More tricks up my sleeve!
Hi everyone!
Well, it’s been beautiful these past few days, so this morning my mom and I decided to go to the park! Even though it’s more crowded on sunny days, I still like to play on the slides and especially like to hang out at the gazebo. (I tell my mom, ‘go gaZEHbo mama!’). Sometimes when we are done with the park, we walk back through town and watch all the people who are shopping and eating. My favorite part is this big statue of a cat (I call it ‘big brown cat’), with a sign with letters next to it. Mommy is very patient and lets me climb all over the statue and pet it and count the letters on the sign - it’s good times!
So what are these new tricks I speak of in the title? Well, for starters, I surprised my mommy when I was taking a bath today and I started counting and kept going all the way to twenty! She knew I could count to 10, but when she heard 11, 12, 13…she flipped out and called Daddy! What can I say - counting is really fun; the Count on Sesame Street always has a fabulous time when he does it! (And he can make it thunder - I haven’t figured out how to do that yet).
Other tricks include my ever expanding musical repetoire. I can now sing ‘ABC’, ‘Bob the Builder’, ‘Sss Sss Went the Little Green Snake’, ‘Wheels on the Bus’, and hum the theme song to Wallace and Grommit. I showed that last one off at Cappy and Pammy’s house the other night, and all the grownups stopped talking for a second to listen - talk about a captive audience! Man, I got ‘em in the palm of my hand! I rehearse when I go down for my nap in the afternoons - Mommy can hear me through the door, and I sing myself to sleep!
And lastly…I’ve been reading to my parents! Now, my mom says she should clarify that I am not actually ‘reading’ persay; however, my favorite thing to do lately is grab a stack of books, and then read back what I have memorized from the pages back to my mom and dad. They seem particularly enthused about this one, and they let me take up a lot of their time doing it! Mommy says she can’t believe how much I can remember, and it’s nice to have someone else read to her for once! My favorite books to read to my folks are: “Baa Choo”, “Mrs. Wishy Washy” (both are from this neat bookstore in NY that Katil and Tully always go to, just for me! Cool, huh?), “The Good Humor Man”, “How Do You Get There?”, “Curious George Rides”, “Blue Hat/Green Hat”, and “The Going to Bed Book”. Good times! And when Mommy or Daddy don’t have a free moment to sit with me? Then I just read out loud to myself!
Oh! And there is this great movie you HAVE to see - I can’t get enough of it! It’s called “Toy Story 2″, and it has this cool spaceman named Buzz Lightyear who flies, and Sheriff Woody, who has to get his arm fixed, and a silly dinosaur and a pig and mommy and daddy potato heads, and space cats! I give it four blankets! (My higheset rating)
Hope everyone is enjoying all this nice sunshine and getting to ride their bikes and play with their wagons like I am! Happy Friday!