"fwush it down"

With swings in sight, she was off...
Another beautiful day here, even with the wind that could knock you down. Today was our day off from everything, no daycare, no speech therapy, no where to be. So we ventured out after some TV and hangin out time, and went to the "wings" (swings, said with the ending "s" sucked in, it's hard to do, Zoe does it, we are working on blowing it out, in speech therapy and everywhere else). I don't know if it was me, or what but the day seemed to drag on today. Probably just not having to be anywhere made it that way. It may also have something to do with the fact that Zoe woke up at 4am to tell me she had a pee in her diaper and wanted to "flush it down the toilet"....oh boy, try and explain how that can't happen to a 3yr old who is eager to get it right. There were some tears, but she settled for flushing the water down, as I attempted to shake off a drop of absorbed pee from her diaper. I know, some are thinking gross, but you do what you gotta do to get your child to want use and understand the potty. I can see her logic, we do it with poops, so why not with pee. She's got a lot of ?'s about this stuff. And wants to figure it all out. After reading a couple of potty books that she pours over daily, over and over. She finally went back to sleep. That was great, only now I couldn't sleep, it's what I do, I fret about how I can help her understand what's going on, what and if I can do differently to help her, and so on and so on. I said some prayers for some friends that really need them, and finally fell asleep, as Al's alarm went off. Next thing I woke up to was Zoe's sweet face, saying "dood mornin' mommy", and "poops in diapew, yet's fwush it down"...so you can see, this girl has a very firm grip on what she wants and is thinking about 24/7, so that is how our days and nights go right now. We are thrilled that she is recognizing her bodily functions and telling us. We are on our way.
From watching the olympics & Bambi 2 (Zoe's new fav.), going to the swings with wind literally at our backs, playing games on nick jr., grocery shopping (where Zoe snagged an apple while I was bagging apples, and took a bite before I saw her...so up to the till, we bought her the bitten apple, and carried on), bingo bopping, and playing play-doh (where we had slight battle over mine and Zoe's version of sharing/playing together), we were both tired and looking forward to bedtime (Zoe's that is, I stay up wayyyyy too late, no wonder I'm tired)....we had a lot of great moments too, like playing hide and seek in the park by hiding behind the trees, and Zoe taking us up in the sky in the 'helitopter', finding a peculiar looking acorn that Zoe said she wanted to show Daddy, bopping the alphabet out loud, and having a great time making funny noises and faces at the supper table with Al....all and all it was a good day.