Ezri Speaks

Another collection of quotes and conversations with the three-year-old.

“It is naked party time!”
If your mind conjured a picture of a dancing, naked Ezri – that’s about right.

Playing with Cinderella flannel board:
Ezri: Why is the stepmama mean?
Me: I don’t know maybe she is jealous. Sometimes people do mean things.
Ezri: Maybe she needs more sleep.

In this same Cinderella play session I got the comment, “Mama, you are like the fairy mama. The fairy mama reads stories and kisses goodnight.” Guess we know what evil stepmothers do NOT do.

While discussing her medicine, “No not FLAVOR, how it tastes.”

Ezri: I want up!
Me: I want a clean house.
Ezri: UP! I want up!
Me: I want a good night’s sleep.
Ezri: Don’t say that. Up!
Me: Ezri, just ask nicely.
Ezri: Please, don’t say that.
And then I picked her up.

“Do monkeys have eyebrows?”

At her three-year well check, the doctor had a picture of a stick person with one eye and one leg. The directions were to ask your child what it was. A response of man, child, person, girl, snowman or the like would earn the child credit for passing some developmental milestone of stick person identification. I asked Ezri what the picture was and she said, “It’s a pirate. He has one eye.” We gave her credit and made the doctor laugh.

“What cheered him down?”
Ezri is a champion at making her little brother smile. She is an expert at cheering him up. After he bumped his head and wailed she asked, “What cheered him down?”