Bumba

Bumba this is how Mark calls a ball, circle, or anything that is round. Bumba is a real word, meaning "ball" in Latvian and is one of Mark' favorite and the most frequently used. Even the Moon is bumba. One day it wasn't a full Moon and Mark noticed that it isn't round. He pointed his finger towards the Moon looked at me with eyes full of sadness and said: ajajaj bumba...

Bumba is also a balloon. Mark loves them, especially when they fly up and stick to the ceiling, so that he cant reach it and makes everyone jump up to get it for him. Once we didn't tight it to the pushchair properly on the street and bumba flew up to the sky to Mark's greatest disappointment. He was so unhappy that could even remember that incident the next day and kept telling me "bumba ga-ga ajajaj". (A short explanation ga-ga is also a word in Mark's dictionary meaning "to fly", "an airplane" or something that is moving in the sky. Ga-ga comes from a bird, Mark calls all birds gaga. So "bumba ga-ga ajajaj" meant that a balloon flew away and it's very sad).

Next day we had to buy a new balloon. Mark was extremely happy, he was taking bumba with him everywhere no matter what he was doing, watching cartoons, drawing, eating playing with his cars, bumba was with him all the time, until he discovered that he actually can sit, lay and even jump on that bumba! We kept telling that if he is going to keep jumping on bubma like that bumba is going to blow up. That was exactly what happened few minutes after. This time however Mark felt probably that bumba's blow-up was related to what he did and prefered to forget and not to mention bumba anymore.