MaMa get it!

MaMa and DaDa are very excited. They say that I am now officially speaking in something they call "sentences." I have tried out a few over the months, but now I'm putting together longer groups of words more regularly. Two of my favorites are "MaMa get it" (when I can't reach something) and "MaMa fix it" (usually with "new-new batt-batts"--new batteries). I'm not too sure about "it," though. I sometimes say, "MaMa get it binky" when I want my binky and it's out of reach.

Yesterday I tripped in the back yard/garden and said, "I fell down." MaMa was very impressed by my use of a past tense, let alone an irregular past tense! (Not sure what that means, but that's what MaMa said....) I also now sometimes let people know about more than one thing by adding an "s" to the end--shoes, cookies, etc. And that something belongs to someone by putting an s, too (isn't that confusing??): MaMa's book, JoMo's tea. [I haven't told him about apostrophes yet....].

On Saturday we went to the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta and saw AIR BALLOONS!!! It was so much fun!! I had no idea they were that big! I waved and said "Hello!" to the people in the baskets under the balloons. DaDa has the photos. I'll have to get him to post them here. But until then, here are some public video clips from YouTube. [Just click on the "play" arrow in the middle of the picture to play the video. If that doesn't work, click on the YouTube icon in the bottom righthand side of the picture.]

My favorite--the Flying Scotsman, also known as "Pipey"! He didn't take off, but here you can see him inflating:



Here are the balloons taking off:



And here is the part we missed--the "Night Glow". It didn't start until 9.30 and we had a long drive home....




[By the way, if you want to see the video in the last post, you need to join YouTube (it's free--you just need to register at www.youtube.com) and then ask DaDa to let you see the video. Leave a comment here if you don't know DaDa's email address, and he'll get back to you! He's going to be posting more video clips of JoMo soon, so you might want to sign up. We can give permission to only 25 people to watch the private clips, but we don't want to post them publicly. ]