It has been five weeks since we headed out on our great American family visit adventure and after an amazing few days with my fabulous grandparents Nana and Papa, Lala and Grandpa joined us. To celebrate, we all went out for Mexican food! Everyone expected me to be compliant and eat the chicken quesadillas that they got me, but instead I opted for my Mom's charro beans.
I think it was completely understandable that after all those charro beans, I had a little trouble holding still...
and found that there was more fun to be had UNDER the high chair than there was to be found IN the high chair.
The next day we headed out on our road trip to Louisiana. Grandpa was excited and wanted to hold DouDou for the whole trip, but I said NO!
It was a little bit much for them to expect me to just sit in my car seat for seven hours, so I made a little bit of noise to remind them that I wasn't ok with it. But in the middle of making a lot of noise, I accidentally fell asleep. And when I woke up we went to this really big place called Sam's Club. Mom said it was pretty American to go to Sam's Club.
On the farm there were lots of dogs and lots of "Finchleys." You may remember this Finchley from the olden days of this blog. Chowder remains highly affectionate and we spent some quality time together.
I really tried to embrace the life of a farm girl, although I wasn't too sure about the beetles who were camped out in my sand box or about the gnats which persistently bit us and got in our eyes during our entire visit.
In the fashion of the late Buster, I took off across the cotton fields at break neck speed.
And I thoroughly enjoyed splashing in the baby pools--one by the big pool and one next to the sandbox.
Behold the Vicksburg water park!!! It's the only thing in Vicksburg for a hot little girl to do on a scorcher of day.
So I stripped down to her diapers and, with the help of a new friend, splashed around. It turns out that I'm a pretty big fan of wearing as few clothes as possible:
There was so much to show Lala!
And there were lots of rides to be had in the red wagon that my mom, Aunt Kate and Uncle Will rode in when they were kids!
Life on the farm was perfect...until Cora showed up!At first I didn't realize what a big deal this was because I went to bed and didn't see that everyone was holding Cora. Lala was holding Cora:
Grandpa was holding Cora:
And..the unthinkable....my MOM was holding Cora!!
Uncle Andy looked a little like my Dad looked right after I was born.
The next morning I decided to check out this new threat for myself. She IS pretty cute.
And she pretty much minded her own business so I could still have a nice time playing in the sandbox and baby pool (which my mom said I would have to share with Cora some day. HUMPH!)
Then, suddenly, Aunt Kate had to go in and talk on the phone and my mom had to hold Cora while she did. That was NOT ok with me and made me really, really MAD.
Oh, it was horrible and it took me many days to get over it. I had to do something, so I hit my mom and tried to hit Cora and tried to pry Cora out of my mom's arms and I cried and cried and cried.Fortunately I was able to return to my previous zen-like status with a visit to the resident Koi:
And my older Cousin Jamie was really nice to me, too and made me feel very special.
And I got to eat some of Lala's extra delicious French bread:
So all was good with the world again...as long as my mom didn't hold that pesky Cora!!As if one baby wasn't enough, then ANOTHER one showed up. Meg and Dan and Sebastian paid us a visit.
But Sebastian didn't make me jealous for some reason and was actually really fun. He put me in such a good mood that I even was willing to share Lala's lap with Cora:
Ok, ok...so I was really trying to sit on her, but at least I didn't hit her!If I have a little brother, I hope he's like Sebastian. We like all the same things!
Riding the tractor:
Swinging:
Eating!!!
Lying on the floor and sharing binkies:
Cora likes to eat, too, but she only eats milk. I bet she'll like to ride the tractor when she's bigger and, as long as my mom doesn't hold her, I wouldn't mind having a sister as pretty and sweet as Cora is either. The more I got to know her, the more I loved her. Isn't she cute?
Before we left the farm to head to Atlanta, we went to Mike and Debbie's to visit their very friendly and docile chickens. My favorite thing was to play in their water, but I also liked feeding them.
I had a great time being a temporary farm girl, but we had to go back to the big city--Atlanta--to see my Uncle Will, Super Shug, more of my Aunt Kate and Uncle Andy, Lala and Grandpa and, most importantly, my Daddy, who was flying in to meet us! A family reunion, which I will tell you about in the next blog!
