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Ezri and Ivan worked together well to color this whole giant sized coloring page of a dinosaur.

Ivan’s scribbles and Ezri’s more focused coloring make a nice mix.

Then I asked what the dinosaur says.

ROAR!

This is the completed dinosaur suitable for the refrigerator.

Other Ezri news:
Ezri is learning to type some words and called out wondering how to get the “red dots” to go away from her name. Spellcheck does not know your name, Ezri. It was fine with the other family names she’d typed. No red dots for “Ivan.”

She has taught her brother that if she has a snack and commands “Speak” that replying “Woof!” will get him some of her crackers. This kept them entertained for 20 minutes in the car.

Ezri took her little brother up into the structure and they tandem slid a few times until she declared, “Ivan, you can do it all by yourself.” And he did.

Ivan liked shaking snow onto Ezri’s head.

I pulled both kids around in circles in the backyard.

Ezri pulled Ivan on the sled.

Ivan tried to pull Ezri. It was slow and worked best on the slight downhill slope, but there was movement.

In our sledding loop around the backyard, we waved hello to and greeted our friends the snowmen as we zoomed past. I also pulled the kids right up to the door of the playhouse many times to deliver them home by sled.

Ezri got to pick our frosting colors. So, it’s pink & purple.

Ivan helped decorate too.

The final product looked like this.

It was awfully warm back there in late September.

We had fun in the pumpkin patch until the “pumpkin fight” incident.

In the pumpkin patch, Ezri was marching toward us carrying a 5 lb pumpkin and chanting, “pumpkin fight, pumpkin fight.” Then she hurled the pumpkin at Ivan’s head and bonk. He wailed and she seemed genuinely surprised at the negative responses to her grand pumpkin fight idea. Snowballs and pumpkins are very different. Maybe I should’ve anticipated during the chanting – but really what did she think was going to happen?

Makes this photo a little more ominous as I now know that is the projectile pumpkin.

And makes me glad she couldn’t lift the bigger pumpkins for very long.

After recovering from being hit in the head with a pumpkin, Ivan tripped on part of a plow in a field and cut his leg.
A lollipop was needed to speed his recovery.
Somehow Ezri got one too. Guess what color it was.

Ivan did have some high moments too. He got to meet a llama who he called, “Llama llama red pajama.” He got to slide down a huge tube slide repeatedly and throw worm shaped beanbags into apple shaped targets. While Ezri loved playing in the pit of feed corn and feeling it between her bare toes, Ivan is not interested and kept lifting his feet saying, “get it off!” We moved on to racing plastic ducks with pumps, both kids agree that plastic floaty ducks getting moved by pumping water is just fun.

I think tomorrow we may decorate our haul of 4 pumpkins from this outing. We already ate the apples.

She thought about being a Super Princess Kitty (from the book of the same name). In this picture she is a Super Princess Kitty with her pink super cape and her kitty hat and her princess dress. She’s holding up a magic ring that spreads friendship wherever you fire it (or so says the Princess Super Kitty).

It turned out when we went out she really wanted a princess crown and face glitter instead of ears and whiskers. She did wear her Super E cape a bit, so she was a Super Princess. I wore kitty ears on a handband and my cape to be a Super Kitty. So together “the girls” as Ezri calls our duo had Super, Princess and Kitty all covered.

Here she is with her brother Super Spider-man, all set to go out.

Here she is very proud of her candy haul from the event.

This is Super Sloth and her sidekick, Baby Super Sloth.
They are rescuing the people flying through the air (leaves) so they don’t hit the ground and get hurt.
Super Sloth is the leader because she has ALL the super powers.
Don’t worry.  Regular sloths are slow, but super sloths can ZOOM-ZOOM-ZOOM!

I have no idea where the idea to be super sloths originated.

Doc

We were mixing up colors.

Then there was applying the whipped cream from a can and shaking on plenty of purple and pink sprinkles.

Then we needed to reapply additional pink and purple sprinkles once Ezri had eaten all the sprinkles off. Having no sprinkles made her sad.

Ivan preferred his unadorned and favored the green pancakes. He ate three whole pancakes.

Then Ivan grabbed a sprinkle container in each hand and ran through the house shaking them while saying “Happy Hour! Happy Hour!” Nothing like being all sugared up early in the morning.

Ready, set

STOMP!

Despite a bit of grief over the worms in the puddles who didn’t survive the shower, we had a good rainy morning of fun.