Drawing of The Zoo

Tonight I brought crayons and a notebook to the Sushi Place so Zoe could color before dinner.  I looked down and saw that Zoe had drawn the word Zoo at the top of the page.  I asked, "what are you drawing?"
"I'm drawing a picture of the zoo.  See, there is the sign that says 'zoo'."
"I see that, but how did you know how to spell it?"
"just like when we go to San Francisco and we see the signs with the owl that say 'zoo'.  You spell it just like that sign says."
I know that she noticed the signs with the owls, and she always asks about them, and I'm sure they caught her eye because it looks just like her name, but still I thought it was so cool. In her world of pictures and giberish symbols that she can't read yet, she remembered this and used it in the correct context.  #proud mommy