On our own

Paul left for France after an eventful day yesterday. We dropped him off at Google, then visited him there at lunch, eating all sorts of yammy food. He worked for a couple of hours and then we picked him up again and took him to the airport. It was sad to say goodbye, knowing that we won't see him for a whole week. But we are trying to be cheerful and fill our days with a fun things to do to distract us.
This morning, on Saturday, we woke up, got dressed and picked berries at the local ranch. I thought it was quite exciting and hoped that Lydia would get into it. She did get into eating blackberries out of the bucket I was picking them in, but it was hard to get her to want to pick herself. More than anything, Lydia wanted to see horses that we passed by as we pulled into the ranch's parking lot. I picked quite a few berries in our little bucket and as I was paying for them, Lydia was eating them with the biggest grin on her face. Some people, seeing her face and clothes smudged with berry juice said that she should be the poster child for this ranch. On our way out, we did go see and even petted the horses. Lydia was yelling "Bye-bye, horsie" almost all the way home.
Before lunch we came out to the playground. As Lydia was running around, I decided to call Paul and see how he enjoyed seeing his friends at Justin's wedding. We talked for a while, then I let Lydia hold the phone. She was really trilled to talk on the phone like a big girl. She even told Paul was she was doing, like "oukide, "boat", which meant that we were outside and she was playing in a boat. It was so fun for me to see her trying to communicate what she was doing. Finally, Paul had to tell her bye-bye and hang up, because she would not give the up the phone.