Ezri Speaks

This came towards me chanting the Imperial March from Star Wars. She’s a stormtrooper.

This is a conversation we had in the car passing a pool hall in the same franchise that wouldn’t let Ezri in because she wasn’t 21 when she was being carried in a baby bassinet at a few months old. It was the first, and so far only time, Ezri has been carded.
Eric: It’s a pool hall, so you can go there to play pool. Well, you can’t because they serve alcoholic drinks.
Ezri: Alcoholic drinks?
Eric: Drinks for adults only. You have to be 21 to drink them.
Ezri: Oh, well, maybe when I’m a teenager.

Ezri has decided our family is a family of jokers. Or maybe it’s “Jokers” since she means specifically the villain from Batman. She is named Jokelina – part Joker and part Angelina the Ballerina. Eric is Joker. Amanda is Jokara. Ivan is our little baby Joke-ha. I referred to our house as “Blau House” in conversation and she told me that now it is Joker House.

Amanda: Brrrr. The car is cold this morning.
Ezri: Maybe you can knit the car a sweater. Yes, knit the car a sweater!

“What is the fancy word for boogers?”
We had just been talking about other “fancy” words for bodily fluids – saliva (fancy for spit), mucus (fancy for snot) and urine (fancy for pee). Guess I still need to teach her feces. If anyone knows a fancy word for boogers let me know. We’ve decided on “dried mucus” for now.

“Trick or CHEESE!” This is Ezri’s new way of asking for cheese after Halloween.