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Ezri is really enjoying her rake.
She likes to have an adult help her make a “little leaf nest.”

This year Ezri and I painted T-shirts with “E” for Eric and “e” for ezri and a onesie with “i” for ivan.

Here is Ezri at work on the Father’s Day gifts.

Adoring their dad?

And this one just makes me smile.

Ivan has just learned to eat “baby kibble” which is my word for the assorted crunchy puffs given to babies just learning the next edible step up from mush.

Last week, Ezri, Ivan and I had happy hour on the porch with a bag of Trader Joe’s White Cheddar Corn Puffs.

These photos share the joy of a happy hour on the porch with the Blau kids.

CHEERS and CRUNCH!

It’s going to be a long big sisterhood for you, Ezri.

Here she is pouting that she can’t control the actions of her little bro.

I told Ezri that as a girl I had a dog named Shorty.

At the park today she declared herself to be a dog named Longy. She stretched out on the park bench and said, “I am Longy because I am so long. Longy is a good dog.” She pointed at Ivan in my lap, “That is Shorty.” We proceeded to play puppy, I threw a stick for Longy and she would run to it tuck it under her chin and return the stick to me. Even when we pretend puppy, we do not put sticks in our mouths. That is going too far. Ezri told me, “Amanda, you are Longy’s owner.” In addition to fetch, Longy knew how to sit, lie down, shake hands, roll over and jump. She was not very good at stay, but better at the command “Dance!” than any dog I’ve met.

Longy and Shorty play ball.

Ezri: I’m playing sit on Ivan.
Me: Oh, Ezri
Ezri: It’s okay. He likes it.

She was right.
He did.

We played a game where Ezri looked for trees she was big enough to hug. There was a large tree that took all three of us (Ezri, Liz, and I) to make a ring-around-the-tree with our arms. No photographer was available to photograph that tree hug. Here Ezri has found one just her size for hugging.

The glade was full of daffodils.
Ezri played “leap daffodil” and was much more respectful of not knocking over flowers than last year. She walked around and through them.

We took a walk through the woods to Lake Marmo and saw a hawk along the way. This is Liz and Ezri looking at the hawk.

Though she was tired after the walk and asked about being carried, Ezri was reinvigorated by the promise of a bunny snack (gummy fruity treat) and walked all the way back up the trail from the lake on her own. She enjoyed digging in bark mulch and finding sticks. Ivan enjoyed napping and trying to eat the grass.

Here we are after snack under a tree.

I feel like with plenty of time to play with photoshop I could turn these two photos into one decent snapshot.