A friend of mine has twin girls a few months older than Zoe. Last year, when Zoe was still in the cute-but-not-terribly-active stage, and the twins had just entered the cute-and-actually-doing-things stage, my friend told me that her girls were constantly making her and her husband laugh. I’ve never forgotten her comment, and I feel that it now applies to Zoe too – since she’s always doing silly\/funny\/adorable things around me and Q.<\/p>\n
A good example comes from last night, when I put Zoe to bed. It took several attempts to calm her down (she kept bouncing, whimpering and demanding more rocking and singing), but her eyes finally closed and I was able to think about dinner. I was in the kitchen a few minutes later when the oven timer went off and a very loud and very clear cry came from Zoe’s room: “beep, beep, beep, beep!” This was so unexpected (she recently started beeping along to the microwave, but I didn’t know she could hear the oven timer in her room – plus I thought she was asleep!) and so terribly cute. I wanted to rush to her bedroom and give her a big squeeze, but I resisted – which wound up being the right move. A few minutes later, she was asleep. And I had had my good laugh of the day.<\/p>\n
-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A friend of mine has twin girls a few months older than Zoe. Last year, when Zoe was still in the cute-but-not-terribly-active stage, and the twins had just entered the cute-and-actually-doing-things stage, my friend told me that her girls were constantly making her and her husband laugh. I’ve never forgotten her comment, and I feel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20seventeen-to-eighteen-months"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}