Sunday, March 27, 2011

A few of her favorite things

"Zoe has a strong personality," they tell us at her daycare. Needless to say, we are not strangers to strong personalities here in the Orglet household. Zoe seems to share a certain, shall we say, intensity, with her brother, and yet the objects of her affection are quite different.

Zoe loves giving kisses - especially to her brother during bath time. Zoe loves her piggy and her baby doll, both of which she has clearly named "Uh-oh!" for reasons we don't entirely understand. She loves to give them kisses, and to have them give kisses to each other. Zoe loves trains, and yells, "ooo! ooo!" (rhymes with "choo-choo," of course) whenever she sees one. When she plays with them, it generally involves giving them kisses.

Zoe loves food. She yells, "Tato! Tato!" whenever she sees a potato, orange, onion, or avocado, because they all fall into the category of "sort of round things that live in a bowl on the kitchen counter." She has noticed that we often blow on her food to cool it down. Now she blows on things to indicate her interest in eating them.

Zoe loves footwear, which she is now quite capable at removing and working hard on putting on by herself.

The recurring theme in Zoe's favorite activities is reciprocity. She absolutely adores giving us her favorite things (dolls, shoes, food, kisses), and then taking them back from us. Ad nauseam. This is accompanied by a constant refrain of "Da! Da!" ("give" in Portuguese).

Most of all, Zoe loves balls. If she sees one, she yells, with truly remarkable enthusiasm and volume, "BAAALL! BAAALL! BAAALL!" and doesn't stop until she has it in her possession. She hugs them, she kicks them, she drops them. Most of all, she loves rolling them back and forth with us, and taking them for walks.

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Sunday, March 6, 2011

That Orglet look

It seems a week doesn't go by without someone declaring that Zoe is a "fotocópia" of Mike (and then asking me how to say fotocópia in English.) It's true that sometimes when I see her from a certain angle, Zoe looks just like Owen to me. And of course, people have always said that Owen resembles Mike. But I've been holding onto a glimmer of hope that some of my genes made it through this time...



Mike

Megan

Owen

Zoe

... no?