Connections: Stella

Haven't seen my 2 1/2 year old granddaughter, Stella, for a couple of weeks. Today I picked her up at 11:00 to get her to her dance class at 11:30. She was talking a lot to me on the way. She told me how she went boating. Dad and mom got in the water, but Halla and Jordan didn't. They didn't even go. The boat went too fast. She went right into dance class and I went to Home Depot. When I picked her up at dance, I just couldn't take her back. So we went to Wendy's where she went on the toilet so I told her I would buy her a frosty. She ate her chicken nuggets and fries, dipping them in her cup of ice cream and saying yum. Then she stirred and stirred her ice cream with a spoon saying she was making blueberry ice cream. I didn't know there was a huge picture of some blueberries behind me. Yhen she made strawberry ice cream. There was also a picture of a strawberry. Then she stirred and stirred and said she was making coffee, every once in awhile dipping in a nugget or a fry and eating it. By then it was melted and she drank it.

Still couldn't take her home. So we went to Sugar House Park, where she went down the slides about 20 times, played with some girls who spoke Swahili, and became terrified when I started to put her in the swing. Before she would go down the slide she would throw her water bottle down the slide and say "I'll get it, grandma!" Then down she would go, pick it up and say "Grandma, I got it!" There was a wide slide so Stella invited me to go down with her.......and I did! It was fun because Stella was so delighted.