Summer!

Hi! Well, summer is here and has been for a while. It has been SO hot here in Austria.

Mom and Dad take me swimming pretty often and otherwise I get to run around next to naked. Helps to keep me cool. I have had a couple of exciting weeks. Mom was gone to Italy and I had a great time with Dad. And then friends come to visit for a day and we went swimming. I also got to go to a birthday party for a little friend of mine and went to my new daycare for a morning to try it out. We played in the little swimming pool at the birthday party.

The birthday boy got a tractor for his birthday and I got to play with a little bit. A few things I love: tractors and cars, peanut butter, being naked, playing in the water, reading books (A big fat Hen is my favorite book right now), watering the flowers, and learning new words. I can say a lot of words and Mom and Dad are impressed with the new words I learn daily. Some new words: tractor, baum (tree), bitte schön, danke, thank you, please, PB (peanut butter), malen (color).

I am still a bit of a picky eater, but the things I love to eat are: meat (including chicken, turkey, pork chops, and anything off the grill...mom and dad say I am really Oma and Grandpa's granddaugther), cream of vegetable soup (mom makes it for me...otherwise I don't really care for veggies), noodles, rice, yogurt, apples, rice cakes, peanut butter (but no Jelly, please), chocolate (and again, mom says I am really grandma's grandaugter).
I am counting the days down until we fly to America. Or I guess I would be if I knew how to count. Mom is really excited, Dad too, which makes me really excited. See you all soon! XOXOXO