Zora Jane Zora Jane

much too cool for seventh grade.  No one's cooler than Zora Jane.  ZORA JANE!

That's Zora's theme song--it a take on the Pepper Ann theme song from back in the day.  Go a head and look it up on YouTube, I'll wait.

Back?

Ok, so Zora is a character.  She is super smart (as all moms say about their kids, but really she is), full of sass and naughtiness, but is super sweet and simply beautiful to cover it.  Also she thinks she's 10.  

She also LOVES stuffed animals.  We went to IKEA for free lunch one day and she saw this dog and carried it around the entire store.  At lunch she insisted on touching it at all time and refused to let it sit beside her.  The tantrum when she had to leave the dog behind was mind blowing.

 She has Daddy wrapped around her little finger and he openly admits she is the favorite, mostly because, for the most part, she's pretty obedient.  But this looks more like Dad is being the obedient one to me.

 She the naugthiness level with this one?  She learned how to climb in the sink, turn it on and use everyone else's tooth brushes.  Yuck.

 She insisted on having a stuffed animal while grocery shopping one day so then Henry had to have one too and I quickly ran out of room for my food.

 We went on hike one day.  And she insisted on carrying this stick all the way home.

 This is her first day of nursery and dispite what her face says, she actually really likes it.  She only cries a bit but because the nursery leaders and the moms of the other little people in the ward, she knows them so will sit on a lap until she's ready to play.

 So after the first day at IKEA, we had to go back for some reason--I think we'd been running errands and I bribed Henry with playtime at IKEA for behaving.  Guess what Zora found again?  The dog.  I bought it this time, let her have it in the car and then hid it when we got home.  Merry Christmas Zora.  She loves it.

 Here she is thinking she's 10 and dunking her cookie in milk.

Basically what I'm saying is toddlers are my favorite.  They can't talk back.  I know what their tantrums are about and they still take naps.  How to transform my other children back into toddlers?  Hmmm...actually, I also really like having an 8-year-old because he's figured things out.  If he doesn't wake me up or let the other kids wake me up, he gets to do what he wants, which means more sleep for mom, which I'm totally OK with.