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265 Wednesday 8:45 P.M. May 16 My Dearest Darling: Have just finished getting my little snapshot album up to date. Sweety, and its such a satisfaction - You'll laugh at this - for about five minutes I searched for some pictures I didn't have - mental pictures of the inside of your Quonset, as you’d sketched them! I laughed too, when I realized what caused my confusion. You would have laughed too, if you’d seen Wendy and me before we got up this morning. I took her into bed, sat her facing me on my tummy, and we had a talking lesson which went something like this: (I keep repeating, until I get some answer) [pg 2] Mummie Wendy Dad-dy Da-da (always get this on the 1st try) Mum-mie BA-BA Crack-er CA-KER Dress De or Des Wen-dy BA-BY After it takes a long time to get an acceptable answer, because Wendy most often answers with da-da or ba-ba interspersed with her own garble and kissing noises. She has a wide range of sounds now - Oh, almost forgot she still comes out with na-na, na-na when she sees me coming with her cup of milk. I've thrown out all the bottles, so that she has to drink out of a cup or not at all - its hard on both of us -but its a hard shift for any baby to make. Read a book today, and I think you would enjoy it - not so much for the narrative, as the [pg 3] style of writing. Its “Many a Watchful Night” by Lt. John Mason Brown USNR. The subject is the invasion on the Normandy beach. One sentence I liked particularly well: “Meanwhile scuttlebut not only boiled by boiled over. Every mouth was a foaming caldron for it; every ear a sturdy ladle.” A propos of nothing - but I've been meaning to mention as a sidelight on Carmel - the Chinese woman artist who strides around town dressed in the conventional slit skirt model, made of [?] red Scotch plaid- Stopped in to see Bev for a minute this morning, and found her with Jack drinking martinis - Jack looking slightly the worse for wear. Having his wife and two babies here doesn't seem to make any difference. Should I be amused or not? [pg 4] I don't honestly know. Received #218 this afternoon - mail has been very slow this week. Loved the story of “a successful withdrawal after a series of rear-guard actions…” Glad the clipping on the Okinawa wedding made such a timely arrival. Wendy looked so cunning today dressed in white shoes and socks, white eyelet embroidered jumper, white sweater and the enclosed blue ribbon in her top knot - She looked like a miniature “Alice in Wonderland.” Its windy tonight, and the bushes and branches are scraping along the sides of our little house, an eerie sound and doesn't go well with the mystery play on the radio. Time to go to bed I guess- I love you darling- Bobby
