Hoppin' Down the Bunny Trail!

I bet the Bunny Trail is paved with jelly beans, Friends!

Hiya, Big People!  How was your Easter?  Didja get a new outfit?  Didja get lotsa candy?

I sure did!

Peter Cottontail hopped down the Bunny Trail and brought me a buncha neat stuff, especially some books, so I can make myself smarter while I'm sugaring up with the contents of my Easter basket. 

All the talk about the Bunny Trail over the weekend got me to wondering what this Bunny Trail really is like.  I can't imagine that Peter Cottontail settles for plain ol' asphalt pavement for his Bunny Trail.  There's nothing fun about that.

I betchya the Bunny Trail is paved in jelly beans.  That's what I bet!  If I found a trail paved in Jelly Beans, I'd definitely not mind hippety-hoppity happily hopping on it!  I betchya that's why Peter Cottontail is so happy, Friends.  How could you NOT be happy when you're hopping down a trail of jelly beans?  That's a rhetorical question.  You couldn't not be happy in that situation!

Friends, I'll see ya tomorrow.  I'm gonna hop on over to my Easter basket and select a chocolate carrot and one of my new books to read.  I'll see ya tomorrow!  I love ya lots!  Muah!

Hoppy Easter!

Sorry about the bad pun, Friends.  I couldn't help myself!

Hiya, Big People!  Happy Easter to you! 

Well, ya know, I like Easter a lot.  I like that it's springtime.  I like the bright colors and the pastel colors.

I know yesterday, I was kinda sour about growin' up and not bein' a baby anymore.  It is a bitter little pill to swallow, findin' out that you're not the center of the universe, after all.  But you know what?  Growin' up has some benefits, especially right here around Easter-time.

You see, babies cannot hunt for Easter Eggs.  I am an impressive Easter Egg Hunter.  Babies cannot eat Easter candy.  I LOVE Peeps-n-Creme Eggs-n-Jelly Beans!

So I guess it's a trade-off.  I hafta realize I'm not the center of the universe, sure, but I guess it isn't so bad.  There's probably a lotta responsibility resting on the shoulders of the actual center of the universe.

Anyways, you have a Happy, Hoppy Easter, Big People!  I love ya lots!  Muah!

What Do You MEAN the Universe Doesn't Revolve Around Me?!

Gettin' bigger stinks.  It just stinks!

Friends, you know what I liked about bein' a baby?  Everything was about me.  It was like havin' an Express Lane in Life.  If I wanted something to eat, all I had to do was yell for it, and it was right there, in a hot second.  If I was thirsty, I just had to cry.  Boom.  A bottle was in my mouth before I could try makin' my head spin. 

When I was a baby, my happiness was first priority of everyone around me, and ya know what?  I LIKED it that way.

Well, now the heck that I'm a Little Kid, I'm findin' out that I am not, in fact, the center of the universe.  It doesn't revolve around me.  Earlier this week, Rozzie had to have surgery and get a back fulla stitches, and she was gettin' SOOOOOOO much attention. 

Well, ya know what?  I got a blister on my heel, and it reallllly hurrrrrrrrt, and all's anybody could talk about was Rozzie's back.  All's she had done was have a cyst removed.  I had a blister!  And while everybody was fawnin' all over Rozzie, would you believe I had to get my OWN Hello Kitty bandaid out of the drawer and put it on?

And when I called out Mommy for not payin' attention to ME and takin 'care of ME, Mommy looked me right in the eyes and said, "I'm sorry, Sweetie, but Rozzie needs me right now, and besides, the world doesn't revolve around you."

Well, this is news to me.  THIS is NEWS to me!  You bet it is.  And I don't like it one little bit. 

Friends, gettin' bigger just stinks. 

Good! Friday

This is how I always feel when we get back to Friday!

Hiya, Friends!  Happy Friday to you!

It's also Good Friday.  I don't think it's really appropriate to say "Happy Good Friday!"  I guess you'd maybe say "Good... Good Friday?"

Anyways, Big People, it's Friday, and that's always good, so good for us!

You know, every time we get back to Friday, it makes me smile.  I love Fridays.  I especially love Friday nights, because they're so full of potential.  The whole weekend stretches in front of a Friday night.  It's so full of possibilities.

So today's Good Friday, and it's a good day for lotsa reasons.  You go out and enjoy it, Big People.  I sure am going to.  I love ya lots!  Muah!

Forever Four

So many clothes, shoes-n-accessories!

Big People, have I ever told you about my favorite store to go shoppin' in for myself?  I used to think Toyota was my favorite store, until I learned that Toyota is not a toy store and instead is a car dealership.  I guess I was thinking of Toys-R-Us or something, but I think Toyota is a snappier name for a toy store. 

Anyways, that isn't my favorite store to shop for myself.  Don't get me wrong.  I love a good toy store.  I love toys and shoppin' for them.  But there's always the justification factor when it comes to buying toys.  Whenever I want a new toy, do I ever get the third degree: where are you gonna keep it?  Are ya really gonna play with that more than a day?  Don't you have one almost just like it, just a different color?

The answer to that last one is if it's a different color, it's a completely different toy.  Of course.

But clothings are a different story.  There isn't so much with the justification and the grilling when I want to buy a new outfit.  See, as a Little Kid, do I ever grow fast.  And clothes are something of a necessity.  Usually, once the Grill gets fired up and Mommy and Daddy think they're gonna throw on a coupla justification burger patties for me to cook up to perfection for 'em, I shut that operation right the heck down by asking 'em if they'd rather I just run around naked. 

That sure as heck fixes their dang ol' wagons!  Of course I can't just run around naked! 

So my favorite clothing store for myself is Forever Four.  You grownups have your own version of this, I understand.  It's called Forever 21, and you picked 21 as the age to be, on accounta when you're twenty-one, you get the perks of bein' an adult, but mostly have the carefree, free-wheelin' lifestyle of a teenager still.  Kinda the best of both worlds, I hear. That's the same premise behind Forever Four.  When you're four, you get to do all kinds of fun stuff the bigger kids get to do, but since you're four, the expectations on skill, responsibility, precision, behavior, and attention span are significantly managed to the point of being lowered, it could be argued.  None of my never-mind.  Bein' four's great, and they really get that at Forever Four.  Their clothings are fun, fashion-forward, colorful, sparkly, pretty much comfortable, because we Little Kids are all about comfort...

That's something you can't say about your Forever 21 stores, Big People.  Some of those clothings in there just cannot be comfortable.  There just isn't enough to 'em!  But at Forever Four, we just don't have that problem.

So that's my favorite source for Little Kid clothings for the fashion forward four-year-old that I am. 

Hey, Friends!  I love ya lots, but there's a sale I hafta get to at the Forever Four in the Bingham Centre. Even I hafta wait in the checkout lines, just like everybody else, so I'd better go!  See ya tomorrow!  Muah!

My Own Micro Apartment!

Yep, I pretty much like my new micro apartment!

Hiya, Friends!  Happy Wednesday to you!

Well, ya know,  now that I'm four years old and all, I've decided that it's high time that I move into my own place, so I can set my own rules, eat whatever I wanna eat, whenever I wanna eat it, watch what I wanna watch on the television, and go to bed whenever the heck I please, not when some Grownup tells me I oughtta.

I got to lookin' around the real estate market, tryin' to see what was available to a kid like me, with my credit rating and income, along with my lifestyle.  For instance, I know I wanted an apartment or condominium, or a house with lawn and driveway service, because I just don't wanna take the time for lawn and driveway upkeep.  Pretty soon, though, I realized that a palatial duplex penthouse condo was just a scoonch out of my price range.  I had to think smaller.  Much smaller.  Like studio or efficiency apartment small. 

I turned my attention to Tiny Homes, and then Really Tiny Homes.  Even these pocket palaces were a bit much for my needs, or more to the point, my budget, so I am so lucky I found a Micro Apartment Building here in the Bing.  It's pretty much a shelf in a closet that fits me, but you know what?  It's cozy, and quiet, and clean.  It features blond hardwood floors and contrasting darkwood doors.  It's very modern and stylish and I loved it and moved in on sight.

I'm really happy in my micro apartment.  It offers me the best of independent living available to four year olds in the Bing, but still allows me to enjoy an active social life, as I have to go out for all my dining, exercise, and entertainment needs.

This is the life, Pals, and I'm livin' it!  I bet you wish you could be four again, just so you could be my neighbor in the Micro Apartment Building!  But I really wantchya to be happy in your own life, Friends.  I love ya lots!  I'll see ya tomorrow!  Muah!

Tuney Tuesday!

Nothin' makes my day like music!

Hiya, Big People!  Hey!  It's Tuesday, and that means that it's Tuney Tuesday here at The Daily Zoe! 

If ya haven't heard of Tuney Tuesday, that's because I've never done a Tuney Tuesday before.  It's completely new.  I'm not sure if I'll do another Tuney Tuesday.  But today, it just so happens that I brought in my sparkly pink ukulele, and I'm havin' a ball, playin' it.

Oh, you know.  I like to play all kinds of tunes on my ukulele on this Tuney Tuesday.  It isn't important what I'm playing; the important thing is that I'm playing.

You see, music helps ya integrate all your thoughts in your head.  It helps your synapses connect and fire.  In short, music helps your brain light right up like a whole buncha twinkle lights, sendin' out messages, formulatin' great ideas.  Music's where it's at.

You know, Big People, I might just make Tuney Tuesday a thing around here.  Music is just too important not to listen to every day.  How about that?!

Hey, Friends!  You find some music to enjoy today, too!  Light your brain up!  I love ya lots, and I'll see ya tomorrow!  Muah!