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Another Hermann Hospital baby here! The Houston Zoo is there, too. The train they rode in the birthday episode goes around part of Hermann Park. In the episode from a few years ago where Jen and Bill were invited to throw out the first pitch at an Astros game and went on a picnic with some of Jen's friends from work so Jen could "practice" throwing the ball with their friends' schoolage kid... that was filmed in Hermann Park. Since I mentioned Houston locations, the scene where Bill and Zoey are in the hospital "cafeteria"... that looked like the food court on the 3rd floor of Texas Children's Hospital. It's a well-kept secret from St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital/Texas Heart Institute which are connected via walkways to TCH, and at no time when I was there were there ever more than a handful of people present. (Someone commented on TWoP about Jen going into a cafeteria with her compromised immune system.) It looks like a miniature mall food court with a Subway, pizza, and 3 or 4 other places. There are plenty of tables and chairs for people to spread out. The only sources I could find for food in SLEH were the hospital cafeteria (a real hospital cafeteria with all the horrible smells and gross food choices that go with it), vending machines, and the neon-lit McDonald's smack dab in the middle of the first floor across from the admissions office... until a staff member told me about the TCH food court. It's the strangest thing seeing a McDonald's in the middle of a major heart hospital/clinic. I always figured it was a collaboration with McDonald's to create more patients for Texas Heart Institute. Several of the destination locations around Houston such as the yoga place, the wig place, the hobby shop, and the burger place are in the west/southwest area of Houston near the 610 loop. We've seen them fly out of both Hobby and Bush Airports, Hobby being much closer but smaller, mainly a Southwest hub. Bill and Jen live only about 2 miles from her work. Sure beats the commute she would have had from some of the other places they were looking.

I envisioned Sully in Monsters, Inc.!

Meh... I'd say it made me a bit uncomfortable in that it seemed kind of forced, but I agree with the OP who said Zoey will likely look back at the video in 20 years and enjoy it... even though she probably won't remember it. I don't like it when parents force their children into rigid "gender" roles. Let the kid develop his or her own interests. My parents did, and I turned out okay, certainly never a "girly" girl and still not one today, quite the opposite in fact. I've never understood the appeal of tea parties, but to each his own. Just please, please, please don't make the kid wear those honking fugly flower hairbows that are bigger than her head! Minor point. IIRC Zoey was seated on the hearth in front of the fireplace, not standing on it. She was sitting upright and for some reason (size, trunk strength, coordination, etc.?) tipped backwards and hit her head on the marble surround. Accidents happen. As Bill and Jen quickly learned, they can't pad every square inch of every surface in their house. If those two kids get through childhood without at least one trip to the ER for stitches or a broken bone they will be very fortunate. It's almost a rite of passage for most kids, and it's not always indicative of careless parenting.