Entries from May 2011 ↓

She told us she was going to tell us a story and then told us this:

“There’s a little girl named Tam and she knows she had a bunny rabbit. And the big, bad wolf comed around and blowed the house down. And where’d the house go? Uh-OH! And then the tickling.”

Picnic in the backyard this afternoon:

At the park:

Over the bridge. . .

Not Ezri’s best slide.

Getting ready for dinner:

Learning the fine art of husking corn.

Putting her husking skills to the test.

Corn on the cob is something the whole family enjoys. YUM!

Playing dress-up with Meghan, Ezri put on this ensemble with small hat and fur stole and declared, “I look like a grown-up.”
We can think of no grown-ups in her life who wear this sort of thing.
If she’d put on blue jeans and converse sneakers and said she looked like a grown-up we’d know where that came from.
I figure the idea must be from her books. . .
Here she is all “grown-up.”
Thanks for the photo, Meghan!

As Eric strums the guitar, Ezri sings us a ditty. We think she’s made up the lyrics herself, but you can tell us if you’ve heard this one before.
“Panda be a polar bear
Panda bear be a polar bear
Polar bear gets to be a parrot NOW.”

Eric bought me a contoured pillow to help with the expected future back pain of the third trimester.
Ezri got the bonus present of this awesome box.

She was not interested in sharing it with the cats, so they had to wait until after Ezri bedtime to play with it.
Ezri requested to play hide and seek tonight.
“Mama, you count. I will hide in the box.”
Okay, but it isn’t going to be that hard to find you, sweetie. . .

She told us she was “bunny Ezri” and the box was her cage.
She roared and told us she was “Ezri lion” and the box was her cage.

At one point, I tried to huff and puff and blow her box house down.
She said, “No, no, it’s bricks!”

I can see why Ezri loves the book Not a Box by Antoinette Portis.

Ezri calls these “big sister” pigtails.
This was our first attempt to put her in pigtails.
She wanted them.
She did not want to hold still to get them.
I tried and failed, but Eric managed to get two very uneven “big sister” pigtails in her hair.

I put my hair in pigtails and Ezri declared proudly that we “matched.”
She is very big into identifying things that match.
Yesterday, Ezri and I matched because we were both wearing tank tops.
Today, we matched as we were both wearing raincoats.
Big Bird and bananas match because they are both yellow.
Sometimes, she will declare a match and it will take me awhile to figure out that both items mentioned are say food and thus match in edibility. Sometimes, I don’t figure out why the two things match, but I am sure there is a metric by which they do.

Here she is obviously pleased with her pigtails.

If the pigtails make the big sister, it is good Ezri has a few months to grow hair and patience before her baby brother arrives.

Ezri went to her first major sporting event – a Colorado Rapids game.
The weather was sunny and mild.
The soccer was fun to watch in small doses between trips around the stadium to check things out.

Ezri learned to say “boo!” at the officials’ poor calls and was delighted to find a place where screaming with her outside voice was appropriate and even encouraged. When the crowd screamed Ezri joined in. Although, I think she only barely understood that two teams were competing, she definitely got that when everyone else yelled and clapped she could too.

The stadium had a stand selling mini donuts which you could watch being made. And if you are two pregnant ladies with a toddler, they seem to give you lots of extra donuts. Yum!

The Rapids have 4 mascots and a pizza stand with a giant pizza man mascot out front. Ezri got to meet Edson the Eagle. She gave him high fives, fist bumps, and chased him down later to give him a hug.

Our party of five (or eight with fetuses) had a good time at the game.
Can you tell which of us is having twins?
Okay, she’s also 5 weeks more pregnant.
In my humble opinion, we look pretty fabulous.

The weather has finally come around, and Ezri has been enjoying it while visiting Coral and Jason.

Ezri found a bag of sidewalk chalk on the porch and was very excited to go out and put it to use.

She would scribble on the driveway and then jump on her scribble and say, “hopscotch!”

I made her a hopscotch board, but it was much better to hop on her own squiggles.

We waited by the door of the library and were the first ones to sign up for Summer Reading Club this summer.

Ezri wore her crown craft from a recent birthday party especially to sign up for the club which has a fairytale theme and is called “Into the Reading Woods.”

In the car and on our way to the library. . .

Ezri was fascinated by the giant footprints leading to the children’s desk. She liked looking at the fairy houses that decorate the desk. The dragon hanging over the desk impressed her as well. She got to be the very first to sign up. We knew the #2 and #3 sign-ups from park district programs. Ezri enjoyed pointing out where to post her paper dragon with her name on it to officially enter her in the club.

Here she is with a fairy wall.

The library is decorated all over. So we took a tour looking at all the new things. She liked looking at the three bulletin boards one for each of the little pigs. There is a room filled with princess dresses. Ezri is interested in wearing them all especially the white one, good thing they are secured higher up than she can reach. She said, “ponytail” for the Rapunzel braid hanging down from a tower window. She also enjoyed spotting gnomes and the library puppet, Miss Mouse, in her own version of princess and the pea. I am glad “gnome” and “giant” are now firmly in her vocabulary.

We then proceeded to read enough books to fill a whole level of the club which is ten books. Though, I’ve decided each day she will pick a favorite book of the day to write down because writing down everything we read would take us through the process too quickly at this age. This is the first year that she has the idea that she is in the club which after many years working to put these clubs together is just too cool for me.

The exhausted Ezri would not get into bed today for her nap.
So, I left her room while she shouted that she did not want to go bed.
In a few minutes her room grew quiet.
I peeked in. She had pulled her blanket over to the rocker to nap.
She meant it about not getting into bed.
Though, she didn’t really wake up when I carried her over and tucked her in.