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It was triple digit hot, but we still went out the parade down Main Street. Needed to see our high school marching band and some classic cars and tractors and firetrucks and veterans and elected officials and girl scouts and the choral society singing from a flatbed truck. Ezri realized quickly this year that some folks were throwing candy. Her bag of parade goodies is being dolled out slowly over time – but she has lollipops and tootsie rolls aplenty.

It was so hot that Ezri and Eric went for snow cones before the parade started.

Here’s Ezri at the side of the parade route soaked in sunscreen with her snowcone.

Here’s Ivan wondering why he isn’t big enough for one of those snow cones yet. And how we expect him to stay cool without one.

Ezri, Ivan and I went out to see (one set of) their  grandparents yesterday, and Ezri got to try on this sombrero at dinner.

In the above photo, Ezri has put on a hoodie that was hanging up on a hook in her room.

Some quotes and conversations with Ezri.

me: What was your favorite part of Spanish class?
Ezri: The game with the circles.
me: How do you play that?
Ezri: You put a mano(Spanish for hand) in a color and then a pie (Spanish for foot) and then twist.
Ahhh. . . I think Ezri just played her first game of Twister. I’ve never played in Spanish. Though I have to wonder how it went since I know Ezri does not know her derecha from her izquierda in any language.

Ezri told me about the hotel room we stayed in.
Ezri: This hotel room is really weird.
It was not. Except that Ezri has not stayed in many hotel rooms, so it was weird for her.
Ezri: It is just like sleeping outside.
Wrong again – even though she explained that the speckled ceiling was like stars and the smoke detector was the moon.

Ezri: I had a bad dream.
Me: What did you dream about?
Ezri: Giant mosquitoes. They were playing ring-around-the-rosie.
I had to agree that giant mosquitoes are definitely nightmarish.

“I am Superman! When I grow up I’ll be Batman when I’m a mom.”

We took our first road trip as a family of four up to Minnesota last weekend.

We discovered that bedtime is tricky in a hotel, but that the kids can do well together in the backseat.

We celebrated the Solstice at Nick and Wendy’s house. Eric and I got to catch up with old friends and Ezri found that those old friends’ kids made good new friends for her.

Ezri loved that Evelyn shared her toys, tricycles, boots, sandbox, bubbles, aquadoodle mat, red wagon, snacks, little sister, raspberries picked straight from her backyard bushes, and was a great partner for sidewalk races.
It was heaps of fun.

Ezri informed me that “Ivan is a robot.”
Given how she feels about robots this can only be a positive development.

Ezri’s first joke,
“What do crows say in the morning?
CAW-fee CAW-fee CAW-fee”
She likes to make you say “CAW” and then she will say “fee” or vice-versa.

me: What was your favorite part of Spanish class today?
ezri: When Mr. Alfonso smelled my pies (pronounced pee-ehs which is Spanish for feet).
I really like her Spanish teacher’s style.

Ezri calls this playground “the cheese park” because of the concrete cheese playstructure.

This year Ezri and I painted T-shirts with “E” for Eric and “e” for ezri and a onesie with “i” for ivan.

Here is Ezri at work on the Father’s Day gifts.

Adoring their dad?

And this one just makes me smile.

Ivan has just learned to eat “baby kibble” which is my word for the assorted crunchy puffs given to babies just learning the next edible step up from mush.

Last week, Ezri, Ivan and I had happy hour on the porch with a bag of Trader Joe’s White Cheddar Corn Puffs.

These photos share the joy of a happy hour on the porch with the Blau kids.

CHEERS and CRUNCH!