Update on Zoe
May. 3rd, 2010 06:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mommydamaZoe, Zoe...what can I say about Zoe? A lot actually.
She is eight and a half now. Finishing up 2nd grade at the moment. Still as curious as always. Compassionate and loving. I always introduce new kids in our homeschool group to Zoe first and then ask her to make sure they meet the other kids and get included. One, because she seems to have no shyness or inhibitions really even though she is an introvert, and two, because her compassionate and loving nature is obvious to everyone and I know she will indeed make sure the new kids get included. She is so sweet it hurts.
Her reading skills have really taken off in the last few months. There is very little she can't or won't read. I love to watch her read. She still has an obsession with animals and bugs and nature in general and will spend hours with her pet rats, training them, feeding them treats, loving on them. They run into her hands and up to her shoulders when she opens the cage door and if anyone else is holding them, they will literally jump to Zoe if she is close enough. Every new leaf that opens on the tiny plants she is growing is celebrated intensely. The other day, we took George, the puppy, to the vet and while we were there an "emergency" came in. A small girl, maybe six or seven, came running in ahead of her mother, holding a limb guinea pig in her hands and crying stormily. They were ushered into an exam room and about five minutes later we heard wails of grief from the room. Poor Zoe could hardly stand it. She was curled up beside me shaking and silently crying along with the poor girl in the room. She kept murmuring, "Oh, poor thing. Poor thing. It is just like when Jesse died. It hurts so much. Poor thing." The world is full of wonder and joy for Zoe, but also full of pain.
She absolutely LOVES singing in the Rocky Mountain Children's Choir. She concentrates so hard and is so animated. She and Luci are in the entry level choir and I'm really, really hoping they move Zoe up next year. She's had a hard time with the younger kids and the more relaxed atmosphere of the entry level choir. She hates it when the kids don't pay attention and they lose practice time in chaos. Maria is in the next level, and it is a much more controlled and focused environment. I think she would really thrive there, so I'm crossing my fingers for it. She loves to perform and will jump up and sing for just about anyone if I ask her to do so.
She makes my heart swell until it feels like it might burst.
She is eight and a half now. Finishing up 2nd grade at the moment. Still as curious as always. Compassionate and loving. I always introduce new kids in our homeschool group to Zoe first and then ask her to make sure they meet the other kids and get included. One, because she seems to have no shyness or inhibitions really even though she is an introvert, and two, because her compassionate and loving nature is obvious to everyone and I know she will indeed make sure the new kids get included. She is so sweet it hurts.
Her reading skills have really taken off in the last few months. There is very little she can't or won't read. I love to watch her read. She still has an obsession with animals and bugs and nature in general and will spend hours with her pet rats, training them, feeding them treats, loving on them. They run into her hands and up to her shoulders when she opens the cage door and if anyone else is holding them, they will literally jump to Zoe if she is close enough. Every new leaf that opens on the tiny plants she is growing is celebrated intensely. The other day, we took George, the puppy, to the vet and while we were there an "emergency" came in. A small girl, maybe six or seven, came running in ahead of her mother, holding a limb guinea pig in her hands and crying stormily. They were ushered into an exam room and about five minutes later we heard wails of grief from the room. Poor Zoe could hardly stand it. She was curled up beside me shaking and silently crying along with the poor girl in the room. She kept murmuring, "Oh, poor thing. Poor thing. It is just like when Jesse died. It hurts so much. Poor thing." The world is full of wonder and joy for Zoe, but also full of pain.
She absolutely LOVES singing in the Rocky Mountain Children's Choir. She concentrates so hard and is so animated. She and Luci are in the entry level choir and I'm really, really hoping they move Zoe up next year. She's had a hard time with the younger kids and the more relaxed atmosphere of the entry level choir. She hates it when the kids don't pay attention and they lose practice time in chaos. Maria is in the next level, and it is a much more controlled and focused environment. I think she would really thrive there, so I'm crossing my fingers for it. She loves to perform and will jump up and sing for just about anyone if I ask her to do so.
She makes my heart swell until it feels like it might burst.
