Dear Great-Grandma,
I am playing with stickers right now. Oma gave them to me. I am sticking them all over my arm and my shirt and I figure I can dictate a letter to Mommy while I am busy with my stickers.
How are you doing? I am doing well. I have had a good week. I got to visit Oma and Opa for two days! Mommy and I went to their house on Monday and stayed till Tuesday and then we went home. We missed Daddy but we had a lot of fun.
We helped Oma outside in her garden. She had a lot of plants that needed to be trimmed or pulled out. She gave me a little wheelbarrow and I wheeled it around with plants inside. Mommy worked hard and I worked some, too. I liked visiting the doggies that live next door. One of them gave me a kiss on the nose!
Opa played with me a little bit, even though he was very busy. He sang songs to me and played ball with me, and we also played Where’s the Mouse? That’s a game where you have a little toy mouse and you hide it and then you have to find it. We made it up ourselves. Once we really lost the mouse and Mommy had to come find it for us. She is good at finding things.
Oma played with me a lot because she wasn’t as busy as Opa. She read books to me and we played with trains together. I am good at putting train track together. It is fun to make it connect and build long tracks. Someday when I am older I will learn more about making big train tracks but in the meantime I will practice putting them together.
Mommy made applesauce for Oma while we were there. Oma hurt her finger a little and that makes it hard for her to do some things, so Mommy did some of them for her. We ate some of the applesauce for lunch and it was YUMMY! I really like applesauce.
Oma gave some of the herbs in her garden to Mommy to take home, and Mommy made mint tea, and she also dried some thyme and some rosemary. They smelled very interesting!
Another very interesting thing that happened this week is that we got a new car. It is a car just for me. Mommy and Daddy don’t fit in it. We went to someone’s house with lots of things out in the yard and this was one of the things, so we got to take it home with us. I really, really like it! It doesn’t have a floor, so I sit on the seat and put my feet down through to the ground and make it go that way. It does have a steering wheel, and it also has a horn that squeaks and a window crank that turns and a couple other knobs that turn. And it has a sunroof too! I like to drive my car around on the back patio, though sometimes I get frustrated when it won’t go the direction I would like it to.
Let’s see, what else? A lot of people came to our house one night this week. That was fun. Mommy says it was a “neighborhood potluck” and a lot of our neighbors came. She planned it herself with another neighbor and it was nice to have all those people there talking. It wasn’t all adults. Some girls came too. They were a lot older than me but they liked playing with me. A lot of older girls like to play with me, and I don’t mind. They are fun to play with.
I also like playing with my friend Eleanor. She is older than me too but not by quite so much. We go to her house sometimes to play. She has a baby brother named Lewis. I like to rock Lewis in his rocking seat when he cries. He has eyes and a nose and toes! I don’t have a baby brother or sister.
Mommy and I have to go shopping this morning. We need to get batteries and food for me. We go to a different store than we usually do to find things for me that don’t have wheat in them. We get rice bread so I can eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I like peanut butter and jelly, especially if it is good grape jelly that Mommy made!
I hope you are doing okay. Are the leaves changing colors at your place? They are starting to change colors here. They are very pretty. Mommy planted pansies and they are pretty too. Sometimes I help her water them! Maybe sometime Aunt Lucy can help you write to me again. I would like to know what music you like. I am very interested in music right now. Maybe you could tell me about plants that you like, too.
Love,
Isaac