Quote - I also want to add blinking eyes and maybe a smile and a moving ear (folding donkey or rabbit )

Some simples shape keys would be nice.  Blender gives them a slide bar when they're created too so you can control each key by a percentage by sliding the bar to different points at different key frames.

I did one tut on shape keys.. There's more out there. 
Shape Keys
Blender Noob to Pro

Good luck.

Reddog9
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