Hi Abigail, it’s Trekker! Mommy and I have been in Arkansas. This is yet another state that we will visit together sometime. It does not sound like it is spelled (Ark-Kansas), you say it “Arkansaw.” This is one of the many confusing words in the English language that you will learn. I know, you are focused on “Dada” and “Momma” right now. We rode on another plane (like I explained before when we went to the place called New York with all of the lights and sounds). When the plane landed is seemed like we were landing in a field, much like the farms we pass when we go to school. They had cows and hay (that actually looked like big bran muffins from the sky). We are here visiting the Wal-Mart headquarters (meaning “main place” like your “main place” at school where you play with Miss Nancy, Miss Tiesha and your friends most of the day). Wal-Mart is the world’s largest retailer and one of your favorite places to go. You would never know that people even live in the area by the looks of the farms and cows when you fly into this place. But, as you know from our drives to school, just a around a simple turn can be something totally different. We mainly spent time in buildings, but we did visit a Wal-Mart and a Target store just like you do with Mommy (although we did not buy any fun books or clothes or toys). The first night we went to dinner at a restaurant on top of a big hill and went for ice cream. You know how much Mommy loves ice cream! Mommy does not have to pump during the day anymore since you are weaning so it was easier this trip. She just “pumped and dumped” at night and morning to make sure she has enough supply for you when she comes home.

She was telling me how she really misses you when she is gone and looks forward to hearing from Daddy about your day and what you are doing at night. She misses holding you, hearing you laugh and giggle, singing and clapping with you (we know how you love to clap!). She really likes playing with you on the floor, following you around as you crawl and calling you from across the room so she can watch you zoom right over! Oh what fun she has with you!

The next day on our trip we went to another meeting (a place and time when people sit around tables and talk a lot and look at small print on paper and talk some more). We were preparing for a meeting with the important person at Wal-Mart. This is not like when you and Mommy have to meet with the people at the check-out line or the return line at Wal-Mart. This person does not sit at a Wal-Mart store but an office like the one that Daddy and Mommy go to every day. The meeting with the important person at Wal-Mart went pretty well and we went back to another building to “meet” (sit and talk) again. After all of that sitting and talking, everyone was ready to drink and eat! You would not think that so little activity would cause such hunger and thirst, but it does. Mommy loves to eat the “local” food so they went to a barbeque restaurant that reminded Mommy of our favorite restaurant in Dayton called “Cold Beer & Cheeseburger” (that specializes, as you might expect, in cold beer and cheeseburgers). This restaurant was named “Whole Hog” and although the name is not as obvious as “CB&C,” they make lots of barbeque pork. That night after dinner we did not get ice cream and Mommy was so tired that after she pumped she went straight to bed!

The next morning we had to get up at 4:45 am. If you were getting up in Ohio it would have been 5:45 am but this is another complicated explanation and it still felt really early. We made it to the airport with time to spare, were in line to get on the plane and found out that the bathroom did not work so everyone had to go back to the waiting area (this area speaks for itself). We only had to wait an hour for someone to come out and confirm that indeed, the bathroom did not work and we should not use it on our trip home. You don’t have to worry about this yet because you have your diapers, but this could be a problem for people without diapers on a long flight. Luckily, the flight was only one hour!

Mommy rushed back to work for meetings the rest of the day. She wanted to get them done so she could come home and see you! We are really excited that we all get to go on a trip together next week! Yeah, our first vacation on a plane together to Colorado.