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Ezri with monkey-monkey for scale at ONE YEAR OLD.
Drat that camera strap is in the photo too.

To see all the monkey-monkey photos of the past year select the category monkey-monkey.  My she has grown and only gets more fun.

This photo is moments before the meltdown when she did not get to play with the camera.

Ezri and I play peek-a-boo around corners and around furniture quite a bit these days. These pix are from a game of table peeking. It’s also gotten harder when she is in certain moods to get her clothes back on her. At least she has those nice green socks to keep her feet warm.

And then she let me know that peek-a-boo was over. . .

Ezri is enjoying an animal excyclopedia for early readers from called The World of Baby Animals by Ton van Eerbeek published by Balloon Books. Each page has a big full color photo of an animal with a small paragraph at an early reader level of facts. Ezri enjoys pointing at the animals in turn. Each page has an animal and the two page spreads are paired. Most of the animal pairings make sense Dog & Cat, Puma & Cheetah, Orangutan & Chimpanzee, but then there’s Squirrel & Elephant and I haven’t figured how those two go together. Though I did learn a baby squirrel is about the size of a pinkie finger at birth.
This book is not a board book and Ezri is getting much better at gently handling the pages of a standard book.  She still isn’t left alone to handle a non-board book, but we do let her turn pages in our laps.

Since Mancato is not smart enough to jump the baby gate sometimes he gets trapped on the same side as the toddler.

The cat kept looking at the door like I should open it, but I was busy with the camera.

She did do some nice. if under-appreciated, petting.

I felt it was my duty to open the door when Ezri decided Mancato was a pillow – a nice furry pillow.

I made this scarf thinking I’d wear it, but Ezri has declared it her snuggly.
She napped with it today and carried it around the house. Her walking is getting so good that she only almost tripped on the trailing scarf a couple of times. Thanks, Kelly, for the yarn to make the scarf. . .err, snuggly.

In other news, Ezri now has top molars.  The bottoms are still coming, but we sense she is working on them and hope they appear soon.

Ezri used to just push the wagon. But, she’s learned how to climb on in and hope a parent gives her a ride.

This week Ezri has been enjoying 2 books with cut-outs in their boardbook pages.
Peek-a-Who? by Nina Laden
and
Zoo Faces: A Book of Masks by Lucy Schultz & Ana Martin Larranaga

Peek a Who? features a cutout with a pair of eyes in it. You turn the page to reveal an owl. Peek a Who! There is a cutout with a train track in it that opens to reveal a train for Peek a choo choo. There’s a ghost for peek a boo and animals for peek a zoo and a final page with a mirrored surface for peek a YOU. Ezri enjoys turning the pages back and forth and peering through the holes.

Zoo Faces has eye cut outs and you can peek out of the hippo page at baby or through the lion page. This is a very fun way to interact with Ezri.  Ezri enjoys feeling the round holes that go all the way through the book so she can put fingers through to the other side.

Our best direct video evidence of Ezri’s amazing new skills.