I've been surprised how wild it seems here to me. At home we are in a fairly urban environment that is relatively flat and surrounded by fields of corn and soy. Minnesota is a beautiful place that I think of as home these days so it was strange to be in the place that had always been home and feel so familiar but simultaneously out of touch. I did need to adjust to the vertical space- trees everywhere and rolling hills. My mom is in a thickly settled part of the state so I also had to adjust to the amount of time spent driving. Yikes! I do not miss that part- especially Route 9!
My parent's house is essentially in the woods and surrounded by wildlife. There is a little marsh way behind their house that attracts all sorts of animals and it's been so nice to just hang outside and see the different birds and plants. I didn't realize how much I had missed blue jays for example. Crazy. Ada has been helping her Grampa in the yard weeding and such.
This morning Emma woke up a couple hours before Ada (a good thing since Ada went to bed at about 10 last night after a party thrown for our arrival) and we just had a nice quiet time together which felt more like a normal day. Here are a few shots of our little Emma boo playing with a toy house.
I shot a video of Emma making an elephant sound that she learned from her sister who learned from her dear Auntie Julia. Unfortunately I can't get it to load. I'll keep trying.
So sweet! I love Emma's totally-absorbed-in-concentration mode.
ReplyDeleteI love Massachusetts, but there's so much of everything packed into a small area - hills, winding roads, trees, stone walls, old barns, farms, rivers, ponds, ocean, mountains, 17th, 18th, 19th c. architecture, scenic this and scenic that. And oh look! there's a steeple! It's kind of overwhelming.