Just another CarleSpawn weblog

With friends in descending order from age 4 down to age 1
These pals of ours are headed to live in New Zealand to which Ezri asks perplexed, “What about playdates?”
Have you heard of skype?
Skype play dates it is.

We had an excellent Thanksgiving dinner at Grandma Liz and Grandpa Harvey’s house.
With Grandma Tam and Grandpa Mark there too, all four grandparents were present, along with Aunt Amy and Uncle Tim. Biggest Blau family Thanksgiving ever.

Amy gifted us all with Michigan T-shirts, auf Deutsch, for what should be obvious reasons.

This came towards me chanting the Imperial March from Star Wars. She’s a stormtrooper.

This is a conversation we had in the car passing a pool hall in the same franchise that wouldn’t let Ezri in because she wasn’t 21 when she was being carried in a baby bassinet at a few months old. It was the first, and so far only time, Ezri has been carded.
Eric: It’s a pool hall, so you can go there to play pool. Well, you can’t because they serve alcoholic drinks.
Ezri: Alcoholic drinks?
Eric: Drinks for adults only. You have to be 21 to drink them.
Ezri: Oh, well, maybe when I’m a teenager.

Ezri has decided our family is a family of jokers. Or maybe it’s “Jokers” since she means specifically the villain from Batman. She is named Jokelina – part Joker and part Angelina the Ballerina. Eric is Joker. Amanda is Jokara. Ivan is our little baby Joke-ha. I referred to our house as “Blau House” in conversation and she told me that now it is Joker House.

Amanda: Brrrr. The car is cold this morning.
Ezri: Maybe you can knit the car a sweater. Yes, knit the car a sweater!

“What is the fancy word for boogers?”
We had just been talking about other “fancy” words for bodily fluids – saliva (fancy for spit), mucus (fancy for snot) and urine (fancy for pee). Guess I still need to teach her feces. If anyone knows a fancy word for boogers let me know. We’ve decided on “dried mucus” for now.

“Trick or CHEESE!” This is Ezri’s new way of asking for cheese after Halloween.

Recently a friend was talking about her daughter’s drawings inspired by Ed Emberley’s drawing books.
So, we busted out an Emberley drawing book on making drawings with fingerprints and some washable markers.

We had a lot of fun. These are turtles climbing a mountain and assorted other doodles from The Complete Funprint Drawing Book.

In my basement book collection I still have the 1979 Big Green Drawing Book my mother got signed for me at an ALA conference. We’ll have to pull it out for more ideas.

Ezri helped reorganize the linen closet.
“I found a bunk bed. Ivan can sleep underneath my little shelf.”

Ezri likes to make up stories and ask “what if”:
“What if someone was driving away in our black car? And what if he was dressed like Darth Vader? And what if I was wearing my C3PO suit? What if Eric was Luke Skywalker and had a light saber? Then what would happen?”

Coming to my bed to wake me up in the morning, Ezri, with her hand on her neck, says, “I am checking to see if my heart is beating. I check every morning. Just to make sure.”

“Glib” means “no” in friendly alien language. I don’t know how friendly aliens say “yes.” Tells you a lot about the afternoon, doesn’t it? Ezri babbled in a made up language she called “alien” – but the language of friendly aliens not bad aliens. Sometimes she would translate for me and sometimes she wouldn’t.

In her c3po outfit Ezri would walk up to everyone she met and say, “Human cyborg relations.” Very few people could figure out what she was saying. Her preschool teacher asked me about it at her parent-teacher conference. Usually, she understands Ezri very well, but she couldn’t figure out what she was saying in her Halloween costume. She admitted a lack of Star Wars knowledge.

me: What do you think Grandpa Mark would like for his birthday?
Ezri: A My Little Pony! Cheerilee maybe?

After the re-election of president Obama while listening to NPR:
“Meghan helped OUR president again.”
I am not sure why the special emphasis on OUR but she repeated it several times. She is sure that Obama is all Americans’ president and that he belongs to her.
Meghan is a friend who volunteered for Obama’s campaigns.

So, I made her this hat.

Ezri participated in a wagon train of trick-or-treaters.

Our party included a good witch, a lion, a fire fighter, a ladybug , a sailboat and the two Blau droids. We left a sleeping baby pumpkin inside.

and visit with a BIG PINK BEAR TOO!

Ezri wandered about at the beginning of the storytime before the show telling people “Human cyborg relations.” Occasionally she would point at Ivan and say, “That’s my counterpart.” Grandma Liz made her gold suit and we printed her mask from the internet. Her R2 counterpart’s outfit is courtesy of an etsy shop called “The Wishing Elephant.”

We met some friends who were Powerpuff girls (aka Blossom and Bubbles) for a bit of a dance party and some early trick-or-treating.

First I set up the tent and Ezri took Ivan on a tour showing him the door and the window and telling him to call it an igloo.

Ezri then began adding “materials” she needed to the tent.

And she just kept adding materials. “Mama, we need lots of materials.”

“Ezri, can you even fit in the tent with all that in there?”
“YES!”