Farm Babies

Last Saturday was a country/farm kind of day! Clarita and I left at 7:40 and headed up to Abuelita's house to help with some yard work since the wild boars destroyed her yard. Clara thought it was really fun and helped pull weeds and played in the dirt. She was obsessed with the dogs and spent quite a lot of time standing next to their pen saying woof woof and signing dog. She loved putting her fingers through the fence and laughing when the dogs licked them. Clarita even found a shovel to lug around! Clara worked up such an appetite that she ate an entire slice of pizza, bite by bite (she would only eat the veggie pizza and refused to even taste Dada's meat pizza)!

We headed back to Reedley and Clara took a short nap in the car on the way to Lyla and Cooper's birthday party. They turned two and had a party by the river. We took a tractor ride from Natalie's parents' house (right by Fafa and Abuela Sheri's house) to the beach and Clara thought it was pretty fun. Once we got to the beach she had fun playing in the dirt and chasing after the other kids.

Unfortunately it became super windy which caused us all to be covered with dust numerous times. It was finally decided to pack up and move the party back to the house. We decided to walk up instead of taking the tractor as we thought it would be faster and less dusty (we were right on both accounts). The walk was nice through the orchards where I used to run when we lived in Kevin's grandma's old house. It made me nostalgic for country runs! Clara thought that the walk back was fun and insisted on carrying her rake the entire way!

After Lyla and Cooper blew out their candles and got their first real taste of cake, we decided that the kids needed a bath as they were covered in dirt from head to toe. It was hilarious trying to bathe all three in an old claw foot bathtub with dish soap because none of us had baby soap (fyi it works just as well and didn't even cause tangles). Lyla spent most of the bath on her stomach blowing bubbles and drinking bath water, Cooper kept "adjusting" the water temperature, and Clara refused to sit down instead standing in the tub waving to Lyla and drinking bath water. They eventually all got clean and it was a fun group bath experience! As Natalie put it, "this is the life of a farm baby!"