you fatty.

{Rolling & Sitting} He can now flip every which way, back to front, front to back. And now we’re trying to get him to try and sit more on his own.

{Solids} We just got the ok to start giving him solids. The hubs went out and bought all these jarred baby food and whole foods. I gave him corn & butternut squash. He started scrunching up his face and pushing it out with his tongue and then eventually he just stopped opening his mouth. High Maintenance (opera voice)! Then a few days later I gave him carrots. He threw up the 2 bites that I gave him plus 7ozs of milk. Lovely. I tried peaches the following week. He wasn’t having it.

Last thursday, as I was getting ready for work, Zoe asked me to play with her. She had her Ariel and Prince Eric figurines in her hand (most likely I was going to be assigned Eric). So I said…

Me: Zoe I can’t play with you right now. I have to get ready for work and then I have to go downstairs and make food for you.
Zoe: Can you play with me later?
Me: Ok if I finish everything on time.

So she played with her figurines by herself on our bed. Kayden had also just woken up and was lying at the head of our bed so I went over to him and started making clicking noises with my tongue to see if he’d smile for me (the whole night before he was feeling off with the whole ear infection and didn’t even crack a smile for us no matter how hard we tried). He turned his head towards me and smiled. Zoe then goes…

Zoe: You can play with Kayden but you can’t play with me?

She didn’t say it in a accusatory tone. Just said it like she would ask a regular question. But it caught me a little off-guard. Kids are so perceptive aren’t they? A little piece of my heart broke to hear her even ask me that or even think it. So I said…

Me: Awww Zoe, I’m not playing with Kayden either. I have to get ready for work but remember he was really sick and yesterday he didn’t even want to smile for his family because he was feeling so terrible so I was just checking to see if he would smile for mommy. Okay?
Zoe: Mmhmm…can I play the iPad?

And just like that, her 5 second attention span clicks in on the next subject.
I told my mom about this story and how it made me sad that she had even asked me something like that and she chuckled saying how Zoe was soooo much like me when I was little and she said I had asked the same question. She said she didn’t remember the situation but just remembers that I had asked something similar to that and she said it always stuck with her because she said she too had felt really bad.

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So Zoe can spell 2 things.

She learned it from watching Ponyo. I didn’t teach her this.

This is the video I spoke about a few days ago. Zoe and I had just finished reading a bedtime story and I had just shut off the lights. So the video is black but you can hear us talking. Sometimes when she starts a sentence I know it may get interesting so I’ll tell her to wait while I go get my camera and then I’ll always ask her to repeat herself. You can follow along to with what we say below.

What did you say Zoe?
I said nobody would, woulda, I said nobody can take you
Why?
Cause I love you
You love me?
Yeah
I love you
I won’t let I won’t let anybody take you away
Away from where
Away from our house
Alright
And I won’t let monsters or ghoses never take you away
You won’t let monsters or what?
Or ghoses, or bugs, or antses won’t get you
Or ants?
Yeah
Alright, you’re gonna protect me?
Yeah
Alright
Ahbah will save us
Ahbah’s gonna save us? I thought you said you were gonna protect me?
Ahba’s gonna save us and nobody will take us
Alright
Ok?
Ok
And he’s strong he won’t get anybody get if there’s monsters or ghoses he won’t save.
if there’s monsters or ghoses?
Yeah
Oh ok
So we can’t near those right?
What?
We can’t near those
we can’t near those?
Yeah
Yeah we can’t be near those
Cause then they’re gonna bite you
Yeah
They, they’re mean right?
Yeah
They’re mean and they could bite you
Yeah but ahpah’s gonna protect us right?
Yeah
Alright
He’s strong right?
Yeah
And he thought he would, he would he, he’s gonna talk to them right?
What’s he gonna say to them?
He gonna say “Don’t talk on mommy and daddy! Why you getting them, why?”
And then what are the monsters gonna say?
They’re gonna say “*gasp* You’re so bigger than mommy!”
Uh huh and then?
Then he’s gonna be strong to !&($@^($*#&(^)^^&*(&(&(
What?
He’s gonna be strong to kill monsters &(&_&^*%%(*(^*(
What?
He’s gonna be strong to carry m and m’s
He’s gonna be strong to carry m and m’s?
Yeah
Oh. Are you talking about candy?
(nodding)
Oh
I just talking about ahbah
Oh ok
He’s strong to carry a lot of m and m’s
Yeah he is strong to carry a lot of m and m’s.
Like bon bon’s or…
Bon bon’s or…
Or fruit snacks…
Fruit snacks…
Or um lollipops…
Yeah
Or sugar…
Sugar?
Yeah
Yeah
And pocksickles…
Pocksickles?
Uh huh
I love pocksicles
You could taste, you could taste some my pocksickle
Tomorrow?
Yeah
Thanks Zoe
I will share it
You’ll gonna share it with me?
I’m gonna share it with all my families
With all your families?
That’s very nice of you
I’m gonna buy it for all my cousins
You’re gonna buy popsicles for all our cousins?
Yeah
Do you have money?
Yeah…nope!
How you gonna buy it if you don’t have money?
I’m gonna, I’m gonna pick one and ahbah, ahbah’s gonna make money
Ahbah’s gonna make money?
Yeah
He’s gonna buy it for you?
Mmmhmm
Alright
And I’m gonna carry it
Ok
And one for Isabella unnie, and Hannah unnie, and Josie unnie, and Ellis, and um who else?
Owen?
Owen, Kayla
Owen and Kayla that’s all your cousins
Yeah and Josie unnie
Oh yeah and Josie unnie
Ellis
You already said ellis
Yeah
Yeah. Oh is that it?
Mmhmm
Alright

Zoe’s Daily Funny:
Yesterday the hubs was going to run out to do some grocery shopping. He goes…

Curly: Zoe, do you want to go out with me?
Zoe: Are you gonnna buy me a new toy?

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Oy vey. So yesterday afternoon I called the hubs (who stayed home with Kayden) to see how Kayden was doing. He said he only drank about 5 oz all day since like 6am. So I decided to call the doctor’s office. We went in for a 4:30 and it turns out that lil fatty has an ear infection. Zoe NEVER had one. Well I remember the doctor checking her ear once and saying “ You know she had an ear infection but it’s almost done healing?” We didn’t know because she wasn’t really fussy. But other than that nothing. So this is a new illness for me. God it never ends with these kids.  So he’s pretty much stopped eating as well which probably means that fat baby Keira may catch up to Kayden in weight in our “whose baby is fatter” competition that I have going with Angie. DAMNIT! Hahaha. He also gave us the ok to give K ibuprofen. YAY! The hubs and I think Tylenol sucks. Motrin worked so well with Zoe whenever she would get a temperature. We gave him some amoxicillin before going to bed. He hated it. Shocking. I swear if this kid could talk he’d be cursing his head off at us. Hahaha… I need to videotape his I-hate-this-friggin-medicine face.

{05.09.11} Kayden’s Hanbok
My mil just got back from Korea and brought back Kayden’s Hanbok to wear for his Dohl. It’s gorgeous and I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the colors. However it is like for a 4yr old. Haha…
 

Zoe’s Daily Funny:
Last night I had just finished reading Zoe a bedtime story and had turned off the lights. I always say “Hey, what about my good night bohboh (kiss)?” And then she always finds my face and kisses me. Last night I forgot to ask and she turns to me in the dark and kisses me on my cheek and says…

Zoe: I love you.
Me: I love you too. Zoe why do you love me?

Then she cups my face in her hands and says…

Zoe: I won’t let anyone take you away.
Me: Like who?
Zoe: Like monsters, and ghoses (ghosts), and bugs, and ants.

Alrighty then. I actually recorded the conversation. I’ll see if I can post it later.

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The husband requested that I NOT post a photo of his fluffy do. Hahaha He cracks me up. Yesterday he came home and he was telling me about his boss, Dan, who sits right next to him. He’s like the type of guy you can shoot the shit with. He said that Dan told him he couldn’t look at him and if he did he felt nauseous. Hahahahaha. A man perm will do that to those around you. My husband also told me the most random thing. It was sunday evening and he was in the kitchen and I was sitting at the dining room table and just out of the blue he blurts out…

Hubs: You know when I was in 6th grade the teacher asked everyone what they wanted to be when they grew up and I told her I wanted to be a porn star.

Sorry your childhood dream didn’t come true. Maybe in your next life Curly. RANDOM.

Today I am SUPER tired. Apparently Kayden was really fussy yesterday afternoon at school. The last full bottle he had was at 10:30am and by the time I picked him up at around 5:30 he only had about an ounce since. I heard him crying the second I walked into the school. He saw me and he started to do this cry-laugh thing. By 9:30 at night he had a temperature of over 102. We gave him some generic acetaminophin and he was gagging and crying cause he hated it so much and kept dry heaving. Omigod he’s so dramatic. I remember Zoe loved medicine! The only medicine she took that she hated was cherratussin. He went back down to sleep after drinking only a few ounces. By 12:30 he was up again and fussy. I checked his temp again and now it was at 102.6 but it was still too early to give him a 2nd dose so I just got a wet towel to cool him down and he hated that too. I can’t go to sleep knowing that one of my kids are burning up so I stayed up till 3:30 so that I could give him some more medicine. After that was all done at 3:40 I decided to move into Zoe’s room and sleep with her to get a full 2 1/2 hours of sleep before waking up for work. She kept crying out in her sleep like she was dreaming about something bad so I just kep caressing her arms and holding her hand so she knew I was with her and that she didn’t have to be scared and that seemed to help her fall back into a deep sleep. Man, my life sucks. Haha.

{05.12.11} Fluff
So we saw Despicable Me many many times already and I thought it would be nice to get Zoe a unicorn so I started hunting. They sell the unicorn doll that Gru won for Agnes but I didn’t think it looked that cute. Dude when hunting for a unicorn doll I’m telling you, it’s slim pickings. So the closest thing to being cute was the Luvvies brand. So I surprised her and gave it to her. I was surprised at just HOW MUCH she loved it. She named him Fluff and was automatically bumped up to her VIP entourage. He goes EVERYWHERE Pink and Blue go. It’s the 3 of them now. She now wants a mermaid, a non-Ariel one.
                                        

Zoe’s Daily Funny:
The hubs went out and decided to get a hair cut………..and a perm. (Don’t laugh. He said he needed some “body.”)

Here are the reactions he got from his supportive family:
His mother: You ruined your face.
Me: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA you look like an ajuhmah
Kayden: (could not care less and was more interested in his fist)
Zoe’s: It’s ugly.

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Yesterday the hubs and I were hanging out in the dining room when Zoe woke up from her nap. We heard footsteps above us and then we heard her bawling which was unusual. So I ran up and opened her door and she was right on the other side of it. I sat in her chair and held her as she continued to cry on my shoulder. I asked her what was wrong and she was struggling to talk since she was still crying. After I calmed her down I asked her again…

Zoe: I woke up and I was all by myself and then I went to the door and I couldn’t open it. So I cried because of that.

I was surprised at how upset she was. It’s like so small to an adult but it’s like the end of the world to a toddler. I think she couldn’t open the door because her palms were sweaty and it was slippery so I promised her I would never close her door again and that I would leave it open a crack.

{05.15.11}
Price of Pocahontas & John Smith doll………………………………………………………………….$20.00.
Price to see a smile on Zoe’s face even though you bribed her to go out with you….Priceless.

  Daddy’s such a sucker.

I know this is late but oh well. Happy belated Mother’s Day to all the wonderful mothers out there!

{05.08.11} Mother’s Day
Woke up Sunday morning and took a nice stroll to the diner in our neighborhood for breakfast.
          
 

Later the hubs and Zoe gave me a card. Zoe took all the credit for the card and the money the hubs threw in for me to go shopping.



I’m pretty sure the husband helped with the drawing.