City Slickers

Stephen took Friday off from work (since this was his Spring Break and he only has to put in 20 hrs technically on the assistantship). We went to Wagner Farms in Glenview and I had a few interesting insights. As we were tip-toeing through the muddy corral areas trying to see the cows, chickens and horses, I noticed a worker kind of watching us with a giggle and I felt like such a city-slicker. We had come totally unprepared for the wet and mud and were carrying the girls as much as possible because of course Odessa was wearing her brand new shoes and I was stressing about it. What happened to us? We used to live on a 10 acre farm! Here Ada figured out how to get eggs out of the nests.
Then they brought the cow in and milked her with the machine for all the kids. It was funny to feel so touristy watching something I used to watch my grandpa do all the time as a kid. I had a moment where I forgot we were in the Chicagoland area and thought we must be on a road trip somewhere. Do you have those out-of-body moments ever? It was refreshing to be there and forget the city (or busy suburban life) for a moment.
Ada is starting to do the actions to primary songs! This totally surprised us this morning when were playing the songs and noticed she was following along with Odessa. She also waved "bye-bye" to a stranger for the first time this week. It turned out to be our lovely Walmart check out gal who was very honored that she was Ada's first wavee. The best is that she does the floppy, broken wrist kind of wave. The floppy wave is also how she leads the music to her favorite songs and how she does "popcorn" from Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree.
Saturday night we had Erin and Ambrose over, Erin is a co-worker of Stephen's. We observed the Earth Hour by turning out all our lights from 8pm-9pm and used candlelight for dessert and playing a game of Bananagram. If you haven't heard of this game, it's really fun. It's kind of a cross between Scrabble and Boggle but I enjoyed it more than I have those others. We really liked it- another game we'll have to add to our collection. It's always fun to have people over and discuss interesting topics with others. We've had 2 weekends of that, lucky us. Good food, good friends, good conversation. Aren't those the basics in life?