Dear Great-Grandma,
Well, my time in North Dakota is almost over. I can hardly believe it! Daddy and I will start driving home on Sunday, and Mommy will be taking the train home next weekend. I have seen lots of trains out here so I know what they are. They make LOUD sounds with their horns!
I think it will be nice to be home again, but I have gotten used to things out here so it will be an adjustment again. It seems like I am always making adjustments.
I want to tell you about some of the fun things I have been doing here this summer. Not the things I do every day, but the things that were especially fun and special.
One thing we did was we went to the Grand Forks fair. We went there early in the morning and not many people were there, but there were lots of animals. I saw horses, cows, pigs, goats, bunnies, ducks, geese, chickens, llamas, and ponies, all close up. I hear that you get to have animals in your room sometimes. That must be fun! I like to watch animals. Once I was outside and saw some puppies taking a walk down the street and I wanted to see them, but they were walking away from me, so I ran and ran and ran and ran and tried to catch them, but they were just too fast for me, even though I am a very fast runner now. Oh, and I can jump now, too! I can get both feet off the ground at once. Before, I could only get one up at a time, which was fun but not as impressive as both feet.
Another thing we did this summer was go to Moorhead. That is a town an hour south of Grand Forks where Mommy lived for a few years. She still has some friends there so we went to visit them. Actually, we went twice. Once we had a picnic outside and I played with toys and children older than me and explored the house. Another time we went to an apartment and I ate lunch and took a nap and when I woke up we went outside to a place where there were lots of people. Mommy said it was called a street fair. There were tents and people juggling and food and old cars that Daddy liked looking at. Daddy also bought a wooden plane that he likes to make fly. I want to make it fly too but he won’t let me, which makes me mad.
Another thing that happened this summer is that I went swimming in a big pool for the first time. That was pretty scary. Have you been swimming in a big pool, Great-Grandma? I didn’t like how big and cold it was, but I liked watching the people. I think maybe I could get used to it and have fun eventually but not just yet. I like the little pool in the courtyard here much better. I can stand and splash and get out by myself if I want to.
Another thing that happend is that Uncle Darren came to visit. That was actually the same time we visited some of the people in Moorhead, so he came to visit them too, and when we were riding in the car he showed me pictures on his cell phone. I liked having Uncle Darren here. We played games together and I called him “Agoo” (Uncle). That was a while ago, though.
But I think maybe the most fun thing that I did this summer was the balloon room. Let me tell you about the balloon room. Mommy says it happened like this: There was a girl who went away for a week, and while she was gone some of her friends decided it would make her very happy if they filled her room up with balloons. So they bought lots and lots of balloons and gave a few to everybody to blow up and put in her room. There are a lot of people here, so when everybody blew up a few balloons, that meant that the room got very, very full of balloons. So when the girl got back she was very happy that her room was full of balloons but she couldn’t sleep in there because her bed was covered with balloons, so she had some people help her to move a lot of the balloons into the next room, where nobody lived. So then that was the balloon room. It had lots of balloons in it, and Mommy took me up there to play. I can’t really describe very well how much fun it was, but if you ask Aunt Lucy she will show you pictures of me up there and maybe a movie too. I didn’t want to ever, ever leave! But Mommy let me take a few balloons down to my room and now I say goodnight to them every night and when I wake up I ask for my “boon” and we go find them and say good morning. I really like my balloons!
Well, Mommy has to go to class now, and since she is the one helping me with my letter I will have to say goodbye. You are right, Mommy helps me with my letters and Aunt Lucy helps with yours, so we are kind of alike! I like being like you because I think you are a very nice lady and if I am nice like you, that will be a good thing.
I love you! I hope I will see you sometime soon again.
Love,
Isaac