Coming to America

Wow…I have been in Virginia for 16 days and it has been unbelievable!  You can’t imagine the things and the people that I have seen.

 

It all started when Mommy

 

 and Daddy

 buckled me into a car seat and put me in a tube filled with lots of other people for 9 hours!!

It was only later that I learned it was called an airplane.

The car seat was not comfortable and I was unable to sleep BUT I heard my Mommy say “you are being so good” as we left the plane.  At the curb I saw that white haired women who keeps smiling and talking. They called her “Sussy”

Sussy drove a huge truck and after installing that dreaded car seat, we were off to my Mommy’s house.  It was sunny, I was happy, Mommy was happy and Daddy even got to drive the truck…We drove and drove…and drove! It was Easter weekend and everyone was going home to be with their families, just like us. I cried and cried…I was tired of that seat, Mommy was tired of my crying…we stopped and I had a snack and Mommy had some Combos…We climbed back in the car and drove and drove some more and arrived home after 8 hours to see a really tall man, my Uncle Stephen, his wife Margot and an older man who has MY SAME NAME!!!(Papa Jack)…Mommy and Daddy were so happy to be home.  Mommy fed me and put me in a cage in a very dark room with a face on the ceiling

 

…It made me stop nursing, it was so….. interesting.

Mommy and Daddy slept in my room…we had a sound machine and it was very dark.  In the room was a window that was covered with this….do you know what this is and why anyone would have this in 2012?

 

Every morning when I woke up my Mommy (or Daddy) brought me downstairs to “play” with Sussy. They were tired and they wanted to go back to sleep. Sussy was fun but she was always trying to make me do things I didn’t know I could do… BUT….

Now I can:

Hold a ball.

Grab a ring.

Almost roll over,

Sit in a Bumbo

 

Look in a mirror and spin an attached ball

Give a high pitched squeal

Lift my head..

    

Pull Sussy’s hair and

 Best of all I can suck my thumb and toes…and they are delicious.

 

 

Every day different people came to see me and play with me…sometimes we drove to places and saw even more people.  All of my Aunts and Uncles came home to see me. Everyone wanted to play with me.  It was lots of fun.  On Easter Day we went to my great Aunt Patti’s house and there were almost as many people there as on the airplane! Another night we went out to dinner with my Grump Grump and Helena…Today I am going to my Grandma Sue-sue’s and my cousin Parker will be there. Mommy and Daddy and more new people will hold me and play with me.

 

Tuesday we leave to return to London. Mommy cries when people leave her. I think she will cry when we need to leave these people but I will give her one of my smiles, maybe a squeal or two and Daddy will comfort her.   He will say…”In a week Charles, Katherine and Charlie are coming” and she will smile.

 

Love,

jack (with a little help from Sussy)