Dear Avril,
Thank you for the wonderful Father's Day presents. The drawing on the card, the collected stones and shells, the car craft and the handprint will all go in my treasury of things you made. It was great to have a whole weekend with you after I missed you so much when I was in Baltimore. The daycare is wonderful though and sent some photos of you which cheered me up - I've never been gone from you so long before! Your grandpa 'Papa' and Grandma were visiting this weekend for Auntie's convocation. You were so good at the ceremony, everyone around was charmed by you pointing to photos and saying 'baby'. You eventually got a bit squirmy, but had a little nap while everyone applauded. You've been learning words like crazy. You were playing in the dirt in the backyard and I only had to say 'dirt' 4 or 5 times and you got it. Likewise with Papa, that seemed to come natural. I think 'meow', 'eyes' are the newest. You love to make the firetruck noise and hop back and forth from foot to foot in a little jig 'eeee oooo, eeee oooo'. It's very cute. You loved playing in the backyard this weekend, although you got a couple of scrapes on your legs, but it didn't seem to bother you.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Monday, June 2, 2008
doggiedoggiedoggiedoggiedoggie
Dear Avril,
Your vocab is growing and growing every week - you baffle me with the speed at which you pick things up. This last week you learned teeth and car. it's getting so that i won't be able to keep track of this kind of thing anymore. Bath times were a bit rough for a while - you screamed like a banshee when placed in the tub - not sure if that was left over from when you had your bad diaper rash, but you seem to have gotten over than and love bath time again! you love diving down onto your belly and today you marveled at your boats, picking each one up and emptying the ballasts of their water. not sure how seaworthy the boats are but you loved learning the dynamics of the boats filling up with water and then returning the water to the tub! when i asked you 'done?' you definitively said 'done!' and pulled the plug! what an amazing creature you are! I took you for our first shopping trip together to buy shoes - Winnie the Pooh shoes, size 4. You LOVE pulling the velcro straps and chewing on them! I couldn't keep them on your feet the first few days and putting them back on was kinda gross what with the slobbery straps. We visited your granduncle Jim and grandaunt Johanne, and you got to see your great-grandparents again. You had a really good time, and you especially loved max, who you followed around saying 'doggiedoggiedoggiedoggiedoggie' (your favourite word - it's often your first word or last word of the day), which charmed everyone. I'm going to miss you and your mom in Baltimore next week :(
Your vocab is growing and growing every week - you baffle me with the speed at which you pick things up. This last week you learned teeth and car. it's getting so that i won't be able to keep track of this kind of thing anymore. Bath times were a bit rough for a while - you screamed like a banshee when placed in the tub - not sure if that was left over from when you had your bad diaper rash, but you seem to have gotten over than and love bath time again! you love diving down onto your belly and today you marveled at your boats, picking each one up and emptying the ballasts of their water. not sure how seaworthy the boats are but you loved learning the dynamics of the boats filling up with water and then returning the water to the tub! when i asked you 'done?' you definitively said 'done!' and pulled the plug! what an amazing creature you are! I took you for our first shopping trip together to buy shoes - Winnie the Pooh shoes, size 4. You LOVE pulling the velcro straps and chewing on them! I couldn't keep them on your feet the first few days and putting them back on was kinda gross what with the slobbery straps. We visited your granduncle Jim and grandaunt Johanne, and you got to see your great-grandparents again. You had a really good time, and you especially loved max, who you followed around saying 'doggiedoggiedoggiedoggiedoggie' (your favourite word - it's often your first word or last word of the day), which charmed everyone. I'm going to miss you and your mom in Baltimore next week :(
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