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Photo of Ezri with fancy hair for the PTA dance.

I found some older Ezri quotes I’d jotted down and then forgotten in a notebook.

Here are her thoughts from kindergarten.

“A poogol is bigger than a googol and a plundred is bigger than a hundred.”

On eating toast, “I pretend there are princesses in the middle and knights won’t let them out. I eat like this to let them out.” She nibbles the crust off her toast.

“The only number in the whole world is ONE.”

And here is a collection from last fall of her first grade thoughts.

e: The world is worth more than all the money in the world
i: What about all the money on Mars?
e: There is no money on Mars

“Amanda, will I be popular when I grow up? I think I will. Because of my voice – it is very good . . .and I am very graceful.”

Loud Thunk heard from her room, “It’s okay. That was just my sarcophagus and there isn’t much in it.”

“Don’t you think I am like Poppy Corn?” Reading from the card about this Shopkin (line of anthropomorphized retail goods), “Warm and full of surprises. A great friend to see a movie with. She’s a bag of fun.”
My response, “Yes, Ezri, you are a bag of fun. And it’s time for the bag to brush its teeth.”

“Once Ivan is outside fighting zombies, only something like dinner can stop him. Something he REALLY likes.”

“Sleeping bags are special because you can put stuff in them and it stays there.”

Singing I’m on top of the world, Ezri asks about the top of the world and if she can stand on it. I ask her how would you tell where the top of the world is. Ezri says, “Well, if there are words on it then you can tell by the words which way is up. And sometimes the tag is on the bottom.”

“Hippos can close their noses underwater!” Ezri is now reading nonfiction books and sharing fun facts with me.

Ezri has passed through the why phase and into the what if phase. Her brother is catching it.
“What if I took a banana and I put half of it in my mouth like this?” “What if the whole house were made of cheesy dibbles?” “What if we had a toilet on top of the car and used it while we were driving somewhere?”
How is a parent to answer these deep questions?

“If you can make a bracelet with just your fingers then you can always make one. Cause you always have your fingers. Unless your fingers get cut off.”

Some conversations with Ezri over the last couple months.

Playing with sidewalk chalk, “I wrote Woo-hoo on that rock. You have to say ‘Woo-hoo’ when you step on it. Please, step on it now.”

“We are playing Ezri-quest. We must go to go talk to the whispering rock and learn its secrets.” Ezri is devising her own MagiQuest style games in our backyard.

e: I am the smartest girl in Kindergarten and Charlie is the smartest boy.
A: How do you know you are the smartest?
e: Well maybe not all the time the smartest. . . but most of the time.

Ezri has a theory about the power of friendship. It will solve the mystery of who stole the GPS from our car two years ago. It will get her a ride in a car on a car carrier. She told me once she has made friends with everyone in the world, “I will just ask my friends who took the GPS and they will tell me.” Mystery solved. She saw a car carrier and really wanted to ride in one of the cars on the back of the truck. I told her that was not safe and probably not legal. She told me, “When I am friends with everyone in the world, one of my friends will drive a car carrier and my friend will let me ride in one of the cars on the back.” It’s all about who you know. Ezri plans to know EVERYONE.

Her brother does not plan to know everyone. This exchange shows the difference in my two kids pretty well on the introvert/extrovert spectrum.
e: You can never have too many friends.
i: Yes, you can.

e: Can I have my own facebook page? I want to like the cute puppy myself.
She has learned what social media’s use is. She cannot have her own facebook account.

Interviewing her little brother with a notebook and pencil to write his answers.
e: Are we in America?
i: Yeah.
e: Is America cool?
i: Yeah. A little bit cool.

“You know I’m really just an ordinary girl. But, I do art. Art. Art!”

Last Thursday, Ezri made breakfast for me (buttered bread) and read stories to me. It was like turn around day. That girl takes good care of me.

Some quotations from the kid.

“It took 26 seconds and I stood on one foot for the whole process.” She was talking about buttering her morning toast.

At open gym they have a bunch of balls, the older kids there (aged 5 – 6) had divided into boys versus girls and were competing to have the most balls involving elaborate thieving from each others’ ball stashes. They were hoarding and a supervising mom told the big kids, it’s okay to have the balls and play with them like you are but if any of the littler kids ask for a ball you need share and let them have a ball. The bigger kids agreed they would do this.
Ezri’s solution was to find her brother and say, “Ivan, go over there and ask those big boys for a ball and then bring it to me.”

e: Do you want to meet the scraggles?
A: Sure, who are the scraggles?
e (brandishing some sock creatures): We are the scraggles.
e (speaking as a scraggle): Are you a good guy or a bad guy?
A: A good guy.
e (in cutesie scraggle voice): Okay, then we won’t eat you!
And that’s how you avoid getting eaten by cute sock critters.
Later the scraggles were heard to be making something called “stormtrooper soup.”
Powerful evil don’t mess with the scraggles, they may be wee but they will eat you.

Ezri had two suggestions for how the Chicago Fire could win a game.
Her first was that they find a very easy team to play.
Her second was that they split their team into two and play against each other.

Reading a sign at subway Ezri announced, “Subway CAT EARS!” Sadly, Subway caters is what it read.
Similarly I enjoyed “Off ice” read on the side of an insurance office.

A few things Ezri has said of late:

Speaking about Silly Sally who went to town walking backwards and upside down,
A: That’s quite a feat.
e: No, it’s quite some hands!

After one night of my working on a scarf, Ezri found it was heard to say,
“Is that all?” She went on to opine that after more practice with her knitting doll perhaps she could knit and help me move along faster.

It’s Perfect Dough – Perfecto!

Ezri imagining what inanimate objects are dreaming. “The play dome in our backyard dreams of running.”

A: What was your favorite part of the day?
e: Walking backwards with Audrey.
(We went to the zoo. The lemurs were cool, but walking backwards with a friend was awesome!)

Ezri looking out the window of our house first thing in the morning.
me: Whatcha looking at?
her: A beautiful day coming.

For Hanukkah the kids tried to recreate a photo of their aunt and dad when they were kids.

Some random words of the Ezri:

Playing with the advent calendar
e: what do you want to do with the body of the dead horse?
i: I want to make a robot out of it.
e: well, that won’t work because it would still be a dead horse.

i: A predator is coming! It’s a bobcat!
e: It’s just Manchi.
i: A predator is coming! It’s a bobcat!
e: It’s just Manchi.
i: A predator is coming! It’s a bobcat!
e: Ivan, it is just Manchi.
They were not playing the same game.

e: Can I practice for Christmas and open a package?
A: We will open our Christmas presents on Christmas.
e: Maybe I can wrap something to practice.
A: You want to wrap something you have and then practice opening it?
e: YEAH YEAH YEAH!
And we had a very fun (if slightly wasteful) wrapping and opening of existing toys around the house.

Photo of breakfast on the day it was “superhero day” at school.

Another collection of Ezri’s words and conversations:

Argument over which imaginary paint to use on the imaginary rocket ship they were building and painting.
e: No, IVAN! It’s rainbow on the outside. Rainbow paint!
i: No, I’m painting red -RED! RED!
e: IVAN, NOOOOOOOO!

“Ivan, tonight for special you can sleep with both Magics.”
Magic is a small plush unicorn from a happy meal and we have two of them and they both belong to Ezri, but she shares the magic.

“Pretend you are a ninja turtle and just relax. Just relax. I am going to put your shell on you.”  Ezri putting an inflatable life vest on Ivan.

“I am really good at math.  I think about it when I’m on the potty.  That’s how I got so good.”  After explaining that Ivan will be half her age when she turns 6.  And how he was half her age when she was 4 and he was 2.  And she was pretty sure that when she turned 8, he would be 4.  We figured out together that, while she would always be older than Ivan, he will not always be half her age.

Eric asked Ezri what she thought they should buy for Amanda for a Christmas present and this is what she said,
“I think we should ask her what she really wants and then get that.” If that wasn’t the plan she thought maybe I’d like wings that fold up small on my back and can be unfurled so I can fly.

Some recent quotes from Ezri:

“I am the best skipper in kindergarten. If there were a race for skipping I would win.”

Ezri looks like she struggling with her cutting so:
A: Do you need help?
e: No, I have scissors.

“What if the way it worked was people had no hands when they were babies. Then when you turn one you get one hand. When you turn two you get two hands.”

e: There’s a bump growing in the middle of my head it wasn’t there before. It’s how I know I am going to get my magical powers.
A: Are you a unicorn girl?
e: Yes, you might be one too. One day you are regular and then you feel the bump in your head and know you are magic.

The photos are from Constantine’s 2nd birthday. Ezri was the biggest kid there and she had a blast with the dress-up clothes.

Looking at some photos of a gay wedding with two brides in white dresses. Ezri asked what they were doing. I said the two brides were getting married to each other.
Ezri: Two brides!
Amanda: Yes, when two women fall in love and get married there are two brides.
Ezri: I know, but shouldn’t one of them get to be the groom?
Amanda: Well, usually we call the woman getting married the bride, but I suppose if one of them wanted to call herself the groom she could.
Ezri: That’s good. I would want to be the bride.

E (sounding a little exasperated): Ivan, I need you!
i (bounding towards his sister): I am right here. I am right here, Ezri.
She needed him to help her carry stuffed animals upstairs to the pet salon (bathroom).

Ezri asks questions that are hard to answer and they are never the ones I am prepared for. I try to answer them.
1) What is a church? We are secular. She doesn’t have a church, so how to describe it – the building? the faith community? what faith is? why there is more than one? what a deity is?
2) Are there still pirates? Her vision of pirates is Captain Hook and silly, scurvy seadogs that never truly existed outside of media and stories. Piracy happens today. There used to be sea going pirates. The whole thing was a tricky conversation that boiled down to the historical pirates that inspire the Disney show Jake and the Neverland pirates do not exist, but piracy still does.
3) Who will live in our house when we die? This one wasn’t that tricky to answer because I don’t know and won’t ever know, but it started a discussion of death as a separation from knowing and I still don’t know exactly what gears I turned in her head about what it means to die.
4) Why is it bad to be old? This question was asked after a discussion of how it is not nice to say to be “wow, you are really old” which she had done. I don’t believe it is bad to be old, but culturally it is not nice to point out someone’s age. I think I said something about how we avoid talking about certain things and tried to explain taboos and included some ramblings about how we don’t show our underwear even though we all know people wear underwear. So, sure you are going to notice people’s wrinkles and know they are old and they know they are old, but we still don’t mention it.

Ezri thinks she is Elmo. I think Elmo is eating her whole.

Some recent words from Ezri:

Ezri on the difference between her imaginary friends and the Friendly Aliens.
“My imaginary friends are imaginary. The Friendly Aliens are invisible. That’s why you can’t see them.”
When she speaks in nonsense babbles, she tells me that she is speaking “friendly alien” which only the Friendly Aliens understand.

After her first day at YMCA Camp Kindergarten:
“I made a friend today. A girl came up to me and she said, ‘Do you want to be my friend?’ and I said, ‘Yes.'”

“It’s like we are people who live in our car forever.” After waiting for 4 trains to pass at a railroad crossing.

“Squirtie selfie” Ezri’s words for the act of spraying oneself with a hose.

“When there is no one else. . . and no playdate. . . and the grown-ups are busy. Ivan is there. That’s why I like him. He’s my perfect match.”