Down on the Farm

The Sweetwater Valley Dairy Farm, that is. Allister's Nanny and Pops Lowery and Cousin Maya were in East TN this last weekend, so we spent about a day and a half with them in Cleveland. It wouldn't have been complete with out a tour of a nearby dairy farm. My 7 year-old niece, immediately declared it "stinky" but we had a good time anyway--and bought some cheese and stuff. Maya was awesome with Allister, the ultimate big sis (she's got 2 little bros). When recalling our trip today, I reminded Allister how kind Maya was to read her stories, share her princess dolls, and then Allister said, "and gum!". Yes, Maya also shared her fruit stripes gum with her little cousin :)

Happy Birthday to Allison

Last week we had the Davises over to celebrate Allison's 32nd b-day. Allister was more than helpful in consuming the cupcakes.

Cochran Mill Park

Per our friend, William's recommendation, Allister and I visited this park about 40 miles outside of Atlanta. The nature center was awesome, but I'm afraid that I have somehow already instilled my deathly fear of snakes to Allister. They had an ENTIRE reptile room there, complete with a Burmese Python, a green tree snake, a small alligator in an open terrarium and lots, lots more--oh, and one friendly snake they labeled "Mr. Squeeze". Maybe my fear isn't completely unfounded.
We said hello to the birds of prey in the cages outside, fed the fish, geese and turtles in the small pond behind the nature center and took the short 1/2 mile hike to a nice little waterfall. Allister wasn't much up for the trip back, so I had to carry her back to the car.
Oh, and one more for the memory book: Allister stuffing her onesie full of rocks on the hike. Could be why she was so tired on the return trip...