Dear Great-Grandma,
Hello! I hope you are doing well this week. I have been enjoying the nice weather. Mommy keeps taking me on walks outside, and sometimes I sit in my chair while she hangs laundry on the line or digs in the garden. Did I tell you Grandma came to visit me this week? Let me see, that was on Tuesday. Maybe Mommy told you already. She and Grandma dug in the flower beds and did some other things together. I think Mommy was tired that day because I kept waking up in the night. But I couldn’t help it!
Mommy and Daddy are planting a garden. They have told me all about it. They are going to plant onions (I don’t think I like the sound of that) and lettuce and lima beans (that doesn’t sound too good either) and zucchini and tomatoes and some herbs. I think that’s all. It won’t be too big because they don’t have a lot of practice yet. So they are going to start small and see how it goes.
I have been practicing doing something new lately. I like sitting up to see the world, so Mommy or Daddy will hold onto my arms while I try to sit. I am not very good at it yet so they do most of the balancing for me but I am slowly getting better, and I do enjoy it. I am sending you a picture of me practicing with Daddy.
I also am getting to play with toys some more. You know what, Great-Grandma? I have hands! They are really neat! I have been looking at them a lot lately, trying to figure out what all they can do. It is still really hard to make them do what I want, though. A lot of times it is easiest if I catch one hand with the other one and then bring them both up to my mouth. That way they both stay put a little better. It is so frustrating when they just go flying around and don’t do what I want! But I am learning to make them cooperate, and it is really exciting when it works.
I have also realized that Mommy and Daddy are funny! They do such funny things and they are starting to make me laugh. I used to just smile at them because I loved them but now I am laughing too. They make me so happy. I do have such very nice parents, although they don’t always do exactly what I want, any more than my hands do. How long will it be till I can make my parents do exactly what I want them to?
Something else I have discovered lately is this shiny bright thing that Mommy calls a “mirror.” You know what? There is another Mommy in that thing, and also somebody else who looks like they are about my size. They both smile at me, so I smile back at them, but I am kind of confused about who they are and why there is somebody who looks just like Mommy but isn’t. I know she can’t be because while I am looking at the Mommy in the mirror my real Mommy, who is holding me, talks to me and points at the Mommy in the mirror, who points back. Are you confused yet? I am! What is this mirror thing? I don’t get it.
Anyway, I am learning a lot and growing a lot. I think it is a good thing to be alive and to have people who love me and talk to me and take care of me. Someday I might have to take care of them, and I hope I can do as good a job as they are doing for me.
Love,
Isaac