Entries from October 2009 ↓

The Junior Room librarians let Ezri crash their Wizard of Oz trio as one of the witch’s monkeys. Thanks, Junior Room.

We started our Halloween at the Downers Grove Library for Miss Sharon’s Halloween storytime and stopped for a snack with friends.

At home , Ezri took my apple and actually bit off pieces and chewed and swallowed some of them. Other pieces of apple ended up on her clothes and the futon. I am still impressed.

This is Ezri in her Rose Weasley costume as the littlest Gryffindor.
I am sure Ron and Hermione dressed their daughter just like this for alumni weekend at Hogwarts.

Ezri has started to crawl. Just a few forward moves at a time, but she will work herself towards a goal. She crawled over to this open book to look through the pages of Alien Opposites.

Her favorite book of the week is Funny Face by Nicola Smee.
It has a plot which occurs on the left hand pages and on the right side a big face of the boy character’s reaction to the plot. A bear comes and steals the boy’s ball. He makes an ANGRY FACE in response. When the bear returns with more bears. He makes a WORRIED FACE. In the end the bears play ball with the boy – HAPPY FACE. The final page is a mirror for you to practice your own faces. Ezri loves the mirror. She puts her face very close – sometimes close enough to lick the mirror.

Ezri is watching the leaves fall in her monkey suit.

Her grandma and great-nana decided she needed a monkey suit and I think she likes it.

Is she Halloween ready or what?

Ezri likes to put hay in her mouth. Amanda does not like removing it. We didn’t hangout here by the hay bales for too long.

The acorn tunnel in the toddler garden is a good spot for Ezri to roll around.

Ezri loves the swings, but other playground equipment at the local park has also become interesting to her.

Another Wednesday means it is time to talk about what Ezri is reading.

Ezri likes books with human faces both those with photographs and those with drawings that are relatively realistic.

Eric read her Look at You! A Baby Body Book by Kathy Henderson.  She enjoyed pointing at and smiling at the faces in the book.
This leap of recognizing not only photos as people, but also drawings as people is exciting.
This book has a number of faces that are looking out at the reader and not in profile. These faces looking out at Ezri got the biggest response.
The book shows babies going through their day – playing, eating, bathing, crawling, dressing, getting their diapers changed and sleeping. It will be a good book for Ezri to recognize the activities that are part of her day as she gets a bit older.