Entries from July 2012 ↓

She likes to eat them like apples. I had one too. It was garden delicious to be sure.

A couple scenes from the Splash Park:

Talking with Ezri:

“I want you to have another kid. I want you to have surgery and I will bring you buckety.”
Ezri was not really selling this concept by pointing out I would need a c-section and the bucket I carried with me during morning sickness (all 8 months of it).

Ezri talking to her friend K next to the sandpit.
K: You are my bestfriend.
e:I am your bestfriend? (tone of wonder and excitement)
K: Yes, we have lots of playdates. (matter-of-fact tone)
me (mom): Ezri, you need to put your shoes on if you’re done playing in the sand.
e: I need help.
K: I will help you that’s what friends are for.
(K and I each starting putting on one of Ezri’s shoes.)
e: It is good that I have two feet so my bestfriend and my mama can both help.

Singing in the back of the car – clearly making up her own lyrics to an upbeat tune:
“Everybody dies, but that’s okay. The dogs all die, but that’s okay. The pets all die, but that’s okay.” I guess she’s made her peace with mortality.

While squishing her playdough, “This is good for my thritis.” Her Grandma Liz made playdough with us and declared needed the warm dough to be good for her arthritis.

e: Is Lori coming today?
E: I don’t think Lori is coming today.
e: But I have a fish belly. It would blow her mind.

Singing while looking at stickers gifted to her by Charlotte:
I love you Charlotte.
yeah-yeah-yeah
I hope your mother likes you
yeah-yeah-yeah
I like my stickers
(I think this comes from an earlier discussion in which I talked about how I always love Ezri, but I do not always like her behavior.)

I explain to her, “If you can’t listen and go when asked you don’t get to walk yourself to the car. That’s the deal.”
Ezri declares, “That is NOT the deal. I take the deal and throw it in the garbage forever!”

“We ate macaroni and Todd Pie.”
She means Pad Thai.

ezri, to meghan: ‘do you want to see how cute i look wearing my pink swim floatie?’ pretty darn cute!

Ezri really loved being in the water with Meghan as her playmate. They were water kangaroos. I think Ezri was the baby water kangaroo hanging onto Meghan and together they were bouncing. They played baby water crocodiles and Ezri taught Meghan that crocodiles carry their babies in their mouths. Ezri worked on holding her breath underwater and she convinced Meghan to toss her in the air to practice cannonballs.

Ezri loved sand construction and delivering buckets of water to the moat of our sandcastle.

After beach adventures, Ezri had her first rice crispie treat ever. An important milestone to be sure.

Her one disappointment during the outing was that one must be 7 years old to go down the waterslide.

Here Ezri is helping test the new luggage and letting us know what’s really important to pack.

On many of these rides Ezri and her friend, Julia, were the only riders. I hope the carnies made their money in other hours of the carnival.

No waiting was tops for us.

Ezri picks the pink dragon and the pink car. Oh, the powerful allure of pink!

Ferris wheel with Eric

And a petting zoo too.

Glasses with attached mustache = classy

Here’s some Ezri quotes.

“I’m the center of contention.”

“I have a rumbly in my bumbly.” followed by fart noises.

Ezri is trying to work out what is funny. She is testing a theory that saying things obviously false to both parties is amusing.
“Eagles can’t fly.” Ezri laughs and then pauses, “Is that funny?”
“Don’t stop at stop signs.” Ezri laughs and then pauses, “Is that funny?”
Humor is tricky.

Ezri does know there’s such a thing as a bad joke.
She told me that “The Joker is a bad guy who tells bad jokes.” I’ve also learned he would probably take your snack instead of sharing his snack with you. That Joker is pretty evil.

Ezri is struggling with understanding that words have multiple meanings and that we speak in idioms.
I said “the proof is in the pudding.” And Ezri asked about pudding having a roof and then how do you eat it with its roof on.
I took off my glasses and said that “things were fuzzy.” Ezri was super puzzled as fuzzy means only like a furry teddy bear to her. She asked how that worked and if she could do it. Eric and I explained about the other meaning of “fuzzy.” The next day she took of her sunglasses and said, “Now everything is fluffy.” It took me a minute to figure out what she was referencing.

“I winned two times!” says Ezri. She won her second game too despite some fierce grandparental competition from Harvey and Liz.

She remains undefeated. . . for now.
She is also now the master of the 24 piece jigsaw puzzle.

It was triple digit hot, but we still went out the parade down Main Street. Needed to see our high school marching band and some classic cars and tractors and firetrucks and veterans and elected officials and girl scouts and the choral society singing from a flatbed truck. Ezri realized quickly this year that some folks were throwing candy. Her bag of parade goodies is being dolled out slowly over time – but she has lollipops and tootsie rolls aplenty.

It was so hot that Ezri and Eric went for snow cones before the parade started.

Here’s Ezri at the side of the parade route soaked in sunscreen with her snowcone.

Here’s Ivan wondering why he isn’t big enough for one of those snow cones yet. And how we expect him to stay cool without one.