Ezri’s grandparents hosted a passover seder Monday. We discovered she loves gefilte fish. Matzo balls are tasty, but gefilte fish was the item on the table she pointed at asking for more.
Here is a photo of her cheeks filled with fish.
She also ate some matzo cracker.
It is odd to have Ezri doing things for the second time. This was her second seder and it is her second spring. There are plenty of firsts left for our girl, but I can’t help but be amazed our daughter is more than one year old. Thanks for these photos, Grandma Liz.
Spring has sprung and that means time to play at the Morton Arboretum with friends. Charlotte is a full year older than Ezri, but very patient about showing Ezri how it is done. She played peek-a-boo with Ezri and gave her hugs. Ezri is not great at walking and holding hands yet, but with Charlotte’s guidance I think she’ll get there. The hand holding is so exciting that Ezri sometimes falls over.
Ezri has started trying things on.
She puts on her parents shoes sometimes over her own and drags them about the floor.
She tries to put on her coat by wrapping it around her shoulders.
She places her hat on her head. She makes an effort to put her sunglasses on her face. The sunglasses are key right now. Since Eric and I and the 4 grandparents and Aunt Amy all wear glasses, Ezri knows she wants to as well. She would go after glasses to try to wear them – usually expensive prescription glasses. Now, we can redirect her to her pink sunglasses from Aunt Coral when she starts going after ours. She likes to put them on and then go peek at herself wearing them in the mirror and smile.
In the photo above, she found clean underwear in my drawer and decided to use it for scarves. Very fashionable!
Sara and Sharon went to PLA and Ezri got this tutu from the Portland Art Market.
She likes it. Here we are playing outside in her spring frilly.
Tutu Hoo-ray!
Guess what? Tutu butt!
This outfit shows off my belly button.
Ezri is walking purposefully with a stick to wave about and she is wearing her tutu. I just find this photo to capture my daughter’s attitude about spring perfectly.
At naptime sometimes I read Ezri a story while she is in her crib not quite asleep.
Today we enjoyed Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox with illustrations by Helen Oxenbury.
Ezri liked the repetitive refrain and I think it did help her relax. She also likes to point out the fingers and toes in the illustrations when I say those words. She says “hi” to the babies in the book as well.
The photo has her in her wagon with her favorite Clifford phonics reader.
Another impressive development of the last week is puppet skills. Ezri knows puppets go on hands and she will request to have her spider puppet put on her hand. Then she will wave it around. She also likes to make her baby dolls dance. This involves wiggling them around on the floor to music.
Now that Ezri’s red birthday balloon has begun to sag after a month and a half bouncing around our ceiling, it’s time to share Ezri’s birthday video. It helps that Eric bought this new computer with a new version of iMovie.
Ezri really enjoys turning the pages and looking at the book Get That Lunch Box by Donna Taylor. It is a phonics reader I picked up for free somewhere and it features Clifford the Big Red Dog. I think it is her like of the color red and her advancing abilities turning the pages of non-board books that make this a favorite rather than any literary appeal. She doesn’t actually want it read to her. She just wants to turn pages and carry it around with her.
Where’s My Sweetie Pie? by Ed Emberley is a book Ezri enjoys having read to her. She also seems to want it read from front to back. She sits for the whole thing and lifts the flaps on each page. On each page the reader lifts flaps looking for the sweetie pie. “Behind this log? It’s a happy frog! But where’s my sweetie pie?” A log shaped flap covers a happy frog as one would expect. The final page features a locket in a pocket and inside the locket is a mirror and inside the mirror Ezri can see that she is my sweetie pie. She tends to kiss herself on in the mirror (or maybe lick, but it’s a friendly gesture). This book is a nice concept well executed with simple flaps and bright illustrations.
What Am I? a Look & See book from Sterling Publishing. It’s all about the concentric holes that decrease in size with each page that create the eyes of the animals in this book. Ezri’s little fingers love feeling the holes and poking through them. The stylized animals channel a bit of a 70s vibe for me. Ezri likes to hoo-hoo on the owl page and hiss on the snake page. It is a guessing book with a riddle on one side of the spread and the animal on the other. The riddles are pleasantly written and readable. This one has been read and played with mulitple times.
Ezri has been learning to eat with her spoon by herself. It’s messy but fun.
She’s been visiting with her aunt Amy and spending time with Grandma Liz as they’ve been babysitting for her.
There have been a number of sunny days which have meant trips to the park, the zoo and many a stroller walk. She loves playing with sticks and bark mulch. She really wants to climb up slides and tries to stand up when she slides down which is a bit scary as she could launch herself over the side of the slide.
At the zoo, the favorite thing she saw was a yellow feather duster that is from an area in the Family Zoo where you can pretend to be a zookeeper and pretend to clean up after the animals. “Ezri, there’s a lemur over there.” No, she’s not looking up she’s busy rubbing the floor with the yellow feather duster. She did enjoy seeing sea lions, gorillas, and snow leopards too. But, nothing was as cool as that feather duster. She did get to hiss at a real snake. Making a hissing noise at her snake fingerpuppet is big these days, so it was neat to introduce her to the genuine article.
Manchi has never scratched Ezri. He is gentle and loving despite the fact he is treated like a stuffed animal who needs squeezing and to be flopped upon.
Ezri is capable of gently petting our cats, but we are still working on showing her affection for the cats appropriately.
