Dear Great-Grandma,
How are you doing this week? I am doing well. I have been practicing my vocabulary. Just this evening I was showing Mommy and Daddy how many words I know. We were all eating dinner together and I started naming everything I could see. “Door. Pumpkin. Table. Refrigerator. Stove. Light.” Then Mommy and Daddy started asking me the names of some other things and I did pretty well. I got “spoon” and “fork” but not “knife,” and I got the plate and bowl mixed up but I know napkin.
Speakiing of napkins, right now I am putting a napkin on my head and playing peekaboo with Mommy. She thinks it is pretty funny and so do I. Ooh, now she is tickling me! Hold on, I have to try to tickle her back.
Okay, I am done. I want to tell you about my pumpkins! I have two pumpkins. I got the first one when Mommy and I were selling corn a week or two ago. The man who grows the corn also grows pumpkins and eggplants and other stuff, and he gave me a little tiny pumpkin just for me. It is probably a little bigger than your hand. It is a lot bigger than my hand because my hands are small, but it’s just the right size for me. So that is one of my pumpkins, and I really like it. But this past weekend we went to something called a “Relief Sale,” and Daddy bought me a BIG pumpkin there! It is only half as tall as me, but it weighs a lot more than I do. I can’t move it! So now I have a little pumpkin and a big pumpkin, and I like them both a lot. I can say “little pumpkin” and “big pumpkin.” Mommy made up a pumpkin song for me. You can sing it to the tune of “Monkeys Jumping on the Bed.” Here’s how it goes:
One little pumpkin sitting on the floor;
Isaac went out to get some more.
He found one and brought it in–
Now little Isaac has two pumpkins!
And then the next verse is about two pumpkins, and then three, and then four, and you can keep counting as long as you like. I ask Mommy to sing it for my by saying, “Pumpkin, floor!”
Another song I like that Mommy sings is “Me Oh My,” and she made that one up too. It is a lullaby, so sometimes when I climb into bed with Lamby I say “Me oh my” and she sings it for me. I think she likes it when I ask for that one because she made it up just for me.
I saw Oma this weekend, too. She came down to visit us and go to the Relief Sale. The Relief Sale is where everybody gets together and thinks of a bunch of ways to give money to people who need it. Mommy made a lot of bread to sell at the sale, and other people gave toys to sell, and quilts, and other pretty things. But the things I liked best were the horses, the tractors, and the bounce house. There were big horses pulling a wagon, and big tractors pulling other wagons. I got to ride on a wagon behind a tractor and Daddy got to drive a tractor. That was fun! But even more fun was the bounce house. It is like a big balloon that you can go inside and bounce in. I was a very good bouncer! Even though I am so young and little, and everybody was older than me, I only fell down a couple times and I got right back up again. I jumped and jumped and didn’t want to get out. Even when Oma showed me the balloon she got for me, I still didn’t want to get out! Daddy had to come in and get me.
Let me see, what else have I been doing lately? I am learning to help Mommy. Lately I have started trying to do whatever she is doing, and while I am doing it I say, “Helping!” I try to be helpful whenever I can, unless I am doing something more important. Like reading, for instance. Oma brought me a new book this weekend that I really like. It is called “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you see?” I can’t quite say all that but I can say, “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, see!” and that means I want Mommy to read me the book again. We have read it many times so far. I don’t know how many. Maybe, one, two, three, four, one, two, three… times. (That is the way I count now, by the way. I count to four and then I start over. One, two, three, four, one, two ducks!)
Well, tonight I am going to a barn party with Mommy and Daddy and some girls and boys from our church. I won’t be able to stay the whole time because it is past my bedtime but I get to come for part of it, which is nice. I don’t know what a barn party is like, though. Have you ever been to a barn party? Anyway, I suppose I should go and get ready for that. I have to put my socks and shoes and coat on. Good night!
Love,
Isaac