Entries from April 2010 ↓

Ezri uses her wooden duck toy more like a scepter than like a push toy.

Eric decided this outfit was coordinated lest you think Ezri is dressing herself.

Ezri is now reading bath books. We read Sandra Boynton’s waterproof wonder Barnyard Bath in which the reader is invited to scrub various barnyard animals with her washcloth. The final page tells the reader now it’s time to scrub you and the back cover thanks the reader for getting clean. The rhyme is simple the action of scrubbing the pages is fun and it is a perfect way to combine working on literacy and cleanliness.  Plus, it is opportunity to make some barnyard animal noises and what toddler doesn’t like that?

Eric has mounted our old laptop on a cube for Ezri. She can browse the internet (she likes lolcats) and type on the keys just like her parents.
My first computer was an Apple II with a great program my mom made that let me create ice cream cones. It even had color if the parents let me hook it up to the TV screen otherwise all ice cream scoops were some shade of green. I think I was a t least 3 before I got to play with the computer. Ezri has her own laptop (outdated to be sure) at just a year old and it is wirelessly attached to the Internet.
Also, as the photo shows she totally respects the machine.