Ezra and his Tricks

A one year old wouldn't be a one year old at our house without a variety of "tricks". Over the past year Ezra has been perfecting his animal sounds, car and truck noises, hand movements to songs, and body part  identification.  As always, when the second year approaches, some of the excitement wears off and our little performer moves on to another precious phase of childhood. Before Ezra is too grown up to pound his chest like a gorilla, meow like a kitten or cock-a-doodle-do like a rooster, we decided we better get him in front of the camera! 

Ezra loves to line up and re-line up his cars, imitating truck and car sounds as he goes. Only Ezra knows why the ATV must go at the end of the line, the blue car goes next to the yellow car and the white and black car must go in back of the spider mobile. Any reorganization  on our part is always detected and never accepted!

At around the age of 12 months, Ezra began entertaining us with his dog sounds, then his cow imitations and soon his duck quacks.  His diverse collection of wild life noises became quite impressive, keeping his audiences coming back for more. It wasn't long before Ezra added songs to his repertoire. One day I heard him humming the tune to the "Wheels on the Bus" and making "beep,beep" noises. I wasn't sure where he learned this new skill, but being the enthusiastic mother that I still try to be, I immediately taught him the rest of the song, the actions and then worked on expanding his performance pieces to include "The Itsy Bitsy Spider". Ezra is definitely moving on to another stage of childhood, so we had to capture him on film before his chubby fingers would no longer be spiders and his tongue wagging dog sounds became bad behavior!

* Due to technical difficulties, winter break, sick kids, sacrament talks and more technical difficulties, this blog has been sitting at different stages of completion, waiting to be finished. When I saw the movie clips actually publish after consistant failure I was ecstatic, knowing that now I can move onto other events of the winter!