July 27, 2004
Tuesday morning,
Tuesday morning, less than 5 weeks left before Zoe enters the big world of going to school. She couldn't be more excited and she doesn't even know what it is all about. For her mostly seeing friends everyday will be making her happy. She always wants to see friends and talks to just about any kid at the park, she could care less that they are 5 years older than her, all she wants is to make friends. I'm the total opposite! LOL! So this weekend we went shopping with the official school list and bought everything mentionned on it, we were warned to buy exactly what's on the list. I find it lame as they sure didn't take all the cheapest necessities and I'm sure some parents will be buying the cheaper versions of a few items. Now I have the lovely job of writting Zoe's name on each and every crayon and item we bought. Yes, even on every single Crayola wax crayon. Ugh!
So Miss Zoe is entering kindergarden, time sure flies once they hit school. If I could I'd bottle up the kids and keep them at the age they are right now. It's going to be hard to get up every day and have a morning routine. ACK! Then there's the sick days she'll miss or the dentist/doctor's appt to take while she has a day off. No more spur of the moment days where we just take off to no where. Sure Lucas will still be home but the kindergarden schedule is so weird, we'll almost never have time to do much before having to get Zoe for lunch time or after school.
Signs that time is flying by, Zoe's first tooth is wiggling and it freaked her out! LOL! We were eating corn on the cob and she bursted into tears, saying she didn't do it on purpose. I couldn't figure out what she was talking about and then both my mom and I just started laughing. I quickly googled for the tooth fairy and we reassured her that all would be ok. Luckily another 5 year old girl we know lost her tooth and her mom blogged all about it so I rushed over to her blog and showed Zoe. She was smiling and all was fine, she never did finish her corn though.
The next day I rushed to the bookstore to find her a book that would reassure her and would cultivate the tooth fairy magic. I chose the Dear Tooth Fairy book by Alan Durant, it is a gorgeous book with little envelopes on the pages with special notes from the tooth fairy. By the end of our story time we even got to receive a special tooth fairy coin. I could not recommend this book enough, the images in it are terrific and the story is wonderful. Oh and YES obviously we do believe in the tooth fairy, just like we believe in Santa Claus. I like magic and to see kids eyes light up over magic is fun. 
Over the weekend we rented the movie 50 First Dates. What a fun movie, sure there are some things I would have wished not seeing, like an event that happens in the 1st minute of the movie of so that involves a big mammal but other than that it was a great movie to see. It made me wonder how I would deal with such a situation, sure it's a movie but to have someone try to make you fall in love with them every day is cute. It also made me think about what would I change in my life if I had only one year to live (no this doesn't have anything to do with the movie). Is there people I would exclude from my life for those last few months, would I be different in my way to live day to day life!?
Still working on the baby hat for my neighbor. Also searched for some cute booties online and found a few models. Should start on those asap too, want to try to get those done before she actually goes into labor.
hugs,