I pretty much know my numbers. You might hear me spontaneously erupt into 6-7-8-9-10! Though on the rare occasion five may come after two. I like to try and teach these to Thambi, but especially like showing him the names for nose, eyes, ears, and mouth.
Ayyamma is back in town, which is great. Especially because it means I get to eat dosai! Yum yum yum. And lots of mambalam (mango)! And other good things like samba and various chutneys. She also looks after me sometimes on Fridays, which I like.
I really love where I spend my weekdays - at Don and Barbara McGregor's. I like to tell Don about all of my ideas. We go hunting for worms if it is wet out (one day we counted over 100 worms just on the way to Don and Barbara's!), and then we go fishing with them (and even eat the fish!). Sometimes we get out fun things like capes and masks and I can play pretend Batman. We sing a lot of songs too, including of course our ABCs, which as a group we sung back to all of the parents when the 5-year olds in our group 'graduated' as they are off to kindergarten next year. I will continue on, but now there are starting to be younger kids there for the summer. At Don and Barbara's I made this cool handprint in cement for Amma for Mother's Day. Amma likes it a bunch.
My language skills developed a lot this month. As did my ability to say cute things like "aaawww" when looking at baby cows. I can ask Amma if she will roll the window down when we are driving. Some of my favorite words and things are cranes, cement truck (or mixer), and tractor. And other new words this month include oil well and sprinkler, which I learned on our drive out east to the Wild Animal Sanctuary (this was a pretty cool place where we saw lots of lions, tigers, black bears, grizzly bears, and more).
One of the things I am partial to is baseball! It started maybe a month and a half ago when I saw some baseball on the TV at a restaurant. At home I asked for a mitten, and Amma found some really big mountaineering gloves that work pretty well as a glove. I do this cute thing where I get in an athletic stance and then slap my hand into the mitt, getting ready for the ball to come. I complete my ensemble with long socks that have stripes on them, shiny blue pants with stripes on the sides (thanks Uncle Chris!), and my hat. Sometimes I will even 'ask' to sleep in my pants, or even wear them a second day in a row. I love throwing the ball. Oh and one night we saw a t-ball game at the nearby park which was fascinating, but I mostly liked it because I got to try on a helmet, borrow a real glove, and throw the ball with Amma.
Of course there were a few fun times with trains too. The first was a small loop train ride at the zoo, and while there we enjoyed seeing the usual suspects of giraffes, monkeys, elephants, and more. Oh and there was this girl in a baseball uniform that I decided it made sense to follow for a while (since she had good taste in activities). The second train experience was heading up to the model train museum in Greeley. There was this tiny steam engine that went through tunnels and over bridges and by cities. It was quite cool. And there were even real live trains outside that we saw twice (technically three times) - they were carrying long wind turbine blades that were beautiful, and so long they even spanned two cars.
We rounded out the month with a Ferris wheel ride along the Boulder Creek (my first), dancing to salsa music and eating Ghanaian food at Nii Armah's, and enjoying Indian cuisine with friends.
Thank you God for bears, capes, baseball, and family.
Ayyamma is back in town, which is great. Especially because it means I get to eat dosai! Yum yum yum. And lots of mambalam (mango)! And other good things like samba and various chutneys. She also looks after me sometimes on Fridays, which I like.
I really love where I spend my weekdays - at Don and Barbara McGregor's. I like to tell Don about all of my ideas. We go hunting for worms if it is wet out (one day we counted over 100 worms just on the way to Don and Barbara's!), and then we go fishing with them (and even eat the fish!). Sometimes we get out fun things like capes and masks and I can play pretend Batman. We sing a lot of songs too, including of course our ABCs, which as a group we sung back to all of the parents when the 5-year olds in our group 'graduated' as they are off to kindergarten next year. I will continue on, but now there are starting to be younger kids there for the summer. At Don and Barbara's I made this cool handprint in cement for Amma for Mother's Day. Amma likes it a bunch.
My language skills developed a lot this month. As did my ability to say cute things like "aaawww" when looking at baby cows. I can ask Amma if she will roll the window down when we are driving. Some of my favorite words and things are cranes, cement truck (or mixer), and tractor. And other new words this month include oil well and sprinkler, which I learned on our drive out east to the Wild Animal Sanctuary (this was a pretty cool place where we saw lots of lions, tigers, black bears, grizzly bears, and more).
One of the things I am partial to is baseball! It started maybe a month and a half ago when I saw some baseball on the TV at a restaurant. At home I asked for a mitten, and Amma found some really big mountaineering gloves that work pretty well as a glove. I do this cute thing where I get in an athletic stance and then slap my hand into the mitt, getting ready for the ball to come. I complete my ensemble with long socks that have stripes on them, shiny blue pants with stripes on the sides (thanks Uncle Chris!), and my hat. Sometimes I will even 'ask' to sleep in my pants, or even wear them a second day in a row. I love throwing the ball. Oh and one night we saw a t-ball game at the nearby park which was fascinating, but I mostly liked it because I got to try on a helmet, borrow a real glove, and throw the ball with Amma.
Of course there were a few fun times with trains too. The first was a small loop train ride at the zoo, and while there we enjoyed seeing the usual suspects of giraffes, monkeys, elephants, and more. Oh and there was this girl in a baseball uniform that I decided it made sense to follow for a while (since she had good taste in activities). The second train experience was heading up to the model train museum in Greeley. There was this tiny steam engine that went through tunnels and over bridges and by cities. It was quite cool. And there were even real live trains outside that we saw twice (technically three times) - they were carrying long wind turbine blades that were beautiful, and so long they even spanned two cars.
We rounded out the month with a Ferris wheel ride along the Boulder Creek (my first), dancing to salsa music and eating Ghanaian food at Nii Armah's, and enjoying Indian cuisine with friends.
Thank you God for bears, capes, baseball, and family.
