Dear Great-Grandma,
I would like to tell you today about some of the things I enjoy doing. It is so wonderful to be able to walk around and do things–much better than when Mommy had to carry me everywhere.
My very favorite thing to do is go outside. I love to be outside and look at everything. There is a big yellow box right outside our back door and when I go outside I go to that yellow box and get an empty milk jug out and I carry it around with me. I’m not sure why, it just seems like the thing to do. Anyway, so I get my milk jug and then I walk around on the patio for a while and look at stuff. We have a beautiful pink tree right now. Mommy says it is a weeping cherry tree and she loves it too. There are also some pretty flowers growing next to the patio and sometimes I pull their petals off but sometimes I just look.
Then when I am done on the patio I go somewhere else. Mommy has to help me climb down off of it but then I take off by myself. I can go look at the bunny in the back yard and feed him dandelions. Mommy picks a dandelion leaf and gives it to me and I stick the end in his cage and he nibbles it up. I squeal when I see the bunny because he is exciting and soft and furry, and I like feeding him.
I can also go around to the front of the house where there are more flowers. There is also another yellow bin and sometimes I trade my milk jug for something else like a juice container or something. Mommy isn’t really thrilled about that but I like looking at the different things and carrying them around, so she mostly lets me. I also like to pull on the little purple flowers. Mommy says they are grape hyacinths. The flowers are made of little tiny balls and I pull them off and rub them in my fingers. There are fuzzy yellow flowers all over the yard too and sometimes I pull them, but they are harder to get off. And they make my fingers yellow.
There are bugs outside that crawl around. I like to follow them and try to catch them. Sometimes I also help Mommy pick up pine-cones and put them in a bag. One time there was a cat that came and played with us for a little while. She was all white and had a bell around her neck and I liked her.
One thing that Mommy won’t let me do is go into the road. I would really like to because there are interesting things on the other side of the road, but she says no. I don’t always listen to her and then she makes me go somewhere else and I get mad and sometimes I have to come back inside and that makes me very upset. I don’t understand why I can’t go in the road. But sometimes she carries me across and I can go exploring over on the other side too, and that is nice.
So that is what I do outside, and it is a lot of fun. I would rather do that than most anything else. But when I have to be inside there are good things to do, too. For instance, I can ride my rocking horse. That is always a good thing to do. Sometimes Mommy sings me songs while I ride, and sometimes I just ride by myself. I can do funny things with my horse, like make him bob up and down instead of going back and forth. Once in a while I stand up while I ride but Mommy doesn’t like that and she makes me sit down, which is okay because it is kind of scary anyway.
But I can’t ride my horse all the time because I get tired, so there are other things I like to do, too. I really like to stack things. I think I showed you the cups I like to stack. I am getting pretty good at them and I can sometimes get them all stacked up in the right order all by myself! I also have some blocks that I like to stack, and those are easier because they don’t have to go in any particular order. Grandma and Grandpa gave me those blocks for Christmas.
I also have a puzzle with shapes and I like to take the pieces out and put them back in. I can mostly figure out where they go but it is a bit tricky. Sometimes I get close but Mommy has to help me get them in. And other times I get totally mixed up and frustrated and that is not so fun. But other times I can put them in all by myself.
I also like to read books. I do like having Mommy or Daddy read to me but sometimes I like to do it myself. I climb up into my rocking chair and pull a book off my bookshelf and I sit and read it. I think my favorite book right now is “Down By The Bay.”
I like to cuddle with my toys, too. Grandma bought me a lamby for Easter that sleeps in my crib with me. I think I showed you that, too. It is big like a blanket and very soft. I look forward to getting in my crib because then I can cuddle with lamby and bury my face in her wool.
Mommy has a puppy that she keeps in her room and I like him, too. I say “Rrff!” and get the puppy off the shelf and then I lay on the floor and snuggle with him. He is a very nice puppy and never scratches me at all.
I also have a bear, and another puppy, and a lion, and an elephant, and a couple more lambies, and it is good to have so many friends.
Speaking of friends, my friend Joseph is not coming to see me any more and I kind of miss him. He will be here once this week, on Tuesday, and I will enjoy playing with him again. I did get to play with some friends this weekend. I went to my friend Ethan’s house yesterday evening and played with him and all his toys. It is always fun to go to a new place and explore all the things to do there. It does get kind of boring at my house after a while when I have already played with all my toys and ridden my rocking horse and I can’t go outside anymore. That is when Mommy starts looking a little funny–sort of tired or something, I’m not sure what.
Oh, there is one more thing that I should tell you about–I like looking out the window and watching things happen. There is a field across from my house and it is called a “baseball field” but I can’t say all that, so I just say “bay-ball.” Mommy knows what I mean! I like to watch them play baseball. They are often out there these days. Mommy says our team isn’t too good, but I don’t mind–they are still interesting to watch. And when the cars go by I say “brrm-brrm” to let Mommy know what is happening.
Well, as you can tell I am busy these days. Those are only some of the things I like to do. And when something unusual happens that is better than anything. Once in a while Mommy will leave a cupboard open that isn’t usually open and that is a good adventure. I can carry a lot of potatoes around! Or she will leave her shoes somewhere and I will put them on. I think they took a picture of me wearing her shoes once, so maybe I will include that for you. Anyway, I have a lot of things I want to do today, so I will just end this by saying that I hope you are feeling better because I heard you were in that place for sick people again and now you are somewhere a little nicer but you would still like to be back with Grandpa Al. So I hope you can get back there pretty soon.
Love,
Isaac