Sunday, May 3, 2015

April: Baby goats, thambi, and a duck race

It is springtime. Or so says the calendar. Amma says that so much rain isn't very usual. Anyway, springtime means little things appear everywhere. Little flowers, little cows. And baby goats, baby goats! We got to go to a goat farm and see a bunch of really cute little baby goats (3 weeks old and even two that were 1 week old). They were hopping around a bunch, trying to climb things. There was even this little race with kids (the goat kind) and kids (the human kind); however someone ran into me, which wasn't that fun. Maybe I'll try again next year though.

I have more and more fun hanging out with little Thambi too. We had a lovely Easter where we got dressed up for church (actually I even got to have two cool outfits that day, including one with a little hat), Thambi was baptized, we had a nice brunch at Amma's house, and then went to great Aunt Eryn's for a big family party. The highlight of that party was getting to search for a bunch of Easter eggs! (Though Amma learned not to buy play doh yet for me...)

Were you wondering what I did related to trains this month? I got to go to the train museum in Golden with Grandpa (and amma and thambi)! It is such a cool place. We of course watched the little trains race around the track a bunch, but my favorite was exploring the red caboose near the roundhouse. No one else was in there (and it was even a little dusty), so we got to go all around it and even climb way up high and look out the windows. Nearby I got to explore something else that looked like a crane and even got my hands goopy. Grandpa also showed me how to turn a bunch of brake wheels and we looked at a bunch of couplings.

Recently I've been interested in Batman. And I got a pretty cool play Batman who is actually not so little; it probably stands around two feet high. He has this cool cape and can fly around places like my room or the back yard. Occasionally I take him to sleep with me, but that spot is usually held tightly by Moosie.

Finally, since the creek was running strong, we raced little plastic ducks in the river! This was really fun - basically Isla, Nima, and I threw our ducks in the river upstream and the moms (mostly Shannon and Mariko) caught them downstream, though sometimes they got caught in little eddies (I think the moms involved decided that the whole thing was a lot of fun and a little dangerous).

Thank you God for springtime, for little flowers, little brothers, and for water.