The family went
geocaching at Long Lake Park last weekend.
Ingrit's becoming quite the park
connoisseur. She's super excited to see kids, slides, tunnels and climbing stuff. When we find the caches she gets excited to see what's in them and often picks out her own swag--toy zebra might be the best find yet.
We're getting ready for Herfel Family vacation up in Cable, WI next week. Last summer Ingrit was just 3 1/2 months old when we were there, so this summer should be quite a different experience for all of us. She'll still be sleeping in a play yard, but she'll be walking and going in the lake and sharing ice cream cones in town and telling Grandpa and Grandma H all of her new jokes. She might even be following her cousins around! We're all looking forward to a week up north in the woods with family.
Nowadays Ingrit pretends to read. She points to words make souns like she's sounding out what they say. She'll also "read" a book to you if you ask her. Still not much English coming out of that baby, but boy does she understand a lot! She can point out body parts like a pro--even on animals in books. "Where's the monkey's toes?" She also will hear words and go get books with those words. She'll grab "Goodnight Moon" when someone says "Goodnight." Loves to read.
Two weekends ago we spent the day out at G and G W's house. Ingrit splashed around in her wading pool, gave hugs and kisses to the people and the dogs and ate her first whole fresh peach. Mmmm. Juice ran everywhere and I've never seen someone enjoy a peach so much!
If any adult enjoyed anything as much as Ingrit likes just about everything, they'd be loopy happy. And generally considered quite nuts I'm thinking.
One more funny thing Ingrit's doing lately. When she sees a kid or someone she knows or Jack or PJ, she holds out her pointer finger and shouts, "Hey!" I think she's doing it like "Sid the Science Kid" does. It's super funny. Okay, one more thing, the telephone. Always fascinated by it, now the Ingers holds it up to her ear and says, "hi".
