Ezri speaks

This is Ezri the morning after losing her first tooth with a gap-toothed smile.

Ezri has been doing a lot of wishing lately. Here is a collection of recent quotes starting with some of her wishes.

“I wish no one had to die.  Not even old people until they were ONE HUNDRED.” One hundred is the largest number Ezri can conceive of.

“I wish I could have a brownie every day in the morning.  Chocolate has caffeine so it is good in the morning.”

“I wish the whole house was filled with tomatoes and scrambled eggs.  I would chomp, chomp, chomp my way through.”

 
e: I wish I was a cat.

A: Think of all the things you couldn’t do if you were a cat. Like go to preschool or eat pudding.

e: I wish I was half cat and half girl

“I wish all my grandparents and best friends all lived in Bozeman so I would not miss any of them.” We were in Bozeman when she said this visiting the maternal grandparents.

After an epic fall on the pavement, Ezri was told if she’d been less silly while walking she would not have fallen and saved herself the pain. Her answer, “I was not being silly. I was pretending my two feet had different jobs to do.” We’ve explained her feet should be a team working on one job at a time.

“How old do you have to be to read?” She wants to read her own stories, but aside from the ones she’s memorized she’s really not there yet. She recognizes some sight words and is learning her letter sounds. We told her that like a lot of things there wasn’t one age it happened, but we’d help her if she wanted to try.

Eric was downstairs supervising the kids and I was cleaning up in the kitchen. I went down to see if he needed any help, but the photo below shows he had it in hand. I asked the kids what daddy was doing. Ezri said sleeping. Ivan made snoring noises.