{"id":2707,"date":"2011-08-23T06:31:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T11:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2011-08-23T06:41:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T11:41:20","slug":"ezri-speaks-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/?p=2707","title":{"rendered":"Ezri Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.ezriblau.com\/2011\/08\/behind-futon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.ezriblau.com\/2011\/08\/behind-futon-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"behind futon\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2748\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/2011\/08\/behind-futon-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/2011\/08\/behind-futon-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFuton peek-a-boo is fun.<\/p>\n<p>A collection of conversations with Ezri:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I bringed woof-woof and pink blanket because thunder.&#8221;  These are her comfort items and she brought them out of her bedroom when the storm started.<br \/>\nI love that we are getting a lot of past tense verbs these days and it&#8217;s particularly noticeable when the verbs are irregular so Ezri gets them wrong.<br \/>\nSo, she tells stories that go like this one about a family concert in the park:<br \/>\n&#8220;We goed to the park and did a picnic.  And then Jason comed and I seed Jason.  Then the music and he danced like this.&#8221;  Here she wiggles her shoulders up and down in a fun imitation of Jason&#8217;s dancing skills.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Try some man soup, mama.&#8221;  Ezri with a bowl with a plastic lego guy in it and a spoon just for me.<\/p>\n<p>Knock-knock jokes with Ezri<br \/>\nEzri: Mama, you say &#8220;knock-knock&#8221;<br \/>\nMe: Knock, Knock<br \/>\nEzri: Who&#8217;s there?<br \/>\nMe: Cargo<br \/>\nEzri: What&#8217;s Cargo?<br \/>\nMe: Cargo beep beep<br \/>\nbrief pause<br \/>\nEzri: Knock Knock! Who&#8217;s there?<br \/>\nMe: Anita<br \/>\nEzri: What&#8217;s Anita?<br \/>\nMe: Anita hug!<br \/>\nI opened my arms and scored the hug.<br \/>\nEzri: Knock knock Who&#8217;s there, mama?<br \/>\nMe: Boo<br \/>\nEzri: What&#8217;s Boo?<br \/>\nMe: Don&#8217;t cry it&#8217;s only a joke that would&#8217;ve made more sense if you&#8217;d said, &#8220;boo who?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After explaining that I was having a patty melt for dinner:<br \/>\n&#8220;I want a patty melt.  I want a patty melt.  I want MY OWN patty melt. . . What&#8217;s a patty melt?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ezri awakens us in the middle of the night crying.<br \/>\nMe: What&#8217;s wrong?<br \/>\nEzri: I need a sticker. *sob* *sob*<br \/>\nI went and got a sticker and she wore it on her pajamas calming immediately.  She snuggled with Eric and went back to sleep.  I wonder what nightmare is remedied with the application of one sticker to the pajamas, but am grateful it was just that easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Futon peek-a-boo is fun. A collection of conversations with Ezri: &#8220;I bringed woof-woof and pink blanket because thunder.&#8221; These are her comfort items and she brought them out of her bedroom when the storm started. I love that we are getting a lot of past tense verbs these days and it&#8217;s particularly noticeable when the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ezri-speaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2707"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2750,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions\/2750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ezriblau.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}