Here is Ezri wearing a cone on her head and singing Happy Birthday, Charlotte.
ON WORKING:
Ezri: I’m going to work.
Eric: Where do you work?
Ezri: Costco
Eric: You work at Costco?
Ezri: Costco!
Eric: What do you do there?
Ezri: I just play.
Eric: Nice work if you can get it.
Ezri: *big smile*
ON NAMING:
Ezri has realized she has the power to name things.
I offered her the opportunity to name her new sheep finger puppet.
Amanda: What’s his name?
Ezri: Nahhsis
Amanda: Nahhsis?
Ezri: No, Nahshes.
Amanda: Nahshes?
Ezri: No, Nahshes.
Eric: Ignatious?
Ezri No, Nahshes.
Amanda: Nauseous?
Ezri: Yes, yes, he is Nahshes.
Parental Laughter
Amanda: His name is Nauseous?
Ezri: Nahshes bonk balloon. Nahshes bonk balloon. (this while running the sheep puppet into the helium balloon from her birthday)
Eric: How about if we call him Ignatious?
Ezri: No, Nahshes!
We are glad the first toy she named is called Chubby Bear. But, Nauseous the sheep is her second self-named toy.
I haven’t posted much on Ezri’s reading habits, because we are mostly reading the same things over & over.
I am reading A LOT of Babybug magazine. Ezri has them memorized and will tell me what is coming on the next page before I turn it.
Ezri has in the last couple months started really liking Fancy Nancy by Jane O’Connor.
She loves the original story and seems sympathetic when Nancy slips getting ice cream sundae all over her fancy attire. We just got Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy today and after reading it she spent the night waving her two stuffed puppies around and talking about them. “Puppy says arf! arf” Ezri brought the puppies to dance while Eric played guitar. Ezri assured Eric of his musical skill by saying, “Puppy likes it!”
I don’t know exactly what it is about Nancy, but she definitely appeals and if she thinks puppies are cool so does Ezri.
This is disco time at the children’s museum. She’s chasing the gobo lights around the floor and every once in awhile she’d scream, “polka dots!” and point at the disco lights.
Her bedhead can be an all day affair – especially with hats and winter static in play.
Today Ezri pointed at a boy she was playing with and said, “Pee-yew stinky diaper.” We need to work on Ezri’s manners. She’s taken to asking for things “RIGHT NOW” and when asked to ask politely she smiles and then says, “Please. Apple Juice, RIGHT NOW, Mama.” This doesn’t sound anything like, “May I please trouble you for some apple juice at your earliest convenience, darling mother?” No, it doesn’t.
If you ask ezri what her favorite game is, she’ll say “baseball”. I think this has more to do with the song “William’s Doll” from “Free to be You and Me” than any true love of the sport. All the same, I couldn’t stop her from trying on this batting helmet.
Ezri found the dvd remote, mashed buttons, and successfully got to the title screen of the disc. She then turned to me, beaming, and said “i turned music on!”
ON COOKIES:
Me: Do you want a cookie, Ezri?
Ezri: Let’s do it everybody!!!
ON HANGING OUT:
Ezri: What’s going down?
Ezri answering her own question: Just sitting around and around and around and around. (It’s cuter if you can see the circular head wobble she does while saying this.)
ON GETTING DOWN:
Ezri: Get Down. Get Down. (as she gets out of her chair)
Ezri: Dada do Jungle Boogie.
ON BABIES AND MAMAS:
Me: Are you my baby?
Ezri: No.
Me: Are you my big girl?
Ezri: Yeahhhhhh. And Amanda is Ezri’s big mama.
Today was Ezri’s 2 year well check doctor’s appointment.
Ezri’s Weight = 30.33 lbs
Average 2 year old girl =28.4 lbs.
Ezri’s Height = 36 and 1/2 inches
Average 2 year old girl = 30 inches
She’s off the growth chart in height.
I forgot to take note of her head circumference since Ezri was screaming her head off about being at the doctor’s office at that point. I know I was not an easy child to take to the doctor, so this may be karma. But her head circumference is up in the 80th percentile. When she says, ‘Ezri is a big kid.” She is absolutely right.
Here’s a card Grandma Liz made Ezri for her birthday.
There’s no active percipitation.
It’s time to go to the park.
Upon getting outside Ezri said, “It’s sunny.”
Then she pointed up and said, “Ezri see moon.” Indeed, even with the sun shining you could see the moon in the sky.
It’s also warm enough that there are muddy puddles to stomp in.
I’m not sure why we were the only ones at the park this afternoon, but we had a good time. It was a little tricky to get to the park because while the rest of the neighborhood has shoveled their sidewalks, the park district has not gotten around to the sidewalk in front of the park. Ezri ran through the snow to the swings as if greeting old friends. It has been awhile.
She showed me how she can swing big girl style. “Ezri big girl swinging.”
I vetoed her ideas about climbing the jungle gym ladders or swinging on the monkey bars. Mittens and clunky wet boots are not safety tested for these activities and I decided we would not test them today.
She did slide down into the snowpile over & over again.
It was great to be outside and made me hungry for spring. We did hear twittering birds on our walk to the park. So, we know it will come.
For Ezri’s birthday, we had friends over to the house for a playdate.
Ezri got a BIG birthday hug from her pal.
We had Ezri’s favorite snacks with lots of fruit and cheese sandwiches. The two almost one-year-olds who attended did a good job on the cheese sandwiches.
We had a break to watch the train go by our window. You can also see our big icicles in this photo. Ezri calls them “bicycles.”
We shared Ezri’s favorite book Pete the Cat by Eric Litwin with her friends.
We did a rhyme with fingertapping.
We danced.
Ezri was not sure about cupcakes last year at her first birthday. This year she knows she likes them – especially these homemade chocolate ones where she got to pick the frosting color – GREEN(Thanks, Michele). She left nothing but crumbs which you can see all over her.
After her playdate, it was naptime. But in the evening the birthday celebration continued with a trip out to The Two Toots Cafe with her grandparents. Here she is watching the model train go by our table.
At Two Toots, Ezri got to ride Champion the Wonderhorse.
She loved the gentle ride on this ancient metal horse.
She even suckered grandpa into an additional ride by saying, “Put money in here,” and pointing at the coin slot.
After her ride she said, “Thank you, Champion.” Then “Ezri hug Champion” which she did. “Kiss Champion,” which she also did. When we left the restaurant Ezri made sure to say, “Bye-bye, Champion.”
A great second birthday of fun! Thanks to friends, toddlers, grandparents, and, of course, Champion the Wonderhorse.
Ezri enjoyed having all her grandparents together this evening.
She led us in “If You’re Happy and You Know It” and would point out those not singing or clapping with a request for them to join in. “Mama clap!” She did this direction while standing in the middle of the room with the seated parents and grandparents arrayed around her. She also led the alphabet song and performed ring-around-the-rosie happily falling over many times.
Ezri proved she now knows what a grandparent is with statements like “Grandma Liz Dada’s mama.” At one point she smiled big and said, ‘Ezri is granddaughter.” It’s good times being the only grandchild, kiddo.
She got her dad to play follow the leader for multiple circuits through the house. She got Grandma Liz to let her go through all the zippered pockets of her purse.
All this, plus, she received a Hello Kitty birthday balloon and had her first taste of moussaka which she approves of highly and was permitted fudgy pudding cake for dessert.
