Dear Kieran,
How are you doing? I’m doing fine. I had so much fun with you
yesterday! I can’t wait to see you again in just two weeks on the afternoon of
May 24.
Thank you for introducing your stuffie penguins to me! They look
like they’ve received lots of love and affection from you, and that’s cool. I
remember how much you enjoyed the penguin cartoons that you would watch on the DVD
player when we made those long drives from Palmdale to San Diego. It was always
a great pleasure of mine to hear you laugh and giggle from the back seat!
Putting together the “Star Trek” legos was a lot of fun, too. You
did a great job of following the instructions. We still have the Klingon ship
and the transporter to build. There were a couple of other “Star Trek” lego
models at the toy store, so I shall pick them up for the next time we get
together. I think there were some other characters we can get as well. They
also had Lone Ranger Lego sets, so maybe we’ll do those when we run out of “Star
Trek” kits!
Is your wooden car model holding up well? If the wheels ever fall
off, you just have to use some wood glue to put them back together. You did a
very nice job of painting the car!
You were very good at playing War! I shall have to find some
additional games for us to play. Have you ever heard of the game “Operation”? You
have to pick up little pieces out of a “body,” but if you touch the body it
buzzes and you don’t get the piece. Whoever has the most pieces at the end
wins. I bet you would like that game. Speaking of the body, the next time we
get together I also will bring the human body book with the skeleton that we can
put together.
I am glad you enjoyed the book about Egypt, too. It had a lot of interesting
pictures, didn’t it? One of your favorite places to go when I lived in
Encinitas/San Diego was the Museum of Man, which had a whole section of Egyptian
mummies and sarcophaguses as well as a great children’s area for learning about
Egypt. We’d take the trolley there, and on the walk over from the trolley stop
would look around in the sculpture garden and sometimes have lunch in the open
air cafeteria next to it. Their gift store was a lot of fun, too – if I
remember correctly, we got you some Egypt and Darwin toys, there. Anyway, the
museum was one of your favorite places, and you’d even beg me to go there!
We had so much fun that we didn’t have time to do everything, like
play with the Hot Wheels car, the map puzzle, or the sticker play book. Maybe
next time!
Well, that is all for now. I love you and miss you like crazy. I’ll
write again next Saturday and will see you on May 24!
Love,
Dad
