Bridges!
Hi everyone! Yup, it’s been a while but I’ve been busy all the same! Learning new words, new skills, new ways to assert my free will, new ways to mess with my big brother…(just kidding! we get along really well most of the time!). Anyway, it has come to my attention in the last couple of weeks that there is this awesome thing called a bridge! Bridges are great big things, and sometimes they have names (like the Golden Gate Bridge, or the Bay Bridge) and sometimes they are different colors (orange or gray) and sometimes you can drive your car on them and sometimes you just walk on them. My very favorite is the Golden Gate Bridge - we have a poster of it in our house (and a matching magnet on the fridge), plus a 3-D puzzle of it on the shelf in our bedroom! I like to point them out every day to anyone I can find, and I will gesture to the bridge and say “Look, there is a bridge!”. It comes out like “Bah Buh Buh Bah Biszh!”, but they get what I mean (my family is pretty good at speaking Sutterese). Best of all? This bridge also shows up in both a board book that I make my mom read to me all the time (Good Night San Francisco) and also a video that my brother and I get to watch sometimes about these little kids and a rocket who go to San Francisco and have to fly over the bridge). I like to find anything that even slightly resembles a bridge and point it out to people (freeway overpasses, gates, etc). And then last weekend my mom and dad took me and Decker to a neat place called the Bay Area Discovery Museum in San Francisco, which…wait for it…was located at Fort Baker, which is at the base of the GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE! And…the museum has a minature version of the bridge that kids can climb on and pretend to help build, with wooden rivets and girders that we can attach and little orange hard hats you can wear. Which was fun and all, but as my folks kept trying to get me and Decker to pose by the fake bridge, I had to keep pointing out to them vehemently that, uh - mom and dad? the REAL bridge is right behind you! We did get to walk over to the base of it after we were done with the museum, but it was so windy that it wasn’t very fun to get that close. But it was still amazing to get to see the wonder that is a BISZH!