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Since Ivan wanted a monkey-monkey photo, Ezri needed one too.
It appears we took the last one on her 4th birthday.
My how she’s grown!

Monkey-monkey spent part of the afternoon out in the secret base (aka tent) in the backyard.

Here is Ezri on her 4th birthday on her new pink&purple quilt with monkey monkey for scale.
If you ask your Grandma Liz for a pink&purple quilt a couple weeks before your 4th birthday and you are as lucky as my girl, you get one.
Ezri said, “I do not have any pink and purple quilts maybe Grandma Liz will make one for me for my birthday.”

Grandma Tam sent a PINK handknit unicorn with a sparkley yarn mane. Upon opening this present Ezri proclaimed that she loved the unicorn very much. Ezri has had all her plastic My Little Ponies ride on Pink Unicorn (she has creatively named her Pink Unicorn – can I call her P.U.?). Ezri insisted we take P.U. on her first car ride out to dinner on Ezri’s birthday. Ezri announced at bedtime that it would be Pink Unicorn’s first night sleeping in a bed. Yesterday we had Pink Unicorn’s first dance party. We played Classic Queen for the event.

with monkey-monkey for scale

Earlier in the day she requested that her face be painted like a kitty.
There are still tell-tale markings of her whiskers on her face in these photos.

Ezri found my monkey hat in the closet.
What you don’t have one of these in your closet?

Ezri put it on and said, “I am a big sister monkey.” She then ran to find her sock monkey and “here is baby brother monkey.”

She then taught her baby brother monkey important things like how to gently pet the cats.

She decided baby monkey needed to go for a stroller walk.

Here she is tickling her baby brother monkey.

Then we had to go inside. Ezri said baby monkey was hot and he needed a drink.

Here she is with monkey-monkey for scale.

She keeps getting bigger, but that monkey stays the same size.

She’s got ketchup on her face from our dinner out at Two Toots cafe.

Just as she was about to be 21 months, Ezri started declaring her age to be 20 months.
Enough people at the park and toddler classes have asked her age, that she learned the answer with no explicit teaching.
I was quite surprised when a mom at toddler tumbling asked how old Ezri was and she looked up and said, “Twenty months.”
Of course, it may be hard to re-train her that the answer is now “Twenty-one months.”

Other Ezri observations this week:

“Bagel Peel”
Ezri identified a banana peel and then pointed to the crust cut off her toast and declared it to be a bagel peel. Note that all bread eaten at breakfast time is referred to as “bagel” by Ezri.

Kitty t-shirt peekaboo
Ezri lifted the covers over the graphic of the kitty on my t-shirt and said, “Where is Kitty?” Then she pulled the covers down and said, “There he is!”

Rockabye Megamind
Ezri put her toy of Megamind (blue superhero from current movie picked up in airport happy meal) in her sweatshirt’s kangaroo pocket and twisted her hips from side-to-side singing, “Rockabye Megamind. . .”

Hedgehog Stuffed Animal Shaking Game that was made up on the fly and is now requested
“Shake your hedgehog! Shake your hedgehog! Yeah-Yeah!” to the tune of Shake Your Groove Thing.

“There’s a dinosaur on your arm on your arm” a very fun game to play with small plastic toys and parts of Ezri. As a bonus it is playable in vehicles, restaurants, and airplanes. She will spontaneously sing this one with an object in the backseat. I heard “There’s a baby on my arm, on my arm” on our last drive with her baby doll.

This month for the first time I forgot to try for a photo of Ezri and monkey-monkey on the 11th. I thought about it at some point during the day, but it was a busy Saturday of being out & about and it got lost in the shuffle.

Ezri is clearly more active in her play with monkey-monkey these days. She sent him down the slide and let him ride on her tricycle while we sang the Queen song Bicycle Race substituting in “tricycle” for “bicycle” in the lyrics. She now joins us on various of the songs her parents have co-opted to be part of her day. “Swing High Sweet Ezri Blau” to the tune of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. “It’s New Diaper Time” which I think is to the tune of “It’s Tail Whipping Time” from Biker Mice. “L-U-N-C-H” to tune of BINGO. “It’s Breakfast Time” to the tune of Business Time from Flight of the Conchords. “When I say, ‘pants,’ Ezri Beatrice, you best pants,” to the Violent Femmes tune. We sing Rubber Ducky in the bathtub along with singing “Bathtime, Ezri, bathtime, what kind of kid likes Ezri Bathtime” to an Armour Hotdog jingle. I like to think that in Ezri’s mind these songs are what all children hear with their families during their days.