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Ezri loves the swings, but other playground equipment at the local park has also become interesting to her.

Another Wednesday means it is time to talk about what Ezri is reading.

Ezri likes books with human faces both those with photographs and those with drawings that are relatively realistic.

Eric read her Look at You! A Baby Body Book by Kathy Henderson.  She enjoyed pointing at and smiling at the faces in the book.
This leap of recognizing not only photos as people, but also drawings as people is exciting.
This book has a number of faces that are looking out at the reader and not in profile. These faces looking out at Ezri got the biggest response.
The book shows babies going through their day – playing, eating, bathing, crawling, dressing, getting their diapers changed and sleeping. It will be a good book for Ezri to recognize the activities that are part of her day as she gets a bit older.

I know you’ve been wondering about what books Ezri likes.
So, I’m going to try every Wednesday to highlight something from her library or the public library that she enjoys.

This week it’s Flip-a-face Big Little by SAMi
Animal faces flip to show BIG EYES on an owl and little eyes on a chicken. (BIG NOSE on an elephant and little nose on a skunk – you get the idea)
Ezri is a big fan of toy books with punch outs, crinkly pages, textured pages and even teething corners built in.
This book held her interest with the changing animal faces which we flipped back and forth over and over.
I liked that it taught the parts of a face. SAMi (yes that’s what the author/artist calls him/herself) has a series of “flip-a-something” books and we’ll be checking out more.  They are published by Blue Apple Books which has a catalog with a lot of high quality baby books and toddler books.

This is the page showing the chicken and the fact that every face has two eyes.
Also, Ezri’s gorilla doll based on the book Goodnight, Gorilla by Peggy Rathman is next to her.

It’s getting harder to get a photo of Ezri with monkey-monkey.  These were taken on the 11th, but I am just getting to posting.

She moves a lot more now than a few months ago.

She also moves the monkey. So, there’s a lot of motion during photo time.

I’d love it if she stretched out and showed just how tall she is with monkey-monkey for scale, but here we can see both monkey and Ezri.

These photos were taken in Connecticut where Ezri was honored to attend the wedding of Nathan Hemingson and Julie Smith.

Ezri met her first pumpkins.  She thought banging her hands on the big, round orange pumpkins was grand.

Since it was just the two of us, I tried to take our photo together with the old reach out the arm method.

The Toddler Garden in the Children’s Garden has become very fun.  When we visited last spring Ezri just napped, but now she is into looking and playing with everything.  The garden has a xylophone and mirrors and this giant acorn you can sit inside.

Rolling around in the acorn tunnel was a hit.

The giant mirrored ball was fascinating and offered another opportunity for a photo of us together.

My first day of unemployment was really lovely and I enjoyed the sun even more knowing the winter is coming.

Here she is discovering a fall leaf.

Ezri loves the swings at the park.  Meghan was the first to put her into the swing on her own.  You can see in this photo how happy it makes her.

I need to download the rest of Meghan’s fall afternoon Ezri photos, but more may appear on the blog.

Ezri is wearing a diaper and a sock. She is definitely not naked.