Salome in the Yard

Salome loves Grandma's baby robin.  She tries to set it free from its cage and constantly wants to feed it worms - "ooms".  She even got a few in its very excited mouth and was so pleased about that.  She looked a little unsure at first when the bird perched on her arm, but then didn't want to let it go. 

We went to the water park again with almost the whole family and all the kids had a spectacular time going down slides and splashing around.  Salome takes a little while to acclimate to the water, but then she's walking in by herself and falling down and laughing.  As we were leaving the park, Salome thought it would be fun to hang on and cling to the wave-shaped bike racks.  She shouted "Munny!" (monkey) when she would hang or wrap her arms around the bar.  I've been asking her if she's a monkey when she climbs things.  She says "munny" for bunny, money and monkey.

Then she got to try out her new garage sale toys and wear some new (to her) duds.  I found 5 pairs of shoes for her that morning and the ones she chose to wear were the bright red patent leather girly shoes.  

Her friend Mila came over to play too, and they had a good time.  They alternately played cooperatively and yelled at each other and shoved each other a few times.  Babies have their own way of "playing" together.  They did kiss each other several times before Mila left though.  

Salome has been having a BALL playing in the front yard now that it's fenced and we have an array of fine plastic toys to play with.  She cooks, drives, slides and gets inside the fridge.  

But her favorite thing of the week has been her visiting Appachen, who she has dubbed "Appa".  She is his little sidekick.  She is looking forward to seeing both Appachen and Ammachi ("Ammi")  in August...