Visited our grand daughter Anya and her parents, John and Rachel. She is so cute and happy all the time.
We watched and played for hours with little Anya, 14 months old. She is such a delight. She is cheery and happily sports a contagious smile. She looks through her stacks of books and brings one right over, crawls into your lap to hear a good story from Grandma and Grandpa.
She has a surprisingly long attention span. It is interesting to watch children learn. Anya spent quite a while putting little square blocks down the tube from long spent Christmas wrapping paper. She figured out the five blocks could easily be retrieved from the other end when they slide down the tube. She picked them up one at a time and replaced them in the tube for a big slide. After many repetitions she had figured out how to hold 4 blocks in her little hands and slipped them in the tube.
Another time she was learning to get in and out of a Christmas sleigh. This foot here and that hand there and pretty soon she tumbled out. Up again to crawl in and work at getting out.
What a delight to spend the New Years weekend with her and her parents, John and Rachel. By the time we said good-by she had her Grandpa’s number with her little flirty eyes and smile. She says lots of words some are understandable. Grandma was “ammow” and Grandpa sounded like Grandpa or our ears were playing tricks on us.
She has a Nana nearby who loves to visit and play with her. When we went to Diane’s (Nana) for dinner, Anya played with Nana putting different shapes into an elephant. She learned quickly that you could just put them in the elephant’s big trunks also. The ultimate in work around technology.
On New Year’s Day 2010 Frog Park at Boston Common downtown and later we all went to visit Anya’s other Grandma (Nana), Diane in Salem, MA.