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At the park today, Ezri really wanted to try to climb the climbing net on the jungle gym.
She is often told that certain equipment on the playground is just for “big kids” and then steered towards safer equipment – shorter slides, toddler swings, ramps without 5 foot drops on one side.

But, today she wanted to climb so badly that I thought we’d give it go with me spotting her carefully.
She started climbing and as she rose I heard her softly chanting, “big kid, big kid, big kid, big kid” all the way up and then with a great effort she scrabbled up onto the platform at the top.
At this moment, I had to hustle up quickly to make sure she didn’t go for any of the drop offs from the platform. I hadn’t expected her to make it all the way up.
I am very proud of my big kid.
She was pretty proud of herself too.

She climbed the net again for this photo, though she did not repeat the feat of getting onto the top platform.

Later she took a tumble walking down the stairs she’s been able to navigate safely for months and I thought she may be a big kid, but she still needs watching at the park.

She’s a climber.

Ezri really liked wearing goggles and playing with friends at the DuPage Children’s Museum about a week ago.

Ezri is 34 1/4 inches tall, 26 and a half lbs, and her head is 48 cm around.

After much stress about the shots she would get at her wellness checkup yesterday, it turned out there were no vaccinations scheduled. Whew! Here I was fearing tears, screaming and perhaps a repeat of the kicking the nurse in the face incident from last time. Instead, we have a 6 month reprieve until her 2 year old appointment.

There may be no red tomatoes this year, but it’s worth it to watch Ezri enjoy snagging the yellow and orange ones while she helps water the plants.

She also enjoying being the one behind the stroller these days.

A couple days ago, Ezri pointed at her iPod (grandma Liz’s old iPod) and said “iPod.” It was the first time we heard that word and she said it perfectly. Yesterday, as we headed towards the store she said, “Trade-o-Juice.” That’s right, Ezri, we are going to Trader Joe’s. Every day there are more and more words.

This morning Ezri pointed at the floor and said, “Vomit.” Sure enough, a cat had left a small present. Then Ezri said, “clean up.” So, we did that. This makes me think she has seen more cat vomit clean-up in 18 months than I think she has.

She is growing up so fast. Any day now, she will be asking me to let her drive. Don’t worry I won’t let her yet.

Ezri loves the new barn toy. Here she is pretending to nap on it.

She also likes carrying it around by its handle.

This watering can was big enough that Ezri needed some help operating it. She made Eric fill it with water “ah-GEN!” more times than I bothered to count and watered flowers, weeds, and lawn without discriminating. Lori was very nice about pointing out all the plants that might like water and helping Ezri tip the watering can.

I think a toddler sized watering can is on my must purchase list.

Bathtime has gotten to be very fun.
Ezri helps with the washing.

She lets me give her silly hairdos.

Ezri’s vocabulary is growing each day.
Here are a few words heard during bathtime today:
bubble, duck, book, towel, hair, shower, wet, chin, toes

There may not be any red tomatos since Ezri has decided she likes to pick and eat the yellow ones.

In our backyard. . .

Here she comes.