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Here she is on her trike again.

Double fisting crackers after a busy morning splashing at the children’s garden.

Enjoying an ice cube in her nibbler to cool off.

Ezri likes things she can do all by herself.
Stairs she can climb without help.
Pushing the stroller without adult assistance.
This slide which she could climb up and slide down all by herself was a hit.
Thanks, trip to IKEA. The meatballs were also delicious.

One of Ezri’s new favorite things is to help water the plants.

Here she is helping Meghan water a tomato.

We recently met up with Ezri’s grandparents Liz and Harvey at Morton Arboretum. We had lunch at the cafe there, and then explored the Children’s Garden, and took a walk around the lake.

Ezri reaches for the camera

Ezri has signed up for her library’s summer reading club.
It is MAD SCIENCE themed. There is a lot to look at with the whole room decorated with experiments, lab rodents, and mad scientists turning it into the LIBAROTORY.

Ezri has added her lab rat to the maze.

She’s been signed up as member #1 by Miss Rachel in a lab coat and big black geeky glasses. Ezri wasn’t the first to sign up as we had some morning errands, but the librarians let her be #1 in the database of members – an honor. It also strikes me that library programs may be the one place that I won’t have to spell Ezri’s name when I register her.

Here is Ezri’s pal, Meghan, dressed as a lab rat.

We selected some books to read.

The whole process was so exciting that it tuckered Ezri out and she had a good nap afterward.

Ezri and her family recommend public library summer reading clubs to everyone. I will be signing up for the adult club.

I think Ezri is either working on her 2 year molars or she’s going rabid. I am pulling for the molars and glad she now likes biter biscuits.

Dance, Ezri Beatrice, dance!

She is using some clean laundry as a shaking flag.

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This isn’t a great photo, but it is a great game.
Ezri gets her spider puppet and puts it on her hand. Then I sing itsy bitsy spider and she dances around shaking her spider. It’s the dancing that makes it hard to photograph. So much wiggling.

Ezri is picking up heaps of words.
Her new playground vocabulary include “schweeng” for swing
“pah” for park
“baaah” for ball
“weeeee” for slide

Hop, Skip, Jump: A Very First Picture Book by Nicola Tuxworth:
This book has photos of young children (up to about 5 years old) moving. There’s marching, skipping, jumping, throwing and other styles of movement. What Ezri likes best about this book is pointing to body parts. She loves to say “knee” lately as it is one of her more accurately pronounced words. This means pointing out the knees in these photos is particularly fun. She also points to the hair, eyes, bellies and toes of the children in the photos. The photographs are great for this game where I ask her to “point to an ear.” She points to an ear. Then I ask her to “point to a mouth.” The game goes on until she is bored and onto other things. The children photographed in the book are racially diverse. The backgrounds have been edited out of the photos so the children stand against a white background which makes it easy to focus on the children and leaves an uncluttered page. This clean design seems easier for Ezri. There are other titles in the series we will have to check out including Food, Funny Faces, Baby Animals, Splish Splash, Wild Animals, Kittens, Machines at Work, and Farm Animals.

Ezri realizes sound comes out of the earbuds which she had previously supposed were for chewing.