Just another CarleSpawn weblog

Ezri made a digital card for her Grandmothers for Mother’s day in an app on the iPad. She wrote the E and her name herself.

Ezri and her little brother enjoyed the attention and love of their Aunt Amy last weekend.

Thanks, Liz, for the matching skirts. More than one mom at the celebration asked me where we got them.

On this day both were wearing their Spider-man shirts.
As soon as they were dressed in the morning Ezri said, “We are both wearing Spider-man shirts. Let’s Spider-man Boogie!” She then danced around trying to get Ivan to follow her lead. He did a bit of a happy stomp with her. The Spider-man Boogie is fun.

It was a fabulous spring afternoon. The ducks had their attention. Ivan kept pointing and saying, “Quack! Quack!” He almost followed the ducks into the pond a couple of times.

Also, in these photos I think my kids look phenotypically similar.

Ezri brought along Minnie Mouse for a visit to Daffodil Glade.
At first she didn’t remember last year’s trip, but when she saw the field in bloom. She said, “I remember here!”

She was off and running and much better this year at avoiding daffodil trampling.

Ivan tried really hard to catch up with her, but despite his best efforts he was often far behind.

Chasing after your big sister is hard work. Luckily there were nice resting trees to lean against.

This scene ended in a hug and then a fall into the flowers.

At her first Comics Convention, C2E2 at the McCormick Center, Ezri had an eventful day. First she was dubbed “Ladye Ezri” by a woman with an impressive sword and an even more impressive dress.

Quickly moving from long ago to long, long ago and far, far away, Ezri donned her C3PO costume from Halloween (which still fits, aside from the legs now being about 2 inches too short), and went to the Star Wars Imperial Academy.

Here, they issued helmets and blasters, and put the cadets through a series of drills, before issuing a certificate to each cadet.

Along the way, she met a stormtrooper

and her counterpart, R2-D2. We were both so excited to get this picture that we forgot to get one where her mask was off.

Despite the long lines, the whole family had a good time.

We played delivery. Ezri also brought me cupcakes, oranges, and an imaginary pizza with olives.

She then took her baby doll and the sand pail she found on the porch and proceeded to have Baby Lily make retching noises into the bucket. She took good care of her sick Baby Lily and we were both grateful that the vomit was only pretend. I did not photograph Baby Lily’s illness.

Despite flooding that meant most of the Arboretum was closed to the public, we got to sneak in the back entrance for the Mother Daughter Tea Time special event today.

We had tea made entirely of flowers and we got to strain it with fancy tea strainers. A flute and keyboard duo of musicians played fancy music like a medley from The Sound of Music right next to us. There were scones & cream and petit fours and miniature sandwiches on pretty trays. Ezri liked dissolving her sugar in her tea and enthusiastically squeezing lemons. She liked her bright pink cloth napkin though we kept losing it to the floor. That was just an excuse to crawl under the table which she also liked.

During craft time, Ezri made a tea cup planter for her dad decorated by drawing his face and writing his name on it by herself. Then she asked me to add Princess Leia and R2D2 and write Star Wars because Eric likes Star Wars. I started “Star Wars” in a color that was not pink, but Ezri insisted I switch to the pink marker. Eric declared the gift to be “the nicest cup of dirt he’s ever received.”

Here we are photographed by one of our tablemates. The chair behind me is where the flautist played.

After tea we explored the gardens, skipped alot, and climbed on bike racks.

It was a nice event with being fancy but still perfect for a young girl. Watching Ezri sit up super straight and sip her tea daintily was smile inducing.