Bubbe and violins

We recently had a very satisfying visit from Jeremy's Bubbe (rhymes with "cubby", grandmother in Yiddish, for those who don't know), who came in from Cincinnati for a week with us. Every morning, Jeremy would chant "Bubbe, Bubbe!" as we came down the stairs to breakfast, eager to show or be shown something new and interesting. Every day was a musical treat, for example, with Bubbe playing flute, or drums, or recorder, or singing harmonies with Mama. But the most exciting and satisfying was Bubbe's gift to Jeremy of a real violin. As you can see, Jeremy's love of this instrument has not waned, and in fact while Bubbe was here, reached new heights as he began turning every day objects into his own 'violin'; as shown here, where he decided that a section of a drinking straw was a violin and a toothpick a bow. Currently, his favorite tunes are the ABC song and "Train is a comin', Oh yeah."

Simons by the Sea

Jeremy's first trip to the ocean! As you can see, Jeremy is crazy about his Grandma and Grandpa, and they showed him a very good time in Boca Raton, Florida earlier this month. Jeremy's first reaction was that he didn't like the sand between his toes (as Mommy predicted), but after Grandpa taught him how to make a sand 'cake' and Grandma and Grandpa got him to jump waves, we couldn't get him to leave!

Jeremy's verbal development is staggering (to us, anyway)- he is saying full sentences now and counting to 13 (or at least, can point to random things and say the numbers in order). He also seems to know his colors; he identifies them correctly either by pointing or by saying the color about 65% of the time. That includes red, blue, green, yellow, orange, black, and white (he gets white correct most reliably). Oh, and purple. He loves the purple crayon best.