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One of Ezri’s new favorite things is to help water the plants.

Here she is helping Meghan water a tomato.

We recently met up with Ezri’s grandparents Liz and Harvey at Morton Arboretum. We had lunch at the cafe there, and then explored the Children’s Garden, and took a walk around the lake.

Ezri reaches for the camera

I think Ezri is either working on her 2 year molars or she’s going rabid. I am pulling for the molars and glad she now likes biter biscuits.

Dance, Ezri Beatrice, dance!

She is using some clean laundry as a shaking flag.

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This isn’t a great photo, but it is a great game.
Ezri gets her spider puppet and puts it on her hand. Then I sing itsy bitsy spider and she dances around shaking her spider. It’s the dancing that makes it hard to photograph. So much wiggling.

Ezri is picking up heaps of words.
Her new playground vocabulary include “schweeng” for swing
“pah” for park
“baaah” for ball
“weeeee” for slide

Today we skype video chatted with Grandma Tam and Grandpa Mark. While Ezri was disappointed she could not hand her grandparents a hat for them to try on, she did enjoy seeing them and clearly she gets much more out of interacting in video chat than she would out of a phone call. She pointed at her nose and the grandparents pointed at their noses. She clapped and they clapped. They were like putty in her hands or on her viewscreen, I suppose. The grandparents were also shown “tick tock” a game we learned from our friend Charles. Eric was inspired to video this instance of tick tock.

Lately, when Ezri is not quite certain about what is going on or what is being asked of her, she makes a face her father and I affectionately call “stink face.” Here is Ezri’s stink face caught on camera.

Ezri in the Hamill Family Play Zoo. This is the area where kids can pretend to be zoo vets. She is using a ball syringe on the nose of an armadillo. She also wanted to use it on her own nose, but I convinced her the armadillo was a better idea.

We spent quite awhile playing with a photo booth that would put an animal border around your photo. It had buttons to push and a curtain to play peek-a-boo. I even decided to give in and buy a photo after 20 minutes of playing in the photo booth. The photo isn’t great (a low pixel photo of Ezri and I with a lion border) but the photo booth play time was worth it. Ezri liked it when the booth talked to us and the buttons made noises which made it worth having fed the machine money.

This is her happily sitting on the booth bench.

Behind the Play Zoo, there is a sandbox. This was Ezri’s first time in a sandbox which she really enjoyed. The sand was a bit damp from the rain, shoveling it and crushing it were no less fun for its dampness.

The sandbox is surrounded by lilacs which smelled great and were a good bonus.

Two things that excited Ezri very much this zoo visit were this dustpan & hand broom:

and these goslings:

Grapes on a stick = awesome

Empty stick = not so cool