Thursday night we drove to NC to spend the weekend there. Rory was really good on the way there and back. She is a excellent traveler, plus the DVD player helps when she starts to get restless.
Friday she went to the hair dresser with Memaw and Aunt Barbara. I wish they had their camera with them because they say she was being very cute! She got her hair "washed", sat under the hair dryer, got piggies done to her hair and chased the dog around. After they got back from that we went to Ikea. I again wish we had the camera. She only had about a 45 minute nap and was well behaved and not cranky despite that. Danny put her in some of the chairs and was spinning her around and pushing her. She loved it. She only wanted Aunt Barbara to push her in the cart, nobody else was allowed to. When we got the kids bedroom section she went crazy. She was climbing on the beds, playing on them and then tucking herself into them. With how much fun she was having it makes me wonder how she will do when she adventually transfers to a big girl bed. We let her pick out a table and chair set for the living room. She ended up with a red/orange table that we are going to repaint and 2 green chairs. She looks very cute sitting at her table.
Saturday Aunt Joan came over. She brought Rory a toy computer, which is now one of her favorite things. In the afternoon we went to Pattersons Farm. They have goats, pigs, peacocks, and chickens. Of course she loved the animals and wanted to pet them but was not allowed to. They have a play area with swings, play tractors, a pirate ship and a room of corn kernals. Think of sand box with dried corn kernals instead of sand! She was so funny in the corn. When she first got in she didn't like it and was walking really funny. After a few minutes she was loving it and letting Danny completly cover her in it. In fact by the end she was making him bury her so that only her head stuck out; she has never sat that still for so long. Next we went on a tractor drawn hayride through the forest. After we were done with the tractor ride we went to the strawberry fields and picked a big basket of strawberries. Rory did a pretty good job but kept picking any strawberry she saw, which meant there were quite a few that were still green. After a little while she went with Memaw to the other side of the Strawberry field and just ate strawberries as she picked them. She was covered in red by the time we left. Probably not the best day to have her in new shirt and white shorts(memaw worked her grandma magic and got it out).
Sunday we spent at Aunt Joans and Uncle Davids. There house was like a huge playplace for her. They have 2 dogs and a cat. Rory tried to love on the cat but it took off for safety after the first to much love squeeze. Pearl would hide from her but Blue was good about letting her pet him. We went outside and she got to feed the fish in the pond. We took her for a ride in the pedal boat, she put her hands in the water and kept pointing at the fish. Uncle David caught her a fish and she touched it but was not a big fan.(She reacted the same way to the frog Grandad caught for her) She fed the fish some more and was trying to drink the rain water while it was pouring like crazy. She got to drive the little 4 wheeler around the pond and kept saying "do it again, do it again". They also have a goat that she kept waving to but could not get near.
All and all she had a great weekend and had way to much fun like she always does when we go visit. She didn't nap more then an hour each day and was so good and sleeping until almost 9 which she never does at home. It was a good practice run for Disneyland this July.
