Georgie and Georgiana-Henry.

You probably know that our Georgiana is named after her great-grandmother, Georgiana Wagner. And part of the reason for our trip up north was so that the two Georgianas could meet while the little one was still little.

Great Grandma was very happy to meet her namesake.

On our visit, we learned that great grandma's father, James Hejl, was expecting a boy for his first child. And he was going to name him George. When he received a daughter instead, they kept George and tacked on Anna, after great grandma's mother Anna.

Mama remembers that Grandpa Wagner used to call Grandma "George" and so we call our baby George, too. Grandma's parents immigrated from (then) Czechoslovakia and Grandma taught us that Georgiana is "Jirina" in Czech. The pronunciation for that is roughly "Ya-jin-na." And we can call her "Jirinka" for a pet name.

Grandma showed us her garden, which she called modest, but beat mama's hands down and was easily 10 times the size. Mama snagged some ground cherries in the hopes of propagating them down south. To this day, Grandma is the only one we know that grows them.

Our friend, Miss Elizabeth, was also in town and help Juner maneuver the field with her pretty dress on and dolly in tow.

June eventually got down to the business of picking broccoli.

All three Turner great grandkids pose with their great grandma. Thanks for having us!

Grandma and Grandpa Seibert's house- June.

We made it up to Ney and we were TIRED. We didn't get to sleep until after midnight on Thursday and were up before 7am. And only Henry took a nap on the ride to Grandma's. I spent my time sitting beside him yelling "Henry! Wake up!"

Poor Georgie had a rough week. She spent 2 days crying and not sleeping. On Wednesday night, she had a fever (just around 100). Then Thursday morning, she had 6 dirty diapers and slept 5 hours straight in the car. Phew.

The Seibert kids were waiting for us when we got to Ney. Henry and Oliver got straight to work with the toy construction equipment. They loaded stones with the excavator into the dump trucks and hauled them over to the pad to build a new road. Too bad Grandpa undid their work every night with the broom.

Tessa amped up the cute.

And Natalie showed off her hula hooping skills.

Aunt Elizabeth was visiting her sister in South Carolina, so Uncle Kevin decided to bring the kids over to spend the night in the trailer. Grams read everyone a bedtime story before we sent the Seiberts outside.

Everyone wanted a turn holding the new baby.

Tessa's not the baby anymore!

Mama's current favorite- Oliver- took a minute away from causing trouble to squeeze the newest cousin.

Uncle Kevin walked in to find mama feeding Tessa big spoonfuls of whipped cream. So he retaliated by loading George up with candy.

On Saturday, we had a party for the Seibert aunts and uncles. Oliver and Henry got back to moving stones.

And Georgie was introduced to Aunt Chris. Check out the bare arms and bare legs! We set a record for hot weather- 89 degrees! Mama was mad that she left the south and couldn't escape the heat.

Speaking of heat, the fire pit was awfully hot, so all the kids had to cover their eyes.

Tessa continued to rock her mullet.

Grandpa got out the tractor for hay rides and everyone got a turn driving.

Henry took his job very seriously.

Georgie met her Great Grandma Seibert.

And exchanged smiles.

Tessa and I took a wagon ride with our second cousin Ava.

Aunt Laurie got to squeeze Georgiana. Are you noticing the trend that the baby never touched the ground?

We just couldn't stop taking pictures of Tessa!

Papa showed us his hula hooping.

Have you noticed a trend in my clothing lately? I've worn this chicken frock 3 days in a row. "I wear my chicken dress!"

Natalie defies the odds by lifting up a 15 month old who probably weighs more than she does.

And how could we end the night without another picture of Tessa? How's that s'more, sweet girl?

Road trippin'- June.

On Thursday, we packed up the van and headed up north for a little vacation.

First stop- Cincinnati. Our friends Mister Paul and Miss Susan just moved up there from North Carolina in pursuit of higher education.

Mister Paul was excited to meet baby Georgie for the first time.

And to supply her with her first Hudy beer. That's the Cincinnati equivalent of Schlitz. DELIGHT!

We were really excited to find out that Aunt Katie was going to be at the Ikea with Sadie and our new cousin Dash! We hightailed it over. (After a wonderful midwestern breakfast buffet at the Big Boy. They had chicken nuggets!!!)

We were so excited to meet our new cousin. He's teensy tiny. And he's only 11 days younger than Georgie. But she was over a week late and he was a couple weeks early (the nerve!), so really we're about 5 weeks apart. Hopefully he wakes up the next time we see him.

My journal-Henry.

At school, we have journals in which to draw pictures and practice writing letters. Natalie carries around a little notebook and write the words she knows. I've been taking this all in and it dawned on me that I could write things on my own too.

When the Seibert party started to wind down, papa took us inside for baths so mama could stay out and talk with the grown-ups. (Thanks, papa) After baths, I picked up the magna doodle and got to work. With all the Dick and Jane I've been reading, I knew how to spell most of the words. And I sounded out the rest. I was pretty pleased with myself.

Since I still need some practice with my handwriting, my "journal" says:

Henry and June

Henry reeds Dick and Jane

Henry likes to reed

(We can't figure out why Blogger keeps turning this picture, but gave up trying to fix it after reloading it 10 times. Hopefully you can read it.)

Denver Downs- Henry.

Last Tuesday, the Clemson MOMS club rented out Denver Downs, the local corn maze and pumpkin patch.

But this was no ordinary pumpkin patch- it was awesome! They had a mini hay bale maze that June loved.

A barrel train that June refused to leave.

An awesome pulley system that took goat food up the "bridge" where the goats could eat it.

I stayed here for a long time.

It was a wonderful day, though a little warm for mama. Seriously, when is it going to cool down? It was well over 80 degrees and papa lost the sweatshirt soon after this picture was taken. Doesn't this look like a calendar shot?

We played with these pumps that floated ducks to the next barrel.

Then we took a hay ride out to the pumpkin field and picked out pumpkins. Check out Juner's tiny pumpkin.

Here's a good close-up of Junie's round teeth.

Hey mama, get a hair cut!

Papa couldn't help but try his hand at football.

While Junie rode a steer.

We took another ride on the barrel cows and luckily we were at the end of the line, so June could stay on for another ride.

In the shelter house were huge stacks of hay and hanging horsie tire swings.

Of course, I had to have a turn of my own.

While June stayed to swing on the horsie, mama and I ventured into the big corn maze. I wasn't too interested in it until I found out that the map they gave us had points we were supposed to find in the field. Then I had a great time trying to find them.

Here's what the field looked like from the air. We spent a lot of time up in that moon.

Before we left, we discovered the sand boxes filled with corn.

Serious fun throwing corn all over. Mama found hard kernels of corn around the house for days.