Golden Pig Tales

When I got to pre-school yesterday, the kids were playing with these little multi-colored plastic toy animals. Ezra had a small family of bunnies and 1 gorilla. The other kids had their own little zoos. I noticed that one kid Ax was putting the animals in his mouth and chewing on them, but that wasn’t a surprise because this kid puts everything in his mouth and chews on it. Ezra and I went home and started to think about dinner. I asked what we should have, and Ezra said that he wanted eggs. So I got out some eggs and started to cracking. As I was whisking the eggs, Ezra looked at me and said “don’t eat animals”. And I said….”hmmm”. I was wondering whether he had gotten some go veg literature from someone somewhere. I asked him who told him not to eat the animals, and he said “Ax no eat animals” Then he went to the fridge and pointed at the cow magnet that he got from Grandma and Grandpa T, and said again “don’t eat animals”…”eat food”. Maybe he was thinking about how Ax was chewing on the animals at pre-school, and maybe the teacher told him not to eat the animals? Because I don’t think Ezra realizes yet that meat and eggs are animals, because he happily sat down to eat the eggs I made for him.

Whaus = Ezra’s Speak for, ,,What is this?” Or ,,What’s this?” Whaus is usually accompanied with a point of finger at an object or to his ear (to represents the object is a sound).

It was learned over time by Ezra saying, ,,What’s this?” with a binky in his mouth.

Every time whaus is said, I say, ,,What is this?” Or at least I try. Ezra can say Whaus for many object before I can say, ”What is this?” making me feel it is more important to clearly define all the object he is curious about than use time to help unlearn a non-standard word.

We got new garage doors finished today, so now we can actually put stuff in the garage. I told Ezra that we were getting new garage doors so we could put stuff in the garage. Stuff like our bikes.

We went on a ride this evening and went to the park. We played on all the equipment and ran around in the grass, and then we continued to ride a little more. As we approached the garage, Ezra asked “bikes garage?” and I said “Yes!” So we opened up the doors and put the bikes inside, with Ezra’s helpful assistance. Then we closed the doors and said bye bye to the bikes and the garage. Hopefully when we go back to the garage tomorrow to get the bikes to go on another ride, they will not be covered in cobwebs or gnawed on by rats, as I really don’t know what might happen in that garage.

Ezra is talking when that binky is not sucked to his face. His talk is single words and gesticulation but it is talking, and the talking is making being a parent so much easier for he can tell us he wants applesauce and that there is a choo-choo passing past if we couldn’t hear the horn in the distance.

He is able to understand more than he can speak which makes parenting a whole lot easier because he can at least say yes or no if he wants a type of food or if he wants to perform some task like go outside or read a book or not eat something he doesn’t want. Of course, he is still trying to understand some words we speak as we are still trying to understand some of the words he speaks.

One of the words he continues to say is mow-tow-tow which is Ezra for Motorcycle, which is a new favorite motorized vehicle. And no matter how many times I say motorcycle after he says mow-tow-tow he still says mow-tow-tow, but that is okay because he is still young and learning and still at times has a binky sucked to his face making words difficult to practice.

Ezra is learning the word ball and has been letting me know it by holding up mini-basketballs, mini-footballs (both round and egged-shaped), big rubber balls, metal chime balls and peas and saying, ,,Ball.” The peas he then dropped on to the floor like the other balls.

Ezra is busy making new sounds this week! He’s starting to be able to make the basic sounds of d, g, and m. Today he was saying things like “guh-guh-duh-muh?” and guh-guh guh-guh guh-guh, duh duh duh duh ssssttttttssss!!!!! (that last one is sort of a spitting hissing sound that he’s also learned recently).   It seems likely that he’ll soon be able to say muh-muh or duh-duh, and maybe Kalab and I will think he’s talking about us, even though he will more likely just be practicing these new sounds like he does every day.

And Kalab wanted me to write about Ezra’s poo roll-ups. Every once in a while, Ezra’s poop is sort of dry and flattened to his diaper, and it reminds me of fruit roll-ups, except, well, made of poo.  When it’s in the fuzzibunz, and I go to knock some of the poo into the toilet, this sort of poo even peels off the diaper much like the fruit roll-up would peel off the cellophane wrapper. Ezra had a poo roll-up today, but this time it stuck to his bun instead of the diaper, so I had to use a wipe to unpeel it. ewwwww.

Ezra and I are having a New Year’s Eve Party.

The party begins at 6 P.M. with The Dinner. After The Dinner is The Dance Party. The Dance Party will only last until Sleep Time or Write Time. Ezra will be sleeping. I will be writing.

After Sleep Time or Write Time will be Happy New Year. Ezra may not be awake for Happy New Year for he may be sleeping. We have a bet that he will sleep through Happy New Year. He seems to think he will be awake for Happy New Year. If Ezra loses the bet then he has to go sleep in his own room the day after the curtains are hung in his room. If I lose, and Ezra is awake, I may not need to do anything because Ezra hasn’t told me what I need to do if I lose the bet.

This morning Ezra was making more talkie sounds. Talkie sounds are the sounds he now creates that sound similar to phonetics. They are almost words, at least in my mind, and these talkie sounds have been occurring with greater frequency.

The other day I sitting on the couch and talking with (really to) Ezra. He was finding his flow as EZ-O making beeps and whistles as replies, but instead of creating a new song for me to record and exploit he began to make sounds like he was saying, „Hi.” I even have it recorded.

This morning I heard more talkie sounds than beatbox sounds. The conversation didn’t last long for I had to go to work, and Ezra still appeared to be waking and probably not feeling the flow to express.