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Ezri is listening to her grandpa play for her.
In addition to listening to music, Ezri likes to create some noise herself.
She has rhythm and loves to pound on things and beat things together – especially loud things like pans and spoons.

Ezri found one of the 24 gnomes hidden in the Children’s Garden at the Arboretum.

It is the Willow Tree gnome. Each gnome highlights a tree or animal living at the arboretum.

Oh, gnome! Ezri, gnomes are not for chewing. We decided it was best to admire gnomes from a little further away after this gnome incident.

She found the book her grandpa wrote. Is she going to read it?

No, she’s going to try to chew the corner, but I took it away.
I gave her a chewy teether instead.

I have read aloud to her sections of Adventures in Yellowstone: Early Travelers Tell Their Tales. She enjoys listening to me read, especially the parts where there are bears or Indians.

Our favorite book lately for me to read aloud to her is
Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young selected by Jack Prelutsky and illustrated by Marc Brown (of Arthur book fame).
It’s filled with rhymes by the likes of Lewis Carroll and Dr. Seuss, but most of our favorites are by Anonymous (she comes up with the cleverest rhymes). Today we read a page featuring chicken and duck rhymes.
“Quack, quack!
We have two ducks. One blue. One black.
And when our blue duck goes ‘Quack-quack’
our black duck quickly quack-quacks back.
The quacks Blue quacks make her quite a quacker
but Black is a quicker quacker-backer.”
That one is from Dr. Seuss.
I’ve been reading to her from this book for a long time and with 4 -8 rhymes a page and around 100 pages we can keep reading for a long time to come.
We’ve read everything up to page 43 with some rereads on favorite pages like the ones about the weather.

Now that Ezri can crawl she is all about crawling over to places to try to pull up to standing. She has not yet developed the skills to correctly predict whether something can bear her weight or whether it is stable. Yikes!

The Junior Room librarians let Ezri crash their Wizard of Oz trio as one of the witch’s monkeys. Thanks, Junior Room.

We started our Halloween at the Downers Grove Library for Miss Sharon’s Halloween storytime and stopped for a snack with friends.

At home , Ezri took my apple and actually bit off pieces and chewed and swallowed some of them. Other pieces of apple ended up on her clothes and the futon. I am still impressed.

This is Ezri in her Rose Weasley costume as the littlest Gryffindor.
I am sure Ron and Hermione dressed their daughter just like this for alumni weekend at Hogwarts.

Ezri has started to crawl. Just a few forward moves at a time, but she will work herself towards a goal. She crawled over to this open book to look through the pages of Alien Opposites.

Her favorite book of the week is Funny Face by Nicola Smee.
It has a plot which occurs on the left hand pages and on the right side a big face of the boy character’s reaction to the plot. A bear comes and steals the boy’s ball. He makes an ANGRY FACE in response. When the bear returns with more bears. He makes a WORRIED FACE. In the end the bears play ball with the boy – HAPPY FACE. The final page is a mirror for you to practice your own faces. Ezri loves the mirror. She puts her face very close – sometimes close enough to lick the mirror.

Ezri is watching the leaves fall in her monkey suit.

Her grandma and great-nana decided she needed a monkey suit and I think she likes it.

Is she Halloween ready or what?

Ezri likes to put hay in her mouth. Amanda does not like removing it. We didn’t hangout here by the hay bales for too long.

The acorn tunnel in the toddler garden is a good spot for Ezri to roll around.