{"id":742,"date":"2009-12-09T13:24:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T20:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/?p=742"},"modified":"2009-12-09T14:05:29","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T21:05:29","slug":"a-new-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/?p=742","title":{"rendered":"A new tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week Ezri and I went to Anderson&#8217;s Bookshop and  gave a gift to their holiday Angel Tree.  I&#8217;ve been giving to this book charity since I moved to Downers Grove in 2001.\u00a0 We found a girl about Ezri&#8217;s age (8 mos. named Dorothy) and picked out a book present for her.  She got a Very Hungry Caterpillar toy (because at 8 months you need something fuzzy and mouthable) and the board book of The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle.  I picked out a teenager and got some paperbacks for her.  I am hoping we can pick a child in need around Ezri&#8217;s age each year and eventually she will help me pick out the books to give.<\/p>\n<p>In her own reading habits, Ezri is still all about fuzzy and textured books this week.  A current favorite is Quack! Quack! Baby Touch and Feel from Priddy Books.  It features textured barnyard animals and as a bonus some of the text on each page is also fuzzy.  It&#8217;s like they created a fuzzy font just for Ezri.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s also become a big fan of pointing these days including pointing at books and things in books (especially the cats for some reason).<\/p>\n<p>Here she is pointing.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-741\" title=\"pointing\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.ezriblau.com\/2009\/12\/pointing.jpg\" alt=\"pointing\" width=\"450\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/2009\/12\/pointing.jpg 450w, http:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/2009\/12\/pointing-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Ezri and I went to Anderson&#8217;s Bookshop and gave a gift to their holiday Angel Tree. I&#8217;ve been giving to this book charity since I moved to Downers Grove in 2001.\u00a0 We found a girl about Ezri&#8217;s age (8 mos. named Dorothy) and picked out a book present for her. She got a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}