Just another CarleSpawn weblog

Eric has mounted our old laptop on a cube for Ezri. She can browse the internet (she likes lolcats) and type on the keys just like her parents.
My first computer was an Apple II with a great program my mom made that let me create ice cream cones. It even had color if the parents let me hook it up to the TV screen otherwise all ice cream scoops were some shade of green. I think I was a t least 3 before I got to play with the computer. Ezri has her own laptop (outdated to be sure) at just a year old and it is wirelessly attached to the Internet.
Also, as the photo shows she totally respects the machine.

Ezri’s grandparents hosted a passover seder Monday.  We discovered she loves gefilte fish. Matzo balls are tasty, but gefilte fish was the item on the table she pointed at asking for more.
Here is a photo of her cheeks filled with fish.

She also ate some matzo cracker.

It is odd to have Ezri doing things for the second time. This was her second seder and it is her second spring. There are plenty of firsts left for our girl, but I can’t help but be amazed our daughter is more than one year old.  Thanks for these photos, Grandma Liz.

Spring has sprung and that means time to play at the Morton Arboretum with friends. Charlotte is a full year older than Ezri, but very patient about showing Ezri how it is done.  She played peek-a-boo with Ezri and gave her hugs.  Ezri is not great at walking and holding hands yet, but with Charlotte’s guidance I think she’ll get there.  The hand holding is so exciting that Ezri sometimes falls over.

Ezri has started trying things on.
She puts on her parents shoes sometimes over her own and drags them about the floor.
She tries to put on her coat by wrapping it around her shoulders.
She places her hat on her head. She makes an effort to put her sunglasses on her face. The sunglasses are key right now. Since Eric and I and the 4 grandparents and Aunt Amy all wear glasses, Ezri knows she wants to as well.  She would go after glasses to try to wear them – usually expensive prescription glasses. Now, we can redirect her to her pink sunglasses from Aunt Coral when she starts going after ours. She likes to put them on and then go peek at herself wearing them in the mirror and smile.
In the photo above, she found clean underwear in my drawer and decided to use it for scarves.  Very fashionable!

Sara and Sharon went to PLA and Ezri got this tutu from the Portland Art Market.

She likes it. Here we are playing outside in her spring frilly.

Tutu Hoo-ray!

Guess what? Tutu butt!

This outfit shows off my belly button.

Ezri is walking purposefully with a stick to wave about and she is wearing her tutu. I just find this photo to capture my daughter’s attitude about spring perfectly.

At naptime sometimes I read Ezri a story while she is in her crib not quite asleep.
Today we enjoyed Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox with illustrations by Helen Oxenbury.

Ezri liked the repetitive refrain and I think it did help her relax. She also likes to point out the fingers and toes in the illustrations when I say those words. She says “hi” to the babies in the book as well.

The photo has her in her wagon with her favorite Clifford phonics reader.

Another impressive development of the last week is puppet skills.  Ezri knows puppets go on hands and she will request to have her spider puppet put on her hand.  Then she will wave it around.  She also likes to make her baby dolls dance.  This involves wiggling them around on the floor to music.

Now that Ezri’s red birthday balloon has begun to sag after a month and a half bouncing around our ceiling, it’s time to share Ezri’s birthday video. It helps that Eric bought this new computer with a new version of iMovie.

Ezri enjoyed showing off for and playing with her Aunt Amy.

Ezri really enjoys turning the pages and looking at the book Get That Lunch Box by Donna Taylor.  It is a phonics reader I picked up for free somewhere and it features Clifford the Big Red Dog.  I think it is her like of the color red and her advancing abilities turning the pages of non-board books that make this a favorite rather than any literary appeal.  She doesn’t actually want it read to her.  She just wants to turn pages and carry it around with her.

Where’s My Sweetie Pie? by Ed Emberley is a book Ezri enjoys having read to her.  She also seems to want it read from front to back.  She sits for the whole thing and lifts the flaps on each page.  On each page the reader lifts flaps looking for the sweetie pie.  “Behind this log?  It’s a happy frog! But where’s my sweetie pie?”  A log shaped flap covers a happy frog as one would expect.  The final page features a locket in a pocket and inside the locket is a mirror and inside the mirror Ezri can see that she is my sweetie pie.  She tends to kiss herself on in the mirror (or maybe lick, but it’s a friendly gesture).  This book is a nice concept well executed with simple flaps and bright illustrations.

What Am I? a Look & See book from Sterling Publishing.  It’s all about the concentric holes that decrease in size with each page that create the eyes of the animals in this book.  Ezri’s little fingers love feeling the holes and poking through them.  The stylized animals channel a bit of a 70s vibe for me.  Ezri likes to hoo-hoo on the owl page and hiss on the snake page.   It is a guessing book with a riddle on one side of the spread and the animal on the other.  The riddles are pleasantly written and readable.  This one has been read and played with mulitple times.