My trip to Ooohtah
Hi everyone! Wow, it’s been almost a month since I last posted - I’ve been up to lots of stuff, so I have lots to tell you about!
In late July, I went with my mommy, Katil, Tully, and Cappy to Utah. I really like Utah - I’ve been there before, and I could remember it was lots of fun, so for about a week before we left, I kept chanting “I want to go to Oooh-tah!” to my folks, so they would get the message that I was psyched. (And I didnt’ want them to forget we were going!). Daddy stayed home, and painted the walls in our stairwell/hallway. He asked me what color I wanted him to paint the walls, and I told him “Red! with a chicken!”, but when we came back he and Mommy had gone ahead with blue and green. (Whatever - they asked my opinion, and then went with something boring!). Anyway, we flew on this really cool airplane, and since I am a seasoned traveler, I was a really good boy and sat quietly and read the newspaper they always put in the back of the seat of front of you - it’s neat, because it’s mostly pictures of people doing silly things like going down slides and taking naps in their chairs and wearing yellow masks on their faces…you know, fun stuff to look at! Then I read lots of books and drank my juice. I wore my seatbelt the whole time, because Cappy said the captain (the person who turns on the plane) wanted us to wear them. I saw lots of neat stuff out the window too! Near the end of the flight, I got to go across the aisle to Katil and Tully, and they turned my yellow blanket into a cape and I got to pretend to be SuperDecker! Cool!
Pammy had flown to Utah the day before, so she was there at the red house to meet us. Then I got to stay up and play with my toys before I went to bed! The next few days are a blur, because we did lots of stuff and saw lots of people, but here are some highlights:
* I sleep in my very own room, in my very own big boy bed. There’s a big picture of my mommy when she was a little girl, and sometimes I like and sometimes it’s scary. Mostly it’s nice. I call it the ‘picture of Mommy dressed like girl”.
* We visited with lots and lots of grownups, and a couple of big kids like me. We saw Uncle Lance (Cappy’s little brother) and Uncle Richard (Cappy’s big brother). Uncle Lance still looks a lot like Cappy to me, but I don’t get them confused anymore, especially when they’re together in the same room! We also saw my mommy’s cousins, who are really nice. One of them has two big boys like me, named Oscar and Zeke, and little girl named Maizy. I got to play with them outside - we had a big blow up pool and my fire truck and it was fun. We also saw Lizzie, who is Pammy’s cousin, and she has a dog named Ruddy who was very nice and I got to pet him on the nose and tummy. We also saw Margaret and I got to show her my room! And the neighbor is named Sandy and she is really friendly to me, and brought me my very own big boy chair that is just my size! Mommy said it was an ‘antique’, but it looked just like a chair to me! I sat in it quite proudly!
* While we were there, Cappy did lots of work on the pool called a hot tub. Tully mixed up cement for him, just like Dizzy on Bob the Builder! Cappy also got really muddy working on fixing the sprinklers. Pammy and Tully worked on the sprinklers too - sprinklers must be a lot of work! Then these men came who looked just like Bob the Builder, and they cut some branches off the willow tree and went up really high in a crane just like Lofty! They were kind of scary but very interesting if you watched them safely through the kitchen screen door!
* There was a really big storm one morning - Mommy said she thought it was a tornado, but the man on the tv said it was just a ’supercell’ (like a phone?). Anyway, the sky turned green/yellow/black, and the winds were super strong, and it rained and hailed and at one point Mommy made me go down in the basement to play. When it was over, lots of people’s trees had blown over, and later on we drove around to look at all the trees. All the grownups kept saying “Wow!”, so it must have been impressive to them. Just looked like knocked over trees to me! (You never know what’s gonna please a grownup!).
* We got to have chow mein noodles twice!
* We went shopping a LOT - but Pammy bought me some new red cars to play with! They are so cool!
* Cappy taught me a neat new game called “Smack”! Basically, you let each of the cars roll down the ramp of the toy garage, and then when they reach the bottom and bump into each other, you yell “Smack!” Good times!
* The garage at the red house in Utah has a big lawn mower, and a really cute red vacuum. Only grownups can touch them, but Pammy and Mommy would go out to the garage with me a lot so I could look at them for a long time. (One of my favorite things to do there!)
* Just like Cappy has his own mountain in Yosemite (Cappy Mountain), Pammy has her own mountains in Utah! Right in the yard, you can see all these great big mountains, and those are called the “Pammy Mountains”! I liked looking at them a lot, too.
When we flew home, I was a really good boy once again and didn’t cry or fuss once! I read my books, stayed in my seat, and fell asleep. Apparently all the other kids on the flight cried and screamed, but I couldn’t hear them. Mommy said she was very proud of me!