This past weekend we went up to visit my parents in Smithfield. CJ had a blast he got to see so many new things and he loved every min. The first night we got to go with my Dad's friend up the canyon and feed some wild turkeys. We got to see about 30 turkeys. CJ thought they were really cool and wanted to go right up to them and touch them. He didn't understand that the turkeys were wild animals and didn't know how to be around little boys. When we got back CJ took a walk with grandma and grandpa and they decided to make the leaves float down the water in the gutter. CJ loved doing that and he even thought he should go swimming in the water. He pants were all wet! After that we went to see Daddy's parents at their hotel (they came up for the weekend also) and we got to go swimming. CJ didn't like the water at first. It was really really cold. But once mommy and Uncle D were cold and done swimming CJ wanted to stay and kick his feet in the water. We pulled him away with the promise of a warm bath in the hotel room. He really liked his bath and he even blew bubbles! He doesn't like to put his mouth in the water and usually just blows the water from above but he was blowing really good bubbles. I was so proud of him.
The next day we played around the house and CJ played with playdough a lot! Granma had bought a fun factory and he liked making spaghetti, he just kept forgetting that he couldn't eat it. After dinner we decided to go to the park and play. CJ LOVED the slide!!! He would climb up the stairs crawl through a tube and climb more stairs up to Grandpa and then Grandpa would help him sit down and give him a big push (He kept getting stuck on the way down and we would have to crawl into the slide to push/pull him out) And then Grandma would catch him or pull him out at the bottom. He would squeal and run around to the stairs to do them again. He finally decided to try out the swings for a little bit and then we wanted to go see how the other playset was. We got there and it still had snow all over so CJ had a hard time walking and it was just really muddy so we decided that we would go back to the other one. As we were leaving I heard a HOOO HOOO HOOOO. I was so excited and asked my dad if it was an owl. He said that it was a great horned owl. It was really cool. My dad had told me that he has been hearing one in the evenings and I actually heard it. On our way back to the other swing set my dad started talking to it. It sounded like it was really close so I started looking in the trees. We finally figured out what tree it was coming from and looked and looked for it. Finally Daddy found it. We got to see it for a little bit and then it flew off. CJ was having so much fun looking for the owl that we didn't go back to the slide and decided we should just go home while he was distracted. And as we were walking up the the car Grandpa found the owl again. It was farther away but a lot easier to see the shadow against the blue sky. CJ was sitting on Grandpa's shoulders and they just looked at the owl for another 5 min. or so. CJ liked looking at the owl so much that when we got home he sat next to grandpa and looked at pictures of owls on the computer for an hour! The last two nights when CJ looks out the window he tells me that he can see owls in the trees outside. He even wanted me to make grandpa come down and talk to the owls. CJ had a lot of fun this weekend at my parents. He got to see so many new things and he got to be outside, his favorite place to be.
