Stuff Zoe likes

I've decided to start posting pictures of stuff Zoe likes. Hopefully one day, maybe , Zoe will be able to look at this blog and enjoy seeing "what she used to like when she was little". So will Genevieve and I, when we get super old and start to forget all this important stuff. So here goes. The spacing is a bit messed up- for whatever reason the website won't let me fix it the way I'd like to. Oh well.

Bird- Zoe's first love.

Bird was given to Zoe by her first Early Childhood Interventionist, Jessie. He is very simple- he rocks back and forward and jingles as he does so. It was very nice of Jessie to give him to Zoe- they don't make simple toys like this much these days and they can be very hard to find. Bird was the first toy Zoe actually played with- before she started interacting with him we weren't sure if Zoe would be able to play at all. When she started reaching for him and batting him around we were of course thrilled, so bird is understandably pretty important to us. Incidentally, Bird is a penguin, a fact we didn't really clue into for several months or else he may have ended up with an entirely different name.

Zoe's flowers

These are Zoe's flowers. It was one of the first and one of the very few toys we actually bought for Zoe. It chimes different notes or plays a song ("If you're happy and you know it") when you push the flowers. The blue one is sort of broken. Initially she needed a lot of hand over hand help to push them- now she pushes them no problem, grabs it by the stems and throws it all over the place.

Zoe's Mardi Gras beads

Genevieve and I we originally got these on a trip to New Orleans (we picked up them up off the ground, if you must know- there was no flashing involved. Not on our part anyway). For awhile we used them as Christmas tree ornaments. When Zoe arrived they became hers. She likes to use them on the bus and subway on the way to daycare. They were and are great for promoting her hand-eye coordination.

Dollar store pom pom.

Zoe loves to play with this while she is doing her sitting exercises. We have to watch to make sure she doesn't eat the plastic strings however. Yum!