Entries from May 2012 ↓

Ezri declares herself Princess Celestia as we head to the park and dons her crown.

Her shirt is Yellow Submarine and has a flap that you can lift to see the cartoon Beatles. At Spanish class, Ezri showed her shirt to her teacher who asked “Quien es?” Ezri said, “John!” She then identified Paul and Ringo, but had to be reminded of George’s name. She also kept pointing at her shirt and singing, “We all live in a Yellow Submarine!” all day. Many adults in various locales were charmed by this.

We signed up for our summer reading club, Pizzeria Read, at the library on Monday morning when they opened. We are the first sign-ups of the year!

Another milestone is that last night for the first time Ezri walked around the block on her own two feet the whole way – no wagon, no stroller, no time in a parent’s arms, a totally Ezri-powered walk around the block.

Ezri and I use her blocks to make a zoo for her animals.

Collaborative Art with me. I did the drawing. Ezri did the painting.
She had fun deciding what colors things should be. She also added a spot of brown to be the red bird pooping on the house. We talked about how most bird poop is white.

Her drawings are starting to be more representative. Here’s a ladybug where I can totally tell what she was going for. I labeled it.

Here we are playing with the remote control robot I got for my birthday. His name is Hyjax. Ezri declares him to be “a good friend robot.” He’s great for her working on fine motor control and problem solving. Ivan likes to track him with his eyes. He does a cool robot spinny dance that I like to mimic. The cats – well, they have their own ideas about what a mini robot might be good for.

Here’s another collection of quotes by and spoken to Ezri.

“It looks like moose antlers.”
That was a toilet training comment. I am noticing many of this collection of quotes relate to the potty. You can tell what skills we are working on around here.

“Stop saying THAT! Stop saying that, mama. Say normal things that don’t make me cry.”
Ezri on my telling her repeatedly that it was her poor behavior had cut our expedition short.

Eric to Ezri when she was pulling at her pants, “Do you need to use the potty? Oh, no, you just still have a ladybug in your pants.” Ladybug in question was a plastic finger puppet.

Another parenting quote, this time from me. “Okay, Super Rainbow Flower Girl, you need to take your cape off to use the potty.” She had on rainbow striped pants, a floral shirt and a cape and had given herself the name “Super Rainbow Flower Girl.”

“I want to go to the red spiral place with the dot inside.” It took me awhile to figure out that she wanted to go browse Target. She knows the logo, but doesn’t remember the store’s name.

We read Ladybug Girl and The Bug Squad

We had a bug hunt for rubber bug fingerpuppets hiding on the porch.

We built a fort to be the base for bugsquad.

We made inside daisy chain art out of pipe cleaners and faux flowers.

We had snacks.

We rounded up two wagons and headed to the park.

We learned that our bug squad can fly. They just need swings with their wings.

We held slide race show downs.

Ladybug Girl proved she really is super strong by pulling the wagon home.