I have a Boo Boo

On Monday, April 20th I got the scare of my life. During my last class of the day Zoe's school called and said that she had been hurt at school and needed to be taken to see a doctor. She fell out of her chair and stabbed her pencil into the palm of her hand.

I left school immediately and rushed her to the doctor's office. After many tears and lots of screaming she let the doctor see her hand. He cleaned her up and decided it was going to be just fine. He did put this awesome camo band-aid on it.

Everything turned out great in the end, but she did con her Grannie into letting me draw a blue mustache on her and she got to stay home from school on Tuesday. The things we do for our kids!!!

Scary, but nice.....

While getting ready to practice the violin yesterday, Zoe found a rolly polly on the floor.  She decided that she would pick it up and take it outside.  On her way to the door, the little bug rolled in her hand.  All in one solid motion she froze, screamed (horror movie style), dropped the bug, and ran sobbing straight into Daddy's arms.  It was such a traumatic experience that I bet people two streets over heard her.  She cried for a good 2 or 3 minutes.  Once we got her settled down just a bit, her Dad told her to just step on a bug in the future if it scared her. Immediately she started screaming and crying again saying, "but they are nice!  I don't want to hurt them." So sweet.  Scared to death, but not going to hurt them :)

But, I wanna be like....

A few weeks ago they took spring pictures at Tutu's school. She wanted to wear a dress just like her friend Rhea. So we went dress shopping. One afternoon after school we headed over to Target to get a new dress. She picked out 6 dresses, took me in the dressing room, and tried on every one of them. That is an amazing feet in itself...she HATES shopping. She picked her favorite dress and then we went over and picked out some sandals to match before we headed home.  Picture day was a few days later.  We got up and dressed in our new dress...which is adorable!! After we are all dressed it is time to fix her hair.  I thought it would be cute to just pull up some of the front of it and let her curls show, but when I told her my plans she had other ideas.  She said, 

"But MOM, I wanna be like Princess Leia!"

 That was funny too, because she HATES to have her hair brushed.  It is a daily chore, and I do mean chore.  But I fixed it like she wanted through the tears and screaming so it would be just like Princess Leia...here are some pictures.  The school pictures weren't all that cute, but these are priceless!

"Umm...I have a situation back here"

A recent trip to the toy store, evoked these words from the backseat, "Umm...I have a situation back here."  It was Grannie's birthday, but Zoe got the toy (this is the way it goes when Grannie is involved)!  This cute little Ice Cream Cone Shooter.   Ours is green.  You push the button on the side of the cone and the foam ice cream scoop shoots straight up in the air.  The scoop is attached to a string so that you can easily keep up with it when it is shot.  That being said, Zoe was in the back seat of the car playing with the shooter when the string conveniently wrapped itself around the barrette in her hair.  She very calmly let us know there was a situation before she began screaming her head off....She was trying to be brave anyway :) too cute!