Entries from July 2010 ↓

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DOH.

Ezri knows how to use a stepstool. She puts it under things that we don’t want her to have (like the keys up on their hooks) and then gets them. Way to use tools, Ezri.

She also thinks it’s a fun standing spot. It’s nice to be tall.

Eric brought home homemade cookies from Michele. They were in a bag on the floor. Ezri looked in the bag and I heard, “Cookie! Cookie!” This was my first knowledge of the bag or its contents. Nothing gets past Ezri. Her mother is less swift. In good parent fashion, I made her wait until after dinner, but Ezri is a newly hatched cookie monster. This recipe for chocolate chip cookies is the one that introduced her to cookies and they are favored over other cookies she has met. Thank you, Michele.

If you listen closely you can hear her say, “cookie.”

Today Ezri particularly enjoyed reading Crunch Munch by Jonathan London. There is an animal eating on each page with text that describes how that animal sounds while they eat. “How does a cow eat? Moo-o-o-o chew, moo-o-o-o chew.” The illustrations by Michael Rex are big and the animals were easy to identify. Ezri enjoyed the noises from the “sluuurp- GULP” of the aardvark using his sticky tongue to snag ants to the “RIP-scrunch” of the giraffe pulling leaves from a tree. Noisy, chewing, animal fun.

She also enjoyed Does a Cow Say Boo? by Judy Hindley
Children run all over the barnyard looking at various animals for one that says BOO! They see birds that tweet and hens that cluck. They spend a very nice spread looking at bugs, worms, and snails in the grass. Here the text points out, “some little creatures say nothing at all.” The penultimate page shows the group of the children hiding their eyes. “What do you say now?” On the final page, all the children have uncovered their eyes to say, “Boo!” The children have discovered who says boo. Ezri had me do these last two pages over & over.

So, we found two books that Ezri sat all the way through more than once. That’s like a two thumbs up review from someone whose attention span is only about a year and a half old.

Ezri likes to try putting her clothes on herself.
Here she has put on her sunglasses.

Here she has put both legs into one hole of her undershorts.

Ezri has a toy that includes a number of two piece puzzles. One of these puzzles has a piece with an item (strawberry) which has a corresponding adjective puzzle piece (square of red). She has been able to look through the pieces for a specific piece for awhile now. If you ask her to find the cow piece, she will look through until she finds it and hold it up and say “moo.” Yesterday, she found the spotty piece with a spotted square on it. She held up the spotty piece and said, “dog.” The dog is a dalmatian and the piece she was holding matched the dog piece. This sounds small, but her parents are pretty darn impressed.

Brilliant statement by Ezri on a morning I was having trouble getting going:
“Mama sleepy coffee”
That’s practically a sentence.

Another good moment was when Eric was sleeping in and Ezri was ready to see him. She brought me the telephone I use to call Eric when he’s on his way home from the lab and said, “Dada soon.” translation: Call dad and make him come home. Oh, Ezri it is 8 in the morning and he is sleeping behind that closed door. I told her he was sleeping and she walked right over to the bedroom door and said, “door.” Translation: open this door so I may wake my sleeping father and have him play with me. I made her wait another 45 minutes. When we opened the door she walked to the foot of the bed and said “tickle.” Translation: Please put me up on the bed and tickle me.

Ezri is also expanding her repertoire of imaginative play. She likes to buckle her stuffed animals into her high chair and her stroller and her carseat. If there is no handy doll or animal, she will buckle in her sippy cup or send the cup down the slide. She feeds or gives drinks to toys, her parents, and photos of people or animals.

Yesterday, at Ezri’s request, we buckled in her stuffed weasel to the high chair. He then needed a bib. Ezri then brought some toy food and her sunglasses. Weasels apparently like fake carrots and need sunglasses while they eat.

Adam let Ezri have the driver’s seat. She particularly enjoyed being in the car all by herself and playing peek-a-boo with Adam through the windshield. The dashboard buttons were also a hot item.

Katie provided a comfy seat and proof that all the stylish young ladies are sporting bruised knees this season.

Ezri had a lot of fun entertaining good friends in the backyard. Her parents did too.

She’s crazy for peaches.

She loves to explore her world, and inspect everything that she finds. I guess we’ll have to find a new place to store the PBR.

Fortunately, she doesn’t yet know how to open cans, so no beer was consumed.

Ezri emphatically declined the Heineken

Lately Ezri prefers her clothing with lots of colors on it – like these rainbow shorts.