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Ezri uses her wooden duck toy more like a scepter than like a push toy.

Eric decided this outfit was coordinated lest you think Ezri is dressing herself.

Eric has mounted our old laptop on a cube for Ezri. She can browse the internet (she likes lolcats) and type on the keys just like her parents.
My first computer was an Apple II with a great program my mom made that let me create ice cream cones. It even had color if the parents let me hook it up to the TV screen otherwise all ice cream scoops were some shade of green. I think I was a t least 3 before I got to play with the computer. Ezri has her own laptop (outdated to be sure) at just a year old and it is wirelessly attached to the Internet.
Also, as the photo shows she totally respects the machine.

Ezri’s grandparents hosted a passover seder Monday.  We discovered she loves gefilte fish. Matzo balls are tasty, but gefilte fish was the item on the table she pointed at asking for more.
Here is a photo of her cheeks filled with fish.

She also ate some matzo cracker.

It is odd to have Ezri doing things for the second time. This was her second seder and it is her second spring. There are plenty of firsts left for our girl, but I can’t help but be amazed our daughter is more than one year old.  Thanks for these photos, Grandma Liz.

Spring has sprung and that means time to play at the Morton Arboretum with friends. Charlotte is a full year older than Ezri, but very patient about showing Ezri how it is done.  She played peek-a-boo with Ezri and gave her hugs.  Ezri is not great at walking and holding hands yet, but with Charlotte’s guidance I think she’ll get there.  The hand holding is so exciting that Ezri sometimes falls over.

Ezri has started trying things on.
She puts on her parents shoes sometimes over her own and drags them about the floor.
She tries to put on her coat by wrapping it around her shoulders.
She places her hat on her head. She makes an effort to put her sunglasses on her face. The sunglasses are key right now. Since Eric and I and the 4 grandparents and Aunt Amy all wear glasses, Ezri knows she wants to as well.  She would go after glasses to try to wear them – usually expensive prescription glasses. Now, we can redirect her to her pink sunglasses from Aunt Coral when she starts going after ours. She likes to put them on and then go peek at herself wearing them in the mirror and smile.
In the photo above, she found clean underwear in my drawer and decided to use it for scarves.  Very fashionable!

Sara and Sharon went to PLA and Ezri got this tutu from the Portland Art Market.

She likes it. Here we are playing outside in her spring frilly.

Tutu Hoo-ray!

Guess what? Tutu butt!

This outfit shows off my belly button.

Ezri is walking purposefully with a stick to wave about and she is wearing her tutu. I just find this photo to capture my daughter’s attitude about spring perfectly.

Now that Ezri’s red birthday balloon has begun to sag after a month and a half bouncing around our ceiling, it’s time to share Ezri’s birthday video. It helps that Eric bought this new computer with a new version of iMovie.

Ezri enjoyed showing off for and playing with her Aunt Amy.

Ezri has been learning to eat with her spoon by herself. It’s messy but fun.

She’s been visiting with her aunt Amy and spending time with Grandma Liz as they’ve been babysitting for her.

There have been a number of sunny days which have meant trips to the park, the zoo and many a stroller walk. She loves playing with sticks and bark mulch. She really wants to climb up slides and tries to stand up when she slides down which is a bit scary as she could launch herself over the side of the slide.

At the zoo, the favorite thing she saw was a yellow feather duster that is from an area in the Family Zoo where you can pretend to be a zookeeper and pretend to clean up after the animals. “Ezri, there’s a lemur over there.” No, she’s not looking up she’s busy rubbing the floor with the yellow feather duster.  She did enjoy seeing sea lions, gorillas, and snow leopards too.  But, nothing was as cool as that feather duster.  She did get to hiss at a real snake.  Making a hissing noise at her snake fingerpuppet is big these days, so it was neat to introduce her to the genuine article.