Ezri speaks

Ezri tells me this drawing is a giant with a cold. He wears a pink hat that his Uncle Tom made him to stay warm. His snot is pink. Later she decided that it wasn’t snot but a bloody nose like the one she got last winter when the air was so dry.

Here are a couple of other conversations with Ezri.

Our Charles Darwin doll wants to be “the king of all Grandpas.” To do this he must win The Grandpa Competition four times in a row. Ezri has combed his hair to perfect smoothness to prepare him for the competition. She tells me he will sing in the competition.

e: Amanda, the robots want me to have a donut.
A: Which robots?
e: R2D2 and C3PO’s friends.
A: The droids think we should drive through Dunkin’ Donuts?
e: Yes, the robots think Ivan wants a donut too. Robots like sprinkles.

Ezri taught me how to play Ball Bounce Bonanza. Put a ball in a bucket of water and dump it over your opponent’s head yelling “Ball Bounce Bonanza!” This game is best played in a wading pool.

We’ve also been making a lot of play dough worm families for whom Ezri narrates adventures. She makes them beds with worm pillows, blankets (worms need very long blankets) and teddy worms. She uses a worm voice to whine that they are hungry and in a weary voice Ezri says, “Okay, okay, okay, I will make you some food.” She helps them learn to use the potty. Nothing like helping a playdough worm use the playdough worm potty and wipe with playdough toilet paper and wash its wiggles (since it has no hands) and dry on the playdough towel. She makes them playdough balls to play with and she carries them around in a bucket for safe travel. “I made them the worm potty because they don’t want worm poop all over their house.” She made them a table and a bathtub too. She will declare, “I’m going back to the factory. The worms need a cozy!” This repeats for the many material needs of her worm family. Just when I thought they had all they could need, Ezri began work on a worm bookshelf with books. Everyone needs books.