Just another CarleSpawn weblog

When asked to say Happy Thanksgiving, Ezri said, “Thank you, Happsgiving!”
It was indeed a happy holiday.
Ezri ate turkey and apple sauce and discovered cranberry sauce for the first time. It was great to have her say “cheers” and raise her sippy cup during the meal for the first time.

Ezri was allowed to play with the Little People toys that belonged to her aunt and dad when they were kids. She loved the barn with its animals. Ezri delighted in putting plastic people around the table with the sticker that showed hot dogs and kool-aid on the table and saying, “yummy! yummy!”

Ezri’s Grandpa sang “I Am My Own Grandpa” for her and played the guitar. She banged on the piano while singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star or Froggy Went A-Courting. We did a lot of toddler dancing and moved dolls throughout the house pausing to inspect their belly buttons or add or remove their clothing. I find I have plenty to be thankful for.

Ezri is happy to have a doting house guest.

Here she is “playing naptime” with Amy. Real naptime is trickier, but she loves the play version. Also, bringing Amy blankets and stuffed animals to nap with was a great game. “Here you go!” as she delighted piles a stuffed ferret onto Amy’s face.

Amy is looking at photos with Ezri.

Here she is with a gift from Amy.
Seuss Classic in Yiddish.

Ezri is saying more and more.
She is making sentences.

Yesterday morning, I recorded what Ezri said for about an hour.
Here it is:
Say Moo. (Title of a book she could see on the floor)
Yes. (Answer to do you want to feed the cat?)
No, Sushi, no.
Cat food. Ezri feed. (Ezri loves helping feed the kitties in the morning.)
Hold hands, Mama.
Turn around and clap clap.
Yes. (the answer to do you want breakfast?)
Ezri yogurt – strawberries.
Let’s open this.
Baby sit right here (sitting her doll in a chair)
Pencil
E-Z-R-I Ezri (while scribbling with the pencil she found)
Miss Mouse Come Out Come Out Come Out (She knows it’s storytime morning)
Ezri get up. Sit.
Strawberries! Strawberries!
Mama yogurt too.
Bagel.
Dada Dada.
1,2,3,4 Jump!
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star How I Wonder What You Are
Look, Mama, This.
Manchi Manchi
Ezri stamp (pretending to put a stamp on her hand)
Kim cookies (looking at a Kim and Carrots story in Baby Bug Magazine)
Mama do it. Again.
Come here Sushi up.
Sushi read a book.
Boo!
Miss Kitty Cat.
Ezri cats in the morning. Meow. (request for a favorite song)
Puppy dance too. (She makes her puppet dance.)
Here ya go, Mama.
Bitsy Spider.
Patty Cake Patty Cake Baker’s Man Bake Me a Cake as Fast as You Can.
Stinky Diaper.
Baby Baby.
Rub-a-dub-dubby.
Ezri socks and shoes.
Horses in. (Pointing to a drawer where there are plastic ponies)
Dance dance! (Dancing her ponies to the music)
Where did nook go?
Ezri look for it.
Ezri pick a book. Hop Pop.
Ezri ouchy.
Go, go, mommy.

So, that’s it. That’s what Ezri sounds like these days.

Ezri sang this to the tune of “If You’re Happy and You Know It”
She is super happy that Sushi likes her bed for naps.

I am glad that the cats and toddler are proving increasingly friendly toward one another.

It is getting dark in the four o’clock hour which cuts into our post nap park walks. I will miss them this winter.

Thing I find too cute right now is that Ezri calls band-aids – rubberbands.
“Mama ouch foot. Rubber band on it.”
Less cute was the complete meltdown when the band-aid came off in the bath. Sobs of “rubber band. rubber band. nooooo.” A new one was put on the small, fully healed scratch right after the bath. Sometimes I guess a band-aid does just make it better.

Just as she was about to be 21 months, Ezri started declaring her age to be 20 months.
Enough people at the park and toddler classes have asked her age, that she learned the answer with no explicit teaching.
I was quite surprised when a mom at toddler tumbling asked how old Ezri was and she looked up and said, “Twenty months.”
Of course, it may be hard to re-train her that the answer is now “Twenty-one months.”

Other Ezri observations this week:

“Bagel Peel”
Ezri identified a banana peel and then pointed to the crust cut off her toast and declared it to be a bagel peel. Note that all bread eaten at breakfast time is referred to as “bagel” by Ezri.

Kitty t-shirt peekaboo
Ezri lifted the covers over the graphic of the kitty on my t-shirt and said, “Where is Kitty?” Then she pulled the covers down and said, “There he is!”

Rockabye Megamind
Ezri put her toy of Megamind (blue superhero from current movie picked up in airport happy meal) in her sweatshirt’s kangaroo pocket and twisted her hips from side-to-side singing, “Rockabye Megamind. . .”

Hedgehog Stuffed Animal Shaking Game that was made up on the fly and is now requested
“Shake your hedgehog! Shake your hedgehog! Yeah-Yeah!” to the tune of Shake Your Groove Thing.

“There’s a dinosaur on your arm on your arm” a very fun game to play with small plastic toys and parts of Ezri. As a bonus it is playable in vehicles, restaurants, and airplanes. She will spontaneously sing this one with an object in the backseat. I heard “There’s a baby on my arm, on my arm” on our last drive with her baby doll.

This photo is exceptional because Ezri is playing happily with all the cats present and untormented.
Ezri is giving Sushi crayons. “Here, Sushi!” and “This one.”
Sushi isn’t so interested in the game, but she’s happy enough.

Check out those matching grey sweatshirts. Looking good, father and daughter.

We took a walk around the block and, while she was carried for some portion, Ezri walked much of the distance on her own two feet.

Things about my little girl that are new.
1) Past Tense
I am hearing more past tense. It’s still new but she knows that verbs ending in -ed mean things have already happened.
2) Doorknobs.
She can open the door to her bedroom and she is getting out of her bed on her own. Now, instead of calling “mama” from her crib. She is standing knocking on the door to her room calling for one or both of her parents. Maybe someday we’ll wake up before she does. Then again, maybe not.
3) Doll Play
She had Eric do the entire bedtime routine with stories in the rocking chair and songs for her baby doll last night at her direction. She also will say, “Baby up,” and pick up a baby doll. Then pat its back saying, “it’s okay. it’s okay.”
4) Manners?
Every once in awhile unprompted she says, “please” or “thank you” or most endearingly, “thank you, mama.”

Ezri is learning her colors. She really likes to say the word “purple.” The double “p” sound is just fun. There are plenty of books about colors, but here are two we’ve enjoyed recently.

Carlo Likes Colors by Jessica Spanyol
Carlo, a young Giraffe, sees different colors in the places he goes. Each two page spread shows Carlo in a picture dominated by a particular color. “Carlo sees blue at the pool.” There is then the opportunity to point at all of the blue items in the picture. “Carlo sees purple in the garden.” It’s time to point at eggplants, plums, and flowers. After Carlo has seen all the colors, he’s shown in a room decorated with childlike artwork in all the colors. The final page informs the reader that Carlo also likes to beep and shows Carlo in a toy car saying “beep beep.” This ending is perfect.

Will you wear a blue hat?
This Rookie book just stays fun as the boy gets dressed for cold weather in primary-colored clothing. I have used it as inspiration to sing the “Will you wear your x-color clothing item?” as Ezri gets dressed in the morning.

Reading with friends is even more fun.