Dear Great-Grandma,
How are you? I am doing well. I have had a good week. I don’t think anything really out of the ordinary happened, it was just an ordinary week. But it was still a good one.
I am learning more words and phrases! Some of the ones I especially like are “How about…” (and then I suggest something, like “grape” or “cracker”), and also “Oh dear!” and “Thank you.” I can name a lot of different kinds of balls, like ping-pong ball, tennis ball, baseball, soccer ball, and just plain big ball. I also like frisbees. Have you ever played with a frisbee? Frisbees are neat because all you have to do is sort of fling them and they go a lot further than a ball.
Anyway, maybe I should try to list all the things I did this week, besides reading books and playing with my toys. Mommy and I try to go somewhere every day together. It keeps us both happy. We go to the grocery store, and the post office, and the playground (I love to swing and I can go down the slide all by myself with no help from Mommy!). We also go shopping sometimes for things we need. There is one shop near our house where we go once in a while where Mommy has to hold me so I don’t break anything by accident. I don’t mind too much, especially if she tells me what everything is when I ask her.
What else did I do? I rode in Daddy’s big truck on Saturday! That was a lot of fun. Daddy and I bought a freezer for Mommy so she can make lots of food and freeze it. She made some spaghetti sauce earlier this week and next Saturday she and Oma are going to freeze corn. I think sweet corn is pretty good!
I also went to youth group at church on Sunday. I bet you didn’t know I was old enough for youth group! It was kids in middle school, 6-8th grade. They are all really nice to me and they play with me so I like it there. Mommy and Daddy are “Sponsors” and I come along for the ride.
I went to storytime at the library again and I was not at all shy this time. In fact Mommy says this time I wasn’t so very well behaved. I didn’t want to sit on her lap and I went and stood in front of the lady reading the stories and I wanted to flip all the flaps in the lift-the-flap book and then I didn’t want to sing the songs because I was too busy reading the book the lady had just finished reading. But at least I didn’t take any toys from other babies, right?
Today we went to visit the pastor who is in charge of the youth group and he and Mommy did some planning for the year. I sat in my stroller and tried very hard to distract them both and I mostly succeeded.
Tomorrow Mommy and I are going to somebody’s farm to sell corn. It is the people who own the bakery she worked at who also own the farm and the corn. They are busy people which is why they don’t have time to sell it themselves, so Mommy and I will go do it. I think it will be a lot of fun! That is also where we will buy the corn to freeze on Saturday.
The last thing that I want to tell you about in this letter is that whenever we get back from a trip in the car, I like to go pretend to drive in the front seat. Sometimes I am allowed to and sometimes I am not. But I always ask! I like to wiggle the steering wheel and play with the shifter and turn on the hazard lights and the turn signals and the headlights. I open the glove box and take everything out and I turn on the overhead light and pull the sun visors down. Then I look for more buttons and knobs to play with. Doesn’t that sound like fun? Because it is!
Oh, there is one more thing. I told you I am sleeping in a big bed and as soon as I wake up, I have always just gotten up and knocked on the inside of my door to tell Mommy and Daddy I am awake. Well, this week I have decided that it is nice to read a little before I knock on my door, so I climb out of bed in the morning and go pick a book or two to read and then I climb back in bed and read them. It’s a nice way to start the day, don’t you think?
Well, I am off to find something else to read. We got some new library books yesterday so maybe I will find them! I love you, Great-Grandma.
Love,
Isaac