Entries Tagged 'at play' ↓

Ezri has been devoting a lot of time to bathing and styling her plastic ponies.

She likes to give them baths almost each afternoon lately.

So, it wasn’t surprising when this pony was the big hit from the bag of resold play dough toys.
First you feed it snacks – often extruded “french fries” from another play dough toy.

Then it grows a mane and tail which Ezri can style and then trim with the play dough scissors.

And if your little brother cuts off all it’s hair, you can always make more.

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.

When the Jedi are wounded, Ezri takes them to the hospital where they get tucked into beds made of food. They also get bounced up and down on a row of muffins for exercise until they need to nap and fed plastic strawberries for strength.

I love how kids can make a baby doll of anything. Jedi like bedtime songs when they are hurt. I think my girl may be a Jedi herself.

Darth got a lettuce blanket because he is a bad guy.

Introducing Wonder Ezri. . .

Powers ACTIVATE

Yes, this Wonder Woman head piece was definitely $1 well spent. It brought more than $1 worth of joy to Wonder Ezri. She has her princess pony sidekicks in her hands.

In the afternoon while we worked on putting together an Avengers puzzle (also $1), Ezri kept commanding “Avengers Assemble.”

We played delivery. Ezri also brought me cupcakes, oranges, and an imaginary pizza with olives.

She then took her baby doll and the sand pail she found on the porch and proceeded to have Baby Lily make retching noises into the bucket. She took good care of her sick Baby Lily and we were both grateful that the vomit was only pretend. I did not photograph Baby Lily’s illness.

We made the play dough so the food coloring bottles were handy to decorate becoming his eyes and nose.

Ezri loved him and promised to keep him safe. Though later we ate his M&Ms and squashed him to make birds, a nest, eggs, a merry-go-round and a bunch of snakes.

Ivan and Dolly and Madison and Baby Cory are all invited. We are having tea and bottles and knitted cupcakes and plastic ice creams.
Dolly is the hostess, so she pours the tea for everyone.

Friends leaving town have gifted the kids with this fun playhouse. We need to get a new bolt to put on the other half of the roof, but it’s fun as a convertible.

Ezri thought cleaning it up with a big, pink sponge was great. We sploshed soapy water all over the play house and it was fun and somewhat effective and the sponge was pink which Ezri loved.

Coming out.

Going in.

Coming out again.

You know, Ezri, it does have a door.

She made me pretend alphabet soup in the kitchen. I had to wait outside, because I was the pet and she was the owner. This worked because I don’t really fit in the playhouse comfortably. Ivan also loves the house.

“I want this mustache to be a masterpiece.”

“See, Ivan, easy as peasy.” Showing her brother how to craft.

Meghan: What’s the hardest part of being a big sister.
Ezri: The special smell.

Ezri: BEE-BO PINATA! BEE-BO PINATA!
Amanda: What is a bee-bo pinata?
Ezri: It’s a pinata shaped like a bee-bo.

Rodeo bookstore is a game where Ezri lays out books from our collection and offers them for sale while she plays her harmonica.
She also “speaks rodeo” which involves speaking through her harmonica. It’s a trick to understand.
Eric made up a song we sing when we play rodeo bookstore, “Going to the rodeo bookstore and we’re gonna have a good time.”
I am usually the customer. Though lately Ivan has learned to play. You ask the bookstore lady (Ezri) if she has a book on a topic and she gets it for you and sells it to you for pretend money. Ivan walked up and said “Baby” and Ezri happily sold him a Peekaboo book with a baby on the cover.

“The pink ninja goes like this” (lots of spinning and jumping and thumping).
“I will teach to be PINK NINJA!”

Ezri: I’m the Las Vegas call girl!
Me: You’re the Las Vegas call girl?
Ezri: No, no, no Las Vegas cow girl. Like in the lights.
Me: The Las Vegas cowgirl?
Ezri: Yes, I ride cows and have that circle rope thing.
I think we are referencing this: Neon Cowgirl Sign
Though the neon Vegas cowgirl does not have a lasso. She is also not riding a cow.

This picture is Ivan and Ezri in the story box they made. It has stars drawn on the inside and buildings and a girl with rainbow pigtails.

Ezri loves this new drill set. It comes with a drill and screwdriver and wrench and many colored bolts.
The pieces screw together just perfectly. Eric says it has just the right amount of torque for preschoolers. Ezri likes being a fixer. She also enjoys making patterns with the colored screws. Even her brother can get in on the action by placing the bolts where Ezri can then drill them down.
“I am really good at screwing!” she says.
Here is the drill girl at work.

Ezri with her finished design. Voila!