Friday, October 25, 2013

"You can be a big pig too!"

Meat eating. It's a funny thing.

Chicken = chicken.

Piece of cake.

Sheep = mutton unless it's a baby and then its lamb. Cow = beef but again babies get special treatment.

Zoe can generally discern what type of animal she is eating although chicken vs. turkey gets confusing and any type of beef is just called, "MEAT."

About a month ago, Yannos asked if she wanted to eat some cow for dinner and she didn't even miss a beat.



But then she started saying we were going to eat up all sorts of animals.

"Eat the doggie up"

"Here, eat the zebra. Eat it"

The other day we went to a pig roast. I must be on a real Lion King kick because all I could think of was this...



Pork is by far her favorite thing to eat. It's her number one request for breakfast.

So I thought she'd be thrilled to have the most delicious pork ever from a pig roasted on a spit all day. Yes, complete with an apple in it's mouth!

But she just stood on a chair for an hour staring at the pig saying over and over again...



So true, little girl.





Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Outsmarted

I knew we were in trouble when I looked at the monitor after putting Zoe down for her nap and saw this...




It was pretty confusing since when I ask her to take her clothes off when trying to do anything useful like potty or get ready she says, "I CANNOT."

Yet, there she was. She managed just fine. Even her snap cloth diaper.

Grown-ups have a hard time unsnapping those things.

So I went in there to get her clothed again and then I saw the real kicker!


Just off camera, I found her "empty" laundry basket.




I don't think anyone is confused about what all that yellow was.

I asked her if the laundry basket was the right place to go pee pee and she totally outsmarted me by replying...




She wins again.




Wednesday, October 2, 2013

He was a good roach...

As Yannos pointed out, this was a pretty gentle way to introduce a 2-year-old to death.

Many of you will be happy to hear, we had a pet die: Our beloved cockroach, Bee.





So, we buried him in the garden...







mmmm, cockroach carrots!

Coincidentally, we had already talked about death last week. We were watching the Lion King when Zoe announced, "That lion sleeping!"

3-week postpartum tears poured down my face, while Simba snuggled under his dead father's paw and I sobbed, "No sweetheart. That lion died."





To which Zoe happily responded with...






She totally gets it.




(Don't worry, we still have Curly. Read about our pets here)


Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Looks like we made it!

You guys! I thought this would never happen. Zoe has decided that Greek school is not the devil!

We had a rough start with preschool. It looked like this.



Zoe was seriously traumatized.

I thought about pulling her out and trying again when I went back to work, but the whole point of bringing her all the way to Greek school is so she can actually learn Greek. And everyone knows that early exposure to a language is the best. So she stayed.

And she cried.

A lot.

But, she's turned a corner! She decided she "didn't want to cry at school" anymore. She decided she wanted to "be happy at school". She even decided that her teachers were "nice peoples".

For three weeks when I dropped her off I would say, "Can you say kalimera?"

Kalimera means good morning in Greek.

For three weeks I got this...



Then, last week I picked her up from school and she said she had fun. I asked her about her day and she said, "I do Greek."

We started talking about Halloween and her pink kitty cat costume. I asked her what she was going to say when she was a pink kitty cat. Expecting, "meow" or "trick or treat", but instead I got...




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