Wonder Zooey!

For those of you who may not know, Wonder Woman was my childhood hero.

I truly believed in her and her amazing powers, watched the TV show religiously (probably inappropriate for a 3 yr old), had her action figure, and was devastated to find out on my 4th birthday that Wonder Woman was, in fact, not real. I still have not forgiven the spiteful girl who crushed my spirit at such a tender age.  

Anyways, I give this background to explain that soon after I found out I was pregnant, before we even knew we were having a girl (!), my sister Ellen went and bought this Wonder Woman costume, just in case!

It seemed huge at the time (size: 18m) but now FINALLY fits her. 

I present:

Wonder Zooey!!!!

Mission: climb into laundry basket and create chaos

  pausing to make sure she still looks good 

no invisible plane but a horse will do just fine, thank you.

Hard work, being a superhero

small spaces

goofball!

It's not easy being green...

Scenes from a day in Zooey's life....

Like much of the world, Zooey has come to appreciate the acoustics of the household bathroom - 

Zooey has discovered the joys of singing in the shower:

She also likes to make important phone calls:

[Jennie: I bet daddy wasn't expecting this kind of attitude for at 

least another 10 years...]

Zooey's new friend Pororo!

Zooey taking her diaper to the diaper pail

(wearing her old man pants!! :D)

Zooey and Pororo

(impressive hair, no?)

Land of the Lilliputs

Zooey's search for 

little furniture that she can fit in...

Ikea

REI

Land of Nod 

(ok, this place is specifically FOR little kids)

Costco

I'm a BIG girl!

When we went shopping for a bike seat, Zooey

spotted this lovely pink and white number and immediately wanted to get on 

(again, girly-girl!! AND the bike even matches her outfit!)

Notice her feet don't even reach the pedals.  

I had to push her around the bike display over and

over and over and over and......you get the picture.  And oh, the screaming

when we eventually pried her off of the bike. Quelle horreur! 

Mother's Day

Mother's Day flower!

Mother's Day Kiss!

 open-mouth and juicy!

 "OK, that's enough!!"

Zooey's first bike ride!!

Shortly before we left for Three Rivers, we bought a bike 

seat for Zooey.  When we tried to put the helmut on in the store, she SCREAMED and refused, but magically, when in the bike seat,

no complaints!  She LOVES riding the bike and asks for "MORE!"

And so it begins....

Much to Chuck's dismay, Zooey is displaying signs of being a girly-girl.  

She's already shown her love for bags (and the more $$, the better - 

seriously, she will always choose the more $$ one!! uh oh!)

While she'll walk around the 

house in Chuck's shoes, she shows a clear preference

for my heels, the shinier, the better.  

One night, while avoiding bedtime, she asked to put

on this new pair of yellow mary janes, sent by Uncle Pete

all the way from Korea.  

They're clearly too big for her, but she LOVED them,

walked/tripped around admiring her feet, and refused to

take them off to go to sleep

She went to sleep with a different pair of shoes on for the next three nights!

long time no see.....oops!

Hi everyone!

Sorry for the lack of posts - we were away for two weeks 

in Three Rivers again and after coming back, 

it's been hard to catch up, especially when the little girl 

 [yes, girl, not baby anymore :( :( :( ]

refuses to stay still for some good shots.

Zooey has grown a LOT over the last month+, it's really amazing

and so much fun to see how much her brain is processing these days.

You can literally see the wheels turning in her head as she

tries to absorb everything around her.  Of course this means

she is much more vocal about expressing her emotions, 

both the good and the bad, and we've had (just a few) screaming

tantrums already....that's when we wonder what the 

terrible twos will bring...

Anyways, we will update over the next few days.  Here are just a few pictures 

showing Zooey's newfound discovery of stickers...