I was watching Zoe ride her bike today before school and remembered the day she learned how to ride without training wheels…  one thought led to another and I started remembering all the little things that she has learned to do and for her sake, I want to take note of them.  I didn’t write it down, I have a simple scrapbook about her but I haven’t taken the time to go back and journal-so here is to journaling!

*slept through the night at 10 weeks

*first airplane ride with me to visit Aunt Kristie at 12 weeks

*started trying to hold her head up off the ground at 3 months

*first teeth at 3 months

*we learned of her terrible allergic reaction to vinyl when we fed her rice cereal for the first time.  The vinyl bib around her neck made her break out with a rash.  We thought it was the food until we tried a different food and realized it was the bib.  Still to this day, Zoe cannot play with vinyl.  When she does, she gets a rash all over and becomes very itchy. 

*learned how to crawl at 9 months

*learned how to walk at 13 months

*communicated with sign language until she was 2 1/2.  She knew so many signs and preferred them over verbal communication

*Potty trained at 19 months

*started Hands Full Preschool at 20 months

*started her playing with the girls in playgroup on Mondays 9-12 at age 21 months

*stopped sleeping in a crib on her 2 year old birthday

*Went to Ms. Holly’s preschool at age 3/4

*always loves to play house, sing and dance

*Started let’s play music at age 3 3/4 (it was supposed to be age 4 but she was so close!)

*learned how to swim at age 4 but was much better the next summer!

*stopped letting me dress her and fix her hair at age 4 (she has always had an opinion about it!  She would tug on her dresses and pull things out of her hair VERY EARLY!)

*learned how to ride her bike without training wheels at age 5 (the girls were over here to play for playgroup.  I got a wild hair and took off the training wheels and one by one, the girls got on it rode without the training wheels.  Yep, just like that.  They all did it!)

*Eagle’s Aerie age 4/5 years 2007/2008 (half day kindergarten)

*gave up sleeping with Mo at age 4

*Polytechnic elementary school age 5/6 years 2008/2009 (all day kindergarten)

*Started fixing her own food at age 5. She can do waffles, PB&J, cereal, and drinks.

*ears were pierced in December 2007 (just for a fun note, I was 5 when I had mine pierced too.  Tim wanted to wait to get her ears pierced so she could tell us when she was ready.  I wanted to have a cute little baby girl with pierced ears but that didn’t happen…)

I think I have been including significant changes in her life since age 5 so now we are caught up.  Wow, that was easy.  : )