Dear Great-Grandma,
I just woke up from a nap and I think I have time to write to you before Mommy and I go run some errands. First we will go to the post office and mail this letter to you, and then we will go to the bank, and then we will go to the bike shop and pick up a bicycle trailer! The trailer is Mommy’s birthday present and I get to ride in it. It goes behind a bicycle and little people like me can sit in it. That means Mommy and I can go very far without taking the car and wasting gasoline. I am excited to ride in it. I even get to wear my own helmet!
Well, I promised to tell you about my Mississippi grandparents’ visit last week, so I will do that first. They came Thursday night after I went to bed, and they were here all day Friday, and they left on Saturday morning. They will be back again this week on Thursday evening. But first I will tell you what we did together when they were here.
In the morning we just played! I showed them everything I can do and told them all my words. I played and played and then I ate lunch and took a nap. In the afternoon we did something special. We went to a park and I rode in the stroller and everybody else walked around this long, long trail together. Then we stopped at a place where there were animals I could ride. They were little metal animals and they jumped up and down, up and down, up and down. Mommy or Daddy could sit on the animal on the other side–Mommy said it was kind of a see-saw–and then when I went up, they went down, and when I went down, they went up! Does that sound confusing? I guess it kind of was! It confused me but I also enjoyed bouncing up and down.
Then we went a little farther down the trail and came to a big wooden castle. It had stairs and towers and slides and swings and balance beams and lots of other fun things that I didn’t understand. I think when I am a little older I will really enjoy that place but for now I mostly enjoyed the swings and slides. I love to swing! I could do that for hours and hours. Sliding is a little scary but I like to try it, at least once or twice. After the park we came home and ate supper and then pretty soon I went to bed. It was a long day, but I am looking forward to seeing them again next week.
I did a few other fun things this week, too. I went to a party for a lady who is going to have a baby. She has a big belly! There were lots of kids there and lots of toys and I had fun swinging and sliding again and playing with the different toys. One little girl was catching me when I went down the slide.
And yesterday, I went to my friend Eleanor’s house and she had two other friends there. We played lots of games together and sang some songs. We sang “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” and “Ring Around the Rosy.” I danced in a circle with the other children and then we all fell down. It was fun!
Something that I learned this week was how to climb onto Mommy and Daddy’s bed. There is a suitcase under the bed and I can pull it out and climb onto it and then I can get on the bed. This is a very useful skill because now I can get anything they put on the bed, and I can also climb up and make faces into the mirror above the bed. I can make a fishy face! I make a fishy face and then Mommy or Daddy makes a fishy face and we kiss that way. It is very funny. Sometimes I am smiling so hard I can hardly make the face!
Well, Mommy says she must change my diaper and then we must go so we have enough time to run our errands. I love you!
Love,
Isaac