We spent a fun Mother's Day in Arlee with her grandparents, where she helped Grandma clean out the playhouse, and then on our next jaunt out to Arlee for Grandma's birthday, she got to meet some baby chicks, which she promised not to squeeze too hard.
She's been invited to a few birthday parties that have been celebrated at fun places like Bonner Park and the Carousel. She is still a little leery of the extreme speed and height of the horses on the carousel, so we stuck to the chariot at 15 mph and that suited her fine.
Now that we have a back yard again, Salome has been taking full advantage of our new garden and eating lettuce and sorrel to her heart's content. She also likes the setup under the cherry tree for tea parties.
She's been talking even more than ever, if that's possible, and using all sorts of big words like "collection" and "similar" ("I don't want that cup, I want a similar one.") and using adult terms like "unless" and "actually":
Me: "Look, Salome, a bug!" Salome: "Actually that's not a bug, it's an ant, Mom." And she told her Ammachi when she said the lion had brown hair, "Actually that's not hair, it's a mane." So she's really been telling us how it is.
She has also been grouping and naming random objects, invisible or real. She recently sat in a basket (her nest) and hatched some baby chicks named Isa and Brennan. She set "Brennan" on her shoulder and "Isa" on my shoulder. And she named two slivers in her foot "Hannah" and "Salome".
Her last molars have finally come almost all the way through so she's been much happier about that. Nothing like the absence of tooth pain and the presence of brilliant sunshine to brighten the spirits in time for summer...
