Ezri speaks

Ezri helped reorganize the linen closet.
“I found a bunk bed. Ivan can sleep underneath my little shelf.”

Ezri likes to make up stories and ask “what if”:
“What if someone was driving away in our black car? And what if he was dressed like Darth Vader? And what if I was wearing my C3PO suit? What if Eric was Luke Skywalker and had a light saber? Then what would happen?”

Coming to my bed to wake me up in the morning, Ezri, with her hand on her neck, says, “I am checking to see if my heart is beating. I check every morning. Just to make sure.”

“Glib” means “no” in friendly alien language. I don’t know how friendly aliens say “yes.” Tells you a lot about the afternoon, doesn’t it? Ezri babbled in a made up language she called “alien” – but the language of friendly aliens not bad aliens. Sometimes she would translate for me and sometimes she wouldn’t.

In her c3po outfit Ezri would walk up to everyone she met and say, “Human cyborg relations.” Very few people could figure out what she was saying. Her preschool teacher asked me about it at her parent-teacher conference. Usually, she understands Ezri very well, but she couldn’t figure out what she was saying in her Halloween costume. She admitted a lack of Star Wars knowledge.

me: What do you think Grandpa Mark would like for his birthday?
Ezri: A My Little Pony! Cheerilee maybe?

After the re-election of president Obama while listening to NPR:
“Meghan helped OUR president again.”
I am not sure why the special emphasis on OUR but she repeated it several times. She is sure that Obama is all Americans’ president and that he belongs to her.
Meghan is a friend who volunteered for Obama’s campaigns.