Our Busy Girl

We had a wonderful visit with our granddaughter and her parents last weekend. Callie is 18 months old and is quite a busy girl these days. She runs and climbs and even participates in a gymnastics class. One of her favorite things to do is to run and fall into her inflatable swimming pool full of plastic balls. She does this in her nice big family/playroom room downstairs. 

We had the pleasure of accompanying her and her mama to the park for some playtime and watched her climb the big long ramp up to the slide over and over and slide down by herself. She’s not a baby anymore really. She’s one of the kiddos. It is fun to see her paying attention to and interacting with the other kids.

She also has a fascination these days with figuring out how things work like the latches on buckles and on her swing at home. She will work and work at it until she can hold the ends and make it click together and then want it unlatched so she can try it again.

She can very plainly say uh-huh when you ask her if she wants to do something or have something and she also will plainly tell you nooooh if she doesn’t want it. I figured out when I got home that she speaks with an Irish dialect. Here is a sentence from a book I am reading by Jan Karon set in Ireland. “My da was a builder, I grew up with a hammer an’ saw.” Callie calls her daddy da too. Maybe someday soon she will add another syllable but for now he is just da.