Mr McGregor

Stephen at some point picked up that in the story of Peter Rabbit, Mr McGregor chases Peter around. So now any time that he hears the words Peter Rabbit or Mr McGregor, he raises his hands up "I'm-gonna-get-you" style, says "Rooarr!" and its time for little Mr McGregor to chase Papa around the house for a few minutes. Peter Rabbit actually gets mentioned quite often, so this happens sometimes several times in a single day.

Park Photos

After visiting Tata, we went to the park next door to play on the equipment. There is a nice view there of some fields below with some cattle and horses.

(Stairs To The "Big Mountain" In Background)

Drinking Water With Nana's Little Cup

Little Monkey #1 And Little Monkey In Training

(He Had Some Help Getting Up There)

Two other posts from this visit: Nana Swings With The Kids On The Swingset and Sarah Running Home

Tata

We visited Tata in the cemetery in Bacerac...

Spanish

Sarah started out life speaking Spanish, then after Mama and Papa were warned that she could be held back a year in school, she started to speak more English, especially when we were getting ready for a trip to visit Grandma and Grandpa. Now, 6 months later or so, she speaks mostly English. So this trip to Mexico was a good chance for her to be fully immersed in Spanish again so it will stay strong.

The funny part is that she is now speaking with a certain Mexican intonation where the tone goes up at the end of phrases instead of down. It sounds kind of silly, sort of like a protesting Speedy Gonzalez.

Sarah: Ayy, Mamaaa? No me gustaaa? Ayy, noooo?

Number Wan

Sarah has a funny thing she says sometimes that she has picked up from Mama. When she is arguing a point, she will say something like:

Look, look. Number two, you need to obey me. Number three, I'm so big!

(Number this or that, not necessarily in order or coherent, but usually pretty funny!)

She also likes to argue things on the point that she is so big, and that Mama and Papa need to obey Sawah or Sawah will give them pow-pow.

Sarah and Nana

Sarah had a bit of a bumpy relationship with Nana. She preferred to go spend time with her aunts and uncles rather than spend much with Nana. It probably has something to do with Nana correcting her and the other people not.

Nana told me the following story:

Tu suegro me decia, Elvia, si disciplinas a los ninos, no te van a querer. Si les das todo lo que quieren, te van a querer. Y asi fue, el no les pegaba, y yo si. Y todos me dicen, mi papa fue bueno conmigo, pero mi mama no. Pero ves, todos, todos crecieron derechitos, gracias a mi Tata Dios.

(Your father-in-law used to say to me, Elvia, if you discipline the kids, they are not going to like you. If you give them whatever they want, they'll love you. And it was like that, he didn't hit them, and I did. And they all tell me, my dad was good to me, but not my mom. But look, each and every one of them all grew up honest, thanks to my Grandpappy God.)

Time

After visiting Mexico for 2+ weeks, it really seems like we were hardly there any time at all, and yet it seems like we were away from home for a really long time.