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She thought about being a Super Princess Kitty (from the book of the same name). In this picture she is a Super Princess Kitty with her pink super cape and her kitty hat and her princess dress. She’s holding up a magic ring that spreads friendship wherever you fire it (or so says the Princess Super Kitty).

It turned out when we went out she really wanted a princess crown and face glitter instead of ears and whiskers. She did wear her Super E cape a bit, so she was a Super Princess. I wore kitty ears on a handband and my cape to be a Super Kitty. So together “the girls” as Ezri calls our duo had Super, Princess and Kitty all covered.

Here she is with her brother Super Spider-man, all set to go out.

Here she is very proud of her candy haul from the event.

Nature really does make the best play things and fall leaves are one of them.

Ezri was most distressed that Eric put her “leaf nests” into yard waste bags today.
Given the joy of the leaf piles this week, I should’ve seen that one coming.
But, one maple still has most of its leaves, so I could promise her more nests to build before fall is over.

Most of the time I see my husband in my children.

But sometimes I see myself.

This is Super Sloth and her sidekick, Baby Super Sloth.
They are rescuing the people flying through the air (leaves) so they don’t hit the ground and get hurt.
Super Sloth is the leader because she has ALL the super powers.
Don’t worry.  Regular sloths are slow, but super sloths can ZOOM-ZOOM-ZOOM!

I have no idea where the idea to be super sloths originated.

Cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2 in 3D.

I have never seen a 3D movie in the theater.  So, she’s one up on me.  The kids are enjoying ring pops.

She was helping celebrate her friends J turning 6 today,

This is Ezri the morning after losing her first tooth with a gap-toothed smile.

Ezri has been doing a lot of wishing lately. Here is a collection of recent quotes starting with some of her wishes.

“I wish no one had to die.  Not even old people until they were ONE HUNDRED.” One hundred is the largest number Ezri can conceive of.

“I wish I could have a brownie every day in the morning.  Chocolate has caffeine so it is good in the morning.”

“I wish the whole house was filled with tomatoes and scrambled eggs.  I would chomp, chomp, chomp my way through.”

 
e: I wish I was a cat.

A: Think of all the things you couldn’t do if you were a cat. Like go to preschool or eat pudding.

e: I wish I was half cat and half girl

“I wish all my grandparents and best friends all lived in Bozeman so I would not miss any of them.” We were in Bozeman when she said this visiting the maternal grandparents.

After an epic fall on the pavement, Ezri was told if she’d been less silly while walking she would not have fallen and saved herself the pain. Her answer, “I was not being silly. I was pretending my two feet had different jobs to do.” We’ve explained her feet should be a team working on one job at a time.

“How old do you have to be to read?” She wants to read her own stories, but aside from the ones she’s memorized she’s really not there yet. She recognizes some sight words and is learning her letter sounds. We told her that like a lot of things there wasn’t one age it happened, but we’d help her if she wanted to try.

Eric was downstairs supervising the kids and I was cleaning up in the kitchen. I went down to see if he needed any help, but the photo below shows he had it in hand. I asked the kids what daddy was doing. Ezri said sleeping. Ivan made snoring noises.

Ezri loves swimming in the warm pool.  Ivan not so much, but he enjoyed the wooden bridge in the gardens and climbing up to see the teepee.