The thing I don't want to skip blogging are the Super Moments. I've vowed to keep a positive attitude with all this and Super Moments help me reflect back and focus on what's going well. So here are this week's super moments:
1) Zoey amazes me with her memory and ability to learn. I have no idea if she is actually ahead of where she should be in these areas, and in a lot of ways it doesn't matter. Scott and I are amazed and proud of her, and that's really what's most important. This week Zoey has added the spelling of her last name to her abilities. She is also now able to tell me our address when I ask her where she lives. We also just got her to tell us her birthday as well. This one took a little bit more work because she's been obsessed with birthdays since there were so many in July. However she wanted it to be her birthday and was resistant to the fact that her birthday is in November. Seems she is resigned to this fact because she will now tell us her birthday is November 5th. Lol! I think the thing that makes these accomplishments super to us is that they aren't the result of frequent trials and repetition. I've been able to tell her once and then she has it. We do some practicing just so she keeps the info, but it's not drill after drill. That's just a huge difference from back in April when we'd ask her what her name was or how old she was and she wasn't able to tell us. It took a lot of repetition and drills to teach those.
2) I know I say this every time, but Zoey is making leaps and bounds socially. We visited Zoey's Godparents on Saturday and for the first time she actually interacted with them and wasn't really shy or hesitant. She still needed a little bit more time to warm up to the kids, but by the time we left I think she had started to play more with Nick. She was also very upset when we left, which as much as I hate to see her cry sand I really hate the meltdowns, it shows me that she is connecting enough to not want to leave.
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| Zoey and Kristy (who by BTW is seriously the best Godmother ever) |
3) Sharing is also coming along better. Like with most kids, she has good days and bad days. But I know she understands the concept because I see it in her play. For instance, as I'm writing this she is playing with her zoo animals on the floor. She just had one of the animals tell the other one "I want to ride too " and the other animal said. "We can take turns ". She understands the concept and has the words, so now it's just about making sure she is using those skills in real life situations.
4) Zoey got her first invitation to birthday party that wasn't for family or a family friend. I asked her teacher and the invitation came from a little girl that Zoey plays with sometimes, so it wasn't an instance of everyone being invited. I would be happy either way, but it means more that the child decided to include Zoey rather than it being a situation where she was invited just because everyone was. I realize that for most parents, it wouldn't really matter, but it just is more evidence of how far Zoey is coming socially.
4) In JAM they are building up to a trip to the grocery store. Our trips to the grocery store have been pretty good since I started using the visual grocery list with her, but I still make her ride in the cart because if she's out of it she wants to take off. This weekend I took her to the store and the cart started to get way too full, so I reluctantly had her get out of the cart. She did really well and listened to me. Later in the week I had to go to Kroger to pick up a prescription and a few groceries. I got a cart, but let Zoey walk holding onto the cart. Again she did awesome and stayed with me for the most part. A couple of times she let go to move to a different said of the cart, but immediately held on again. I'm just hoping this trip with her JAM groups goes smoothly and doesn't throw any kinks in our well oiled grocery shopping machine.
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