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Things I want to remember about our girls’ weekend in Arizona with Mima…
- Watching the sunset with you on the deck of the townhouse where we stayed the night we arrived.
- Visiting beautiful Slide Rock State park just outside Sedona – the butterflies, collecting different grasses, you independently refusing help down the massive staircase (even though you kept tripping), Mima breaking (yes, literally) her toe on a rock in the cold water. 🙁 She’s sooo tough she still hiked all over Sedona and the Grand Canyon, and without a word of complaint.
- Watching you successfully drink milk out of a glass glass every morning.
- Yours (and Mima’s) first view of the Grand Canyon. Your first view, but your second visit. The last time Momma was there, you were in my tummy. The way you love to climb rocks, collect rocks and sticks and leaves. But you are scared of all bugs. I joke you are going to be a geologist or a botanist. You may follow in Daddy’s footsteps in the Natural Resource Science (Daddy’s major) department, but not much chance you’ll be an etymologist (Daddy’s minor). You do have a science gene from both your old folks though. So I’m not surprised by your love of nature.
- Trying on every pair of shoes Mima brought, and to give you an idea how many that was, she brought a *shoe bag*. That’s your Mima. Apparently you’ve inherited that love (of shoes) from her. You would go downstairs to her room and put one one, climb up the stairs, show them off, climb back down the stairs and return with a different pair on.
- The brush and fall down game you invented with Mima. You would make her sit on the couch, brush her hair for a couple of strokes and then fall down, insisting Mima fall down too on the opposite end of the couch. And then we’d all laugh hysterically. And do it all over again. Again and again. Not sure what the point was, but it sure was funny. 🙂
- The super long ride home (with no DVD player because Mima’s Jeep’s power outlet went dead). You were good for about 3 hours, playing with your leap frog thingy which you have figured out how to use really well. (Although you got really frustrated when you accidentally put it in any mode other than the “Letters” mode… until you figured out that turning it off and back on resets it to to Letters. Proud of you for figuring that out. You were proud of yourself too!) The last couple hours were pretty torturous. You were done, done, done with being in the car and you were soooo tired and refused to sleep… until the last half hour of blissful silence when you just couldn’t fight it anymore. 🙂
