Reading

I love books! I love it when Mommy and Daddy read to me but I am also getting good at "reading" back to them or to my baby and bears. I am quite the story teller!! I am getting very good at telling Mommy and Daddy what certain things are when they point to pictures. They think I'm really smart!!
My mommy and I love to go the library and pick out books to read. Today I checked out "Goodnight Moon!" I also got to visit the turtles and fish in the aquarium there. I love visiting them and continued to tell them "bye bye" all the way home (my mommy said they couldn't hear me anymore but I think they could). I'm also very excited to share that I am now officially signed up for the "Kids Summer Reading Program" at my library! For every 15 minutes that Mommy or Daddy read to me, I get to color in an object on a piece of paper that was given to me. Once I color in all of the objects, I can turn it in and get a PRIZE!! Yipee!! I already got a cool bookmark and pen and a summer pass to Dutch Village just for signing up!! :)

Up North

One of my new favorite places to be is "up north" at the cabin. My Oma and Opa own this cabin in the woods and my mommy spent her whole life going up there and helping Opa hunt (well, just sitting with Opa...she always felt sorry for the deer!), having bonfires, playing in the woods, riding four wheelers and making lots of fun memories during gatherings with friends and family. I love being outside so this was right up my alley! I went up there with just Mommy and Daddy and Bailey a couple of weeks ago and I got to meet all of the animals in the cabin (for some reason, they only showed me their heads....I'll have to talk to Opa about that), feed the fish and talk to the decoy ducks in the pond, go on a long walk, sleep in the bunk room, eat Mancinos pizza, collect rocks, and have lots of fun playing with Mommy and Daddy! I can't wait to go up there again sometime soon!





I got very excited when feeding the fish with Mommy!




feeding the fish (while giving the signature "tongue in the corner of my mouth whenever I'm concentrating" look I inherited from my daddy)!

Life

My mommy is taking way too long to update this blog so I decided to update it myself! Because we've been so busy the past couple of months, I'm planning to do little updates all week to give you a taste of what I've been up to lately! I hope you enjoy it!

I had fun celebrating Tulip Time in early May! I loved smelling the tulips, taking walks downtown and watching all the fun people (and doggies!) that were there. This was my first year attending Kinderplaats, a special event for young kids during opening weekend. I was able to watch people dance and sing on stage, pet a miniature horse, see lots of neat inflatable toys/slides (I'm too little to go on them yet...I think I would have gotten way too scared!), carry around a balloon, see a firetruck (not my daddy's though), and even get a tattoo! My tattoo said "I love Camp Geneva." My mommy and dadddy thought I would like having this (fake) tattoo rubbed on my hand, but sitting on my mommy's lap while the ladies grabbed my hand felt like what it's like to be at the doctor's office so I cried really hard. :( Besides that traumatizing event, I had a lot of fun!! :)