I am pretty sure that I have said this before–Zoë doesn’t really see the point of sleep. Well–let me reword that. She doesn’t see the point of going to sleep before she is ready. Hard to argue with that perspective; but as a mother who often longs for a quiet hour before her own bedtime, I want her to go to sleep at 8 like Noah does without any fuss. I know…but a mom can dream can’t she?
Zoë is getting more and more understandable in her talking. She has always been pretty verbal–it would be nearly impossible in our house not to be verbal as we rarely stop talking. There is always talking going on at our house–so if you want to participate you talk. Both kids learned this pretty early on and have always been talkers. Zoë’s latest thing to talk about is all the things she loves–we tell each other at our house “I love you” a lot. She walks around the babysitters all day singing “me love wowa, me love mommy, me love daddy, wowa loves me, mommy loves me, daddy loves me.” Repeats it all day long. Very cute isn’t she.
Well it is cute until you’ve been sitting in her room playing scrabble on your iPhone for 40 minutes with the following conversation every 5 minutes:
“Mommy?’
“yes.”
“Me love you.”
“I love you to.”
“Mommy?”
“Yes.”
“Me love daddy.”
“Daddy loves you too.”
“Mommy?”
“YES”
“Me love Wowa.”
“Noah loves you too.”
“Mommy?”
“YES”
“Me love you.”
“I love you too–go to sleep Zoë”
a brief pause
“Mommy?”
“YES”–half smiling, half ready to scream
“Me love kitty. Me love bubby (pacifier), Me love chocolate milk”
“Good-night Zoë”
Another pause
“Mommy?”
“yes”–at this point I am completely defeated by the two year old
“Me love you.”
I love you too baby.
She ended up sleeping with me in our bed. I certainly know how to show her who the boss is.
Embracing Imperfection 
Seriously adorable…amazing how early they learn to work it, huh…now if they would only retain that sweetness when they are teens, they’d certainly get much further in their arguments w/parents!
I’m holding out for the elusive “good sleeper” with baby #3…really I think I DESERVE one ‘sleep through the night child’ by the third one…in the meantime I just try to remind myself how large & empty my kind sized bed will feel when they think they’re too old to hop in it w/us, which always gives me a better perspective when the majority of my bed is being hogged by my sweet little rib kickers!
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