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On this day both were wearing their Spider-man shirts.
As soon as they were dressed in the morning Ezri said, “We are both wearing Spider-man shirts. Let’s Spider-man Boogie!” She then danced around trying to get Ivan to follow her lead. He did a bit of a happy stomp with her. The Spider-man Boogie is fun.

It was a fabulous spring afternoon. The ducks had their attention. Ivan kept pointing and saying, “Quack! Quack!” He almost followed the ducks into the pond a couple of times.

Also, in these photos I think my kids look phenotypically similar.

Ezri wore her pinkest to party at her preschool friend L’s house for L’s 4th brithday.

Then in the afternoon we were off to the arboretum with Meghan. It was the first day warm enough to wade.

Spidergirl did some climbing.

Then she did some playing in the adventure woods. There is a portion of tree house there that I call “Ewok village” as it has that look. As soon as I asked if we should go to “Ewok village,” Ivan said “bacca.” That’s his word for Chewbacca who is not an Ewok, but for 19 months Ivan’s got some serious Star Wars knowledge.

Meghan took this picture of the small adventurer.

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

Here we are under the tree pre-present opening.
Ivan woke up at 7:30. Ezri did not appear until 9 a.m. due to her festive Christmas pinkeye.
Ivan saw the unwrapped red rocking moose left for him under the tree and called it,”Ee-Oh! Ee-Oh! Ee-Oh!” We’ve since learned he uses this word for strollers too. Perhaps it means conveyance?

Ezri is unwrapping a really cool pop-up book. She helped Ivan unwrap his gifts too. I liked it when she unwrapped a present in pink cupcake paper and said that clearly Grandma Tam who wrapped it “knows me because I like cupcakes AND pink.”

The kids love the Star Wars spaceships that came with small Vader, Luke and R2.
They did a pretty good job sharing the present. Only occasionally did we hear Ezri says, “No, Ivan, no! I want Vader!”

We had to take a brunch break. Bacon and coffee – hoo-ray!

Ezri loved the new pink sleeping bag and insisted on taking it to sleep with in her bed. It has made one out of the house foray now to a New Year’s Eve party.

It wouldn’t be Christmas without new books.

Eric unwrapped his Dr. Who lego compatible mini figures.

Ezri and Eric tested whether all the doctors could fit on the lego police car from her stocking. It’s tight, but they just made it.

Ezri in a new dress that is both striped and pink (two of her signature fashion favorite trends) and wearing the paper chain we made to decorate for our holiday party.

We put the tree up and did just a little decorating.

After our first pass at decorating, Ezri’s ornament placement may have needed adjustment.

The next day we did some more work on the tree. Here we are junking up our tree really nicely.

Ivan found an ornament shaped like a star. He holds it aloft saying “Tee-Ko Tee-Ko!” That’s his version of “twinkle twinkle.”

Here Ezri is showing the “baby frosty” who she hung next to the “mama Frosty.”

I am so happy to have a tree full of ornaments – many homemade. We have ornaments made by Ezri and ones Eric & Amy made as children and ones Tam made during my childhood and ones from special friends. It’s completely festive.

It was cold but we had a great time exploring the hedge maze for the first time and stopping by the Enchanted Railroad to warm up and watch the mini-trains go round and round.

and visit with a BIG PINK BEAR TOO!

Ezri wandered about at the beginning of the storytime before the show telling people “Human cyborg relations.” Occasionally she would point at Ivan and say, “That’s my counterpart.” Grandma Liz made her gold suit and we printed her mask from the internet. Her R2 counterpart’s outfit is courtesy of an etsy shop called “The Wishing Elephant.”

We met some friends who were Powerpuff girls (aka Blossom and Bubbles) for a bit of a dance party and some early trick-or-treating.

First I set up the tent and Ezri took Ivan on a tour showing him the door and the window and telling him to call it an igloo.

Ezri then began adding “materials” she needed to the tent.

And she just kept adding materials. “Mama, we need lots of materials.”

“Ezri, can you even fit in the tent with all that in there?”
“YES!”