Rosalind and I joined a CSA for the summer at Jubilee Farm. Every Tuesday we drive down there and pick up a load of produce, harvesting a portion of it. It has been a super fun thing to do, for both of us, and very satisfying! The first few weeks, Rosalind wasn’t mobile at all. Then she started crawling around in the dirt. The farm is where she learned to stand, and now she runs all over the place, splashing around in puddles, picking berries or green beans and eating them, getting extremely dirty and loving her day of being a country girl.

I think the farm experience today must have inspired the stroke of genius she had tonight. She has an exersaucer with a button that plays a bunch of short songs in random order. One of them is Old MacDonald. Tonight, when it started playing, right on cue she sang “ee-eye-ee-eye-oh”. Ok, it was really more like oh-ee-oh-yee, but definitely intentional. Nathan and I were blown over. I don’t know how she remembered since it’s not even a song we sing to her often. It’s her first “word” other than mama! She continued to sing the chorus on demand all evening whenever we started the song.

We took a video; I will post it here when I get it downloaded. In the meantime here’s an old farm picture.

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