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Ezri knows the rules now, but sometimes she can’t help but break them in her toddler exuberance.
We tickle and cuddle in the parents’ bed sometimes. The rule is no standing on the bed.
Ezri will stand up on the bed and shout with glee, “Sit Down, Please!”
She will be giving a warning.
Ezri will stand up again and say, “Ezri stand!”
Tonight at this point Ezri was told she had broken the rule and had to leave the bedroom and play elsewhere. This made her most upset she rolled around on the floor saying something Eric and I could not figure out, “Ezri tantomb. Ezri tantomb.” Eric got it before me. Ezri was letting us know that this rolling around was Ezri having a tantrum. I didn’t think it had gotten to what I would call tantrum stage, but I sure thought it was endearing that she was letting me know it had.

This photo is one more reason to love Trader Joe’s and why it can be hard to get Ezri out of the store without a “tantomb.”

Just a few new words of the last week or so:
Raspberry (thanks, Susan)
Slideshow
Turkey Vulture
Vet
Hedgehog (on her new p.j.’s)
Ernie (rubber ducky video is awesome)
Football (saw junior high practice)
Shaky Egg
Ashes Ashes All Fall Down (thanks, Julia, except she’s not so good at pronouncing the “sh” sound so it comes out as just a “sss” and that’s just funny)
Bobcat
Red dot
Koala
So, we’ve gotten well beyond just “ball” and “cat.”

And a few phrases we are hearing more and more:
“New diaper time”
“Ezri fall down”
“Dirty [insert object here – socks, pants,shoes, cracker]”
“Ezri do it”
“[insert here – cat, mama, Sushi, etc.] eat”
“[insert here – baby, puppy, dada, Manchi] sleepy”
One more time.
Again. (yes, those last two mean the same thing, but it’s worth trying them both to see if either will get Ezri another swing, snack, story, song, tick-tock)
More cookie, please. (that one was clearly worth learning and she says it very well)
And there are probably a million more that I am not thinking of just now.

Then she took off her shoes.

Here she said “Ezri no shoes.”
Her language gets more sentence-like all the time.
We were passed by the North High track team and Ezri said, “Big kids running.”
From the backseat of the car I heard, “Mama driving,” followed by Ezri reaching toward the front seat and saying “Inga inga” (a noise of desire) followed by “Ezri driving.”
Both Eric and I are charmed by her definitive three nods of the head for an affirmative response.
And her answer of, “good,” when asked if we should go to the park.

She’s also just started describing past events.
Or her parents got smart enough to notice her re-running her day at bedtime saying who she saw or where she went.
We had friends over for dinner and Ezri likes to point at the seats and name who sat in them previously.

She’s only getting better at speaking, climbing, and charming.

Ezri has learned the word Madison.

We went on a day trip a couple weeks ago to visit our friends, Nikki and Chris. They have two guinea pigs and a stuffed animal guinea pig that very much impressed our toddler.

We ran into traffic surrounding the Gay Pride Parade on State Street which we were unaware of, though we did enjoy its after party which included a cover band playing the music of ABBA. Ezri likes to dance – a toddler dancing queen. She was also declared “precious” by a lesbian couple – her parents agree.

We went to the capitol and took these photos.

We visited the UW terrace and saw ducks. Ezri likes to “quack.”

We had really excellent ice cream. Ezri is not into ice cream so much, but even she recognizes the joy of strawberry ice cream in Madison.

Ezri found all sorts of interesting new things to play with on campus.

A great day trip.