Entries from May 2015 ↓

They are all stars. She sang her heart out, signed the alphabet, and delivered her line about the letter Z with gusto. Ezri says, “I did not fall off my riser – not even one time. Not even during rehearsal.”

Ezri was invited by a friend in our neighboring village of Westmont to march with her and the Girl Scouts in the Memorial Day Parade.

There was rain, but rain does not keep the exuberant Daisy Scout down. Rain is good for daisies. Helps them grow. They do not mind if you rain on their parade. At least, they still had a lot of fun marching.

Some conversations with Ezri over the last couple months.

Playing with sidewalk chalk, “I wrote Woo-hoo on that rock. You have to say ‘Woo-hoo’ when you step on it. Please, step on it now.”

“We are playing Ezri-quest. We must go to go talk to the whispering rock and learn its secrets.” Ezri is devising her own MagiQuest style games in our backyard.

e: I am the smartest girl in Kindergarten and Charlie is the smartest boy.
A: How do you know you are the smartest?
e: Well maybe not all the time the smartest. . . but most of the time.

Ezri has a theory about the power of friendship. It will solve the mystery of who stole the GPS from our car two years ago. It will get her a ride in a car on a car carrier. She told me once she has made friends with everyone in the world, “I will just ask my friends who took the GPS and they will tell me.” Mystery solved. She saw a car carrier and really wanted to ride in one of the cars on the back of the truck. I told her that was not safe and probably not legal. She told me, “When I am friends with everyone in the world, one of my friends will drive a car carrier and my friend will let me ride in one of the cars on the back.” It’s all about who you know. Ezri plans to know EVERYONE.

Her brother does not plan to know everyone. This exchange shows the difference in my two kids pretty well on the introvert/extrovert spectrum.
e: You can never have too many friends.
i: Yes, you can.

e: Can I have my own facebook page? I want to like the cute puppy myself.
She has learned what social media’s use is. She cannot have her own facebook account.

Interviewing her little brother with a notebook and pencil to write his answers.
e: Are we in America?
i: Yeah.
e: Is America cool?
i: Yeah. A little bit cool.

“You know I’m really just an ordinary girl. But, I do art. Art. Art!”

Yesterday my kids and their friends were pretending that zombies were attacking the lawn. They decided that since zombies attack humans they would cleverly disguise themselves as animals. Butterfly, owl, kitty and puppy would surely be safe from attack. I also heard them proclaim, “We’ll be safe from sharks too. They only eat fish and people.” My take away lesson is that after the zombie apocalypse it is the furries who shall inherit the Earth.

Backyard romping is great. Love this spring weather.

Queen Elsa (aka The Pink Magi) with her scepter (unicorn wand) and orb (hearty the bunny)

Dressed as Cinderella

Ezri went to her second ever professional sporting event today, a Chicago Fire Soccer game. Our friend Jason came along. Ezri had a hot dog, cotton candy, pink lemonade, and occasionally watched the field.

Reading Rex Wrecks It together on the futon.
Ivan loves making Sprinkles neigh and saying “Rawry” when Rex is sorry.
Ezri could read the whole book even if she didn’t have it memorized.

Last week in between a glorious spring walk with Meghan and her brother throwing up vividly blue “Blue Moon” ice cream, Ezri paused to read and then follow the directions posted on the hugging tree.