This is the last of a 4-post series:
December was an incredibly busy month for us, and yet, I feel as though we should have more pictures to show for it. I was particularly busy in scrambling to get two of Zoe’s Christmas presents made in time: a dollhouse and a knitted giraffe. I’m not sure I’d do that again; it didn’t leave a whole lot of time to do any actual work! Speaking of Christmas, she made out like a bandit. She was the lucky recipient of so many gifts, that she actually stopped opening presents (she had about 5 left unopened) and ran from room to room trying to figure out what to play with first. Now fast forward to the end of January, when I picked her up from school one day. She said to me, “Mom, can we go to the toy store? I don’t have enough toys.” Before I could respond, she pointed her index finger at me, furrowed her eyebrows and said, “And books are not toys.” Ugh!
She patiently awaits for Aunt Heather and Grandma Stout to arrive before she can open her presents. She amazingly did so with little complaint.
One of the best presents I found for her was this tree house tent. Every day she asked someone if they wanted to come to her tree house for a tea party. Aunt Heather was a willing participant, but it is amazingly spacious inside.
This was taken after I ran a half marathon up at Adidas North America HQ on an incredibly windy day. Now whenever I get ready to go for a run, Zoe asks me, “Are you going to run in a race?”
Zoe loves art. Stick anything, whether it’s a writing utensil, scrap pieces of paper, string, ribbon, whatever, and she’ll create something for you. At school she’s constantly asking her teachers if she can paint or draw. We were out eating breakfast one morning, when we realized that her drawing had evolved from scribbles and circles to actually adjoining shapes and lines to create a more complex image. It blew us away, and luckily she let us snap a photo.
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