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Quotes from Ezri

“I am smelling all the daffodils. You might think it would be boring doing the same thing over and over. But it isn’t. It keeps your nose full of sweetness.”

“Maybe if I am really good in the dentist’s chair, he will give me floss. . . as a special prize.” She was good enough to also score a new toothbrush and a Tinkerbelle sticker.

Playing “Elsa’s Rodeo Bookstore” with Ezri. Most books cost a dollar until she holds up a Frozen book and I ask, “How much does that one cost?” Ezri (as Elsa) says, “Because Frozen is so good, this one is FREE!”

“This bathtub is filled with flying carrots. They are hard to eat. CRUNCH! CRUNCH!” I really have no idea on this one, but I overheard it while she was playing in the bathtub.

“Ivan will be a champion water drinker. I will be a champion swimmer.” Ivan does not like to get in the water. Ezri has been in swim classes for almost a year. Ezri spoke on the differences in their relationship to water.

“Hello, Everybody! Come to my house!!! I am a sweet girl and you will like me if you get to know me.” Now that we can roll down our car windows Ezri has decided to yell out of them to folks in other cars.

The snowman that Ivan and I built a couple weeks ago.
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The hat & scarf Ezri found ready for wear in the yard today.

Another collection of Ezri’s sayings.

“Ivan stay on the futon or in your room or I might crush you with my cartwheeling.”
Ezri’s tumbles in no way resemble cartwheels.

E: Your Valentine’s party is tomorrow.
e: No, it’s not. It is the DAY AFTER tomorrow.
E: Pretty sure it’s tomorrow.
e: No, at school they said DAY AFTER tomorrow.
E: They told you that yesterday?
e: Yes!

e: I am Princess Ezri. This is Princess Twilight.
i: I am Princess Ivan.
e: No, you are a prince.
i(with a glint of resolve): PRINCESS Ivan. PRINCESS Spike.

“Are those trees deciduous?” Ezri sees snow falling on trees in an app on the iPad and tries to understand the incongruity of the trees still having leaves while the snow falls.

“IKEA IKEA you got that knife at IKEA!” She read the IKEA herself and is very proud. She finds IKEA all over the house on towels, toys, and kitchen utensils.

e: (while flailing about on the floor) Aren’t I the best dancer ever with the best dance moves?
E: (with an upbeat tone) You are the most enthusiastic dancer our house has ever seen.

“The boys want to get all handsomed up. They need to be SO fancy.” Said while dressing up her male My Little Pony toys.

As I head out of the house for a walk Ezri tells me, “When you hear howling it’s just the wolves.” Eric responds, “There are no wolves.” With indignation Ezri replies, “No, wolves are real.”

From her cozy made of blankets on the floor, “I’m the QUEEN of cozies.”

“I’m going to show Mrs. Paul my subtraction.” Ezri has started learning some math concepts beyond counting and grouping.

“Ivan, if I give you back your laser piece, will you STOP lasering me?” If you teach your brother to make a “laser” gun out of tinkertoys be prepared for him to chase you around the house chanting “LASER-LASER-LASER-LASER”

“I am the queen of fashion. Ivan, you are the king of fashion.” As she points to Eric and I, “You are the royal servants of fashion.”

Another collection of quotable Ezri:

e: In the future we go to the Dinosaur Park.
A: How do you know that?
e: I remember it.

e: Knock Knock
A: Who’s there?
e: Breck.
A: Breck who?
e: Breakfast walk on a pancake. I wish our floor was made of pancakes.

“Good drinks are even specialer with people you love.” This is a comment on her memories of drinking chocolate “coffee” (Ovaltine) with Arden and it also strikes me it is a universal truth.

i: Ivan is big! Ivan is big.
e: Did you say Irish Pig?

At night passing a store window filled with lighted Christmas trees, “Behold! Christmas trees.” A block further passing a lighted Citgo sign, “Behold! The Gas Station!”

As we passed a large inflatable lawn Santa who had his illumination in the groin area, “Why does Santa have a little, red wedgie?”

“Wouldn’t it be easier to make a snowman if we had a dog?” She has a theory that it would fetch us good sticks to use for the arms.

Ezri lost her 2nd tooth last night. “After 3 more teeth I can buy a new My Little Pony.” We discussed the idea of an allowance since purchasing power seemed entrancing. But once she heard she might not get her allowance if she didn’t help out, she did not want an allowance at all. Apparently it would be sadder for her not to get her allowance in a given week than to never have had one at all. She said, “Maybe when I am five, I will get one.”

“You are a good singer. I am a good singer. Maybe together we can be movie stars.” Obviously this was said to her father, not her mother.

We were talking about all different kinds of jobs people have and Ezri said, “I want my job to be being friends with all the kids in whole world.”

“Manny is my closest friend.” Further conversation revealed that this is the case because he is the friend who lives closest to our house.

Amanda: It won’t matter which pillow you put your tooth under. The tooth fairy will find it. She’s magic.
ezri: No, she’s NOT magic.
Eric: Then how does she know you just lost a tooth?
ezri: She’s just really smart.
(Ezri knows magic is pretend and I think she wants to believe the tooth fairy is REAL.)

“I’m doomed! Doomed! I have so much to pack and only these two bags.” Hyperbole. Her dramatic tone made me chuckle. She was just putting toys in her owly bags for fun and carrying them from room to room.

“Rectangles! Get your free Rectangles!” Ezri called this out as she cut a piece of paper into tiny rectangles. I got 12 free rectangles.

“It’s a littlest pet shop fashion show and Ivan is my little assistant. Can I have him for 5 more minutes, please?” When I told Ezri, Ivan needed to go take his nap. These days they are playing together more productively. Plenty of squabbling, but lots of nice moments enjoying each other too.

When the kids had gone into “Kids Land where no grown-ups are allowed” and been quiet a bit too long. I suspected climbing on the bed which they had been doing earlier in the morning, but when I opened the door I found Ezri reading Ivan a story quietly.

Max monkey needed a new outfit and it was Blau Haus Dance Day.

This is Ezri the morning after losing her first tooth with a gap-toothed smile.

Ezri has been doing a lot of wishing lately. Here is a collection of recent quotes starting with some of her wishes.

“I wish no one had to die.  Not even old people until they were ONE HUNDRED.” One hundred is the largest number Ezri can conceive of.

“I wish I could have a brownie every day in the morning.  Chocolate has caffeine so it is good in the morning.”

“I wish the whole house was filled with tomatoes and scrambled eggs.  I would chomp, chomp, chomp my way through.”

 
e: I wish I was a cat.

A: Think of all the things you couldn’t do if you were a cat. Like go to preschool or eat pudding.

e: I wish I was half cat and half girl

“I wish all my grandparents and best friends all lived in Bozeman so I would not miss any of them.” We were in Bozeman when she said this visiting the maternal grandparents.

After an epic fall on the pavement, Ezri was told if she’d been less silly while walking she would not have fallen and saved herself the pain. Her answer, “I was not being silly. I was pretending my two feet had different jobs to do.” We’ve explained her feet should be a team working on one job at a time.

“How old do you have to be to read?” She wants to read her own stories, but aside from the ones she’s memorized she’s really not there yet. She recognizes some sight words and is learning her letter sounds. We told her that like a lot of things there wasn’t one age it happened, but we’d help her if she wanted to try.

Eric was downstairs supervising the kids and I was cleaning up in the kitchen. I went down to see if he needed any help, but the photo below shows he had it in hand. I asked the kids what daddy was doing. Ezri said sleeping. Ivan made snoring noises.

e: I am a very good helper.
A: Are you dusting?
e: No. I am undusting with my unduster. Sometimes when I’m not undusting I ride it for being a witch.

I teach Ivan lots of things, even some bad things like not listening.

Here’s Ivan requesting his sister read him a book and Ezri explaining that she’s too busy just now.
(Ivan chasing Ezri down the hallway carrying his book Go, Maisy, Go)
i : Evvie, read Maisy! Evvie, read Maisy!
e: I am very busy working taping these ponies mouths. They will go crazy if I don’t.

We were talking about the beginning of preschool. I said I did not know who Ezri’s teacher would be this year and this is what she said.
“I hope I have my regular teacher. Mrs. Paul is the greatest teacher ever. Other kids might think their teacher is the greatest, but the real greatest teacher is Mrs. Paul.” Today the letter came that Ezri is placed in Mrs. Paul’s class this fall. Her face lit up with joy and she said, “I am so excited for that.”

Playing in the car:
e: Let’s play I Spy With My Little Eye!
A: Okay.
e: I spy something green.
A: Is it grass?
e: No.
A: Is it a tree?
e: No.
A: Is it shrubbery?
e: No.
A: I give up what is it?
e: A conifer.
A: I never would’ve guessed that.
e: Let’s play again. I spy something blue.
A: Is it a car?
e: No.
A: Is it a street sign.
e: No.
A: Is it the sky?
e: No.
A: I give up what is it?
e: I forget now. I don’t see it anymore.

Ezri tells me this drawing is a giant with a cold. He wears a pink hat that his Uncle Tom made him to stay warm. His snot is pink. Later she decided that it wasn’t snot but a bloody nose like the one she got last winter when the air was so dry.

Here are a couple of other conversations with Ezri.

Our Charles Darwin doll wants to be “the king of all Grandpas.” To do this he must win The Grandpa Competition four times in a row. Ezri has combed his hair to perfect smoothness to prepare him for the competition. She tells me he will sing in the competition.

e: Amanda, the robots want me to have a donut.
A: Which robots?
e: R2D2 and C3PO’s friends.
A: The droids think we should drive through Dunkin’ Donuts?
e: Yes, the robots think Ivan wants a donut too. Robots like sprinkles.

Ezri taught me how to play Ball Bounce Bonanza. Put a ball in a bucket of water and dump it over your opponent’s head yelling “Ball Bounce Bonanza!” This game is best played in a wading pool.

We’ve also been making a lot of play dough worm families for whom Ezri narrates adventures. She makes them beds with worm pillows, blankets (worms need very long blankets) and teddy worms. She uses a worm voice to whine that they are hungry and in a weary voice Ezri says, “Okay, okay, okay, I will make you some food.” She helps them learn to use the potty. Nothing like helping a playdough worm use the playdough worm potty and wipe with playdough toilet paper and wash its wiggles (since it has no hands) and dry on the playdough towel. She makes them playdough balls to play with and she carries them around in a bucket for safe travel. “I made them the worm potty because they don’t want worm poop all over their house.” She made them a table and a bathtub too. She will declare, “I’m going back to the factory. The worms need a cozy!” This repeats for the many material needs of her worm family. Just when I thought they had all they could need, Ezri began work on a worm bookshelf with books. Everyone needs books.

There’s nothing like being read to by a professional. Lori also plays a great pretend tiger. I think playing with Lori and Jason was even more fun than the ice cream we all had together and that is saying something.

Here’s another collection of Ezri quotes.

“Stop it, Ivan. Ivan is flattering me!” Ivan was sitting on top of his sister.

“Gardening is hard work. Weeding is hard, but it is our destiny. Weeding is not the fun part of gardening, but it is our destiny. Weeding is taking a long time.” I look at my watch we have been weeding in the garden patch for about a minute and half. I ask, ‘What is the fun part of gardening?” Ezri answers, “The eating.” I suspect she may be confusing “destiny” with “duty.” I agree that fresh grown vegetables and fruits are the best part, but anticipate getting none of our strawberries or tomatoes this year with two pickers here who will pop them right in their mouths.

“Amanda, you are the best mama EVER!” It was said at a moment I hadn’t even done anything AMAZING like given her a cookie. I felt I should write it down to remind her she felt this way once.

As I added dried cranberries to my oatmeal (something Ezri loves to do), “Amanda, you are my kind of mama!”

Ezri was delaying bedtime and said she had to tell us something. Eric said, “Ezri, just spit it out.” She looked puzzled and said, “But, I don’t have anything in my mouth.”

“A hug is what you give when you don’t have a real present.” Her hugs are real presents, she just doesn’t know it.

She also now gives me kisses that are “proof” when I leave for work. I asked what it meant to have a kiss that was proof.
“You know it’s water proof and wind proof. It won’t wash off. Nothing can get it off because it’s proof.”

On mother’s day we all sang to me and had cookies. We talked about father’s day next month and what we might do. Then Ezri asked, “When is Kids’ Day?” Asking Ezri what a Kids’ Day would have she thought there would be macaroni and cheese for dinner, special Kids’ Day cookies, and a trip to Westmont Yard where there are bouncy houses. I think we can make Kids’ Day happen.

“Do you remember the olden days before the iPad?” We’ve been talking a lot about inventions like the car, indoor plumbing, and electric lights. We’ve talked about how people didn’t used have those inventions which prompted Ezri to ask about the much loved iPad. Yes, Ezri, I remember 2009 just fine. It was the year you were born.

“What do people eat if they don’t eat food?” I had trouble figuring out how to answer that one.

After unwrapping a Hershey’s kiss and holding the small tissue flag Ezri asked, “Do I need to keep the receipt anymore?”

“I am scooting on my scooter. When I go too fast, I usually slow down.”

“Prepare to get PINK!” Running at me with her hands covered in pink sidewalk chalk dust.

“I am Water Girl and you are Dirt Woman.” Ezri was giving us superheroine names related to our tasks during the planting of containers. Just don’t the rest of you try to call me Dirt Woman.

While giving her baby dragon puppet a bottle (see photo above):
A: Look, it is Khal-Ezri, mother of dragons.
Ez: No, Big Sister of dragons actually.

Can one take too many photos of her children in boxes?

Another collection of quotes from the girl:

“Look, I am a chicken – a magic chicken.” She was flapping her wings while jumping on her trampoline.

“I will always have this hair until I am a skeleton.”

Talking to her own reflection in the window, “Hi, Ezri, what are you doing?”

“After I put on my cupcake pajamas I am going to be a weeping angel.” Her dad taught her to play “weeping angel.” It’s like red light, green light – but creepier. She’s very good at moving a step and then holding the exact position she had before.

“Let’s scratch the back of Baby Agent.” This is a quote during Ezri’s game of secret agent. Ezri likes to play secret agent after reading the book, 006 and a Half by Kes Gray. She has enjoyed several of Gray’s Daisy Books. I think Daisy is a kindred spirit. Daisy makes up a spy language that reminds me of Ezri’s made up “friendly alien” language. So, Ivan is the Baby Agent and I am the Mama Agent and Ezri is 004 and a half. She’s not that old yet, but I let her play more mature. She likes telling me how sneaky she is. Announcing your sneakiness may not be the way to practice the art of stealth.

“I am really really old. I am SIX!”

“We are having a underwear and fur party.” When I looked Ezri was wearing only her underwear and was in the cardboard box with Sushi, the cat.

Ezri: Tweet Tweet Tweet
Amanda: Are you a bird?
Ezri: No, I have a bird in my brain