July 2005--
I just had my grandson, Austin visit me for almost a month! He will be 6 years old in August.
He discovered he liked to use the Paint program on my computer, so he made quite a few pictures. He learned to draw shapes, put color as a background, put colors within closed lines. Some of the pictures he drew were red ovals on a black background, Spongebob, a crow, and a spider web. I was impressed.
We went to the library and got children’s books to read about volcanoes, bugs, native-American folk stories, emotions between children and parents, a field trip to an apple farm, and so on. His favorite seemed to be a story about a girl who brought home a penguin from the zoo, and the problems that caused.
He went to a bicycle race with his father. They also went to see the movie “Ratatoutouille”.
Austin called us from his home yesterday and told us he really missed us. We really miss him too.
