Friday, December 14, 2007

New York City


Here we are back in the city for a visit before we fly off to the other side of the world. As you can probably tell from this photo of our youngest grandchild - it is cold here now. Last time we were here was for the month of August and what a difference! She is bundled up and ready to walk her babies to get a little fresh air. On the left you see Pooh bear wearing his red jacket and on the right is our friend Koala bear. They travel many places with us and always have a position of honor among the group!

Shown is our little one looking at one of the "gifts" we plan to take to Thailand with us. It is basically a flashlight that has a winter scene mounted on top. Inside of the globe is an evergreen tree with lights, a snowman and Styrofoam snowflakes. She seems to be fascinated mostly by the lights. Wonder what the Thai children we meet will think of it!

Here it is almost time for a nap but not until Mommy reads a good book to the little one. We are proud to boast that this little two year old is already bilingual. Sometimes she says something to us and we are not certain if it is baby talk or German. Oops!

How about a look like that when you ask "Do you have poo poo?"


We have been lucky enough to be able to take our little one to an activity called "Music With James". The session begins with each of the participants picking a puppet from a huge pile of them in the middle of our activity carpet. Here I am trying to convince the little one to kiss the frog I have. She has not seen Kermit but I sure have and I'd give him a kiss on his frog lips any day. Hey! Do frogs have lips?

Here we are singing Old MacDonald Had A Farm. And don't you know I wound up with a hippopotamus! Not certain what a hippo might say James sang "with a hippy hippy here and a hippy hippy there". This could be taken in several contexts by someone of my advanced years. Could that refer to the love children of the 60's or maybe the size of someones hips?

Each session James brings in at least one instrument from the orchestra, demonstrates it and then lets the children get a close up view. Here he is showing us a French Horn. He played it first then we each got to see it. He has also brought an accordion, violin, ukulele.

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