Lilly and Rita/ Greenfield Village

Josie and the steam engine...Luke will like this

Josie trying to stay warm on the train

Josie and a 1914 Model T Ford



Happy Saturday to all. You are probably wondering who Lilly and Rita are? Well in the great effort to get Josie to like her canes I decided to join her imaginary world. As most of you know she has a great imagination that takes her (and who ever happens to be in ear shot) to a magical world. I decided that her new best friends should be there too...introducing Rita (her Right cane) and Lilly (her Left cane). Yes, Lilly Dunbar she is named after you. You are now apart of her magical adventure and you didn't even know it. As far as Rita goes, she was originally Rachel after Rachel MacLeod. Once we used the name with an L in it she always thought it was Lilly so we switched to Rita. We still love you lots Raych. Now that Josie has her new friends you should have seen her with them tonight. It was like a new light went off in that brain or at least the neuro pathways were firing in the right direction(most liking this one). She was using them better then I have ever seen. We hope this team work, best friend approach with be the ticket we have been looking for. Poor Przemek. He might have my head when he has to use these names. At this point he would do a jig if that helped.

Before we got wild and crazy with Lilly and Rita we spent the day at Greenfield Village. This is a village where they have recreated and also restored Henry Ford's childhood home and other things throughout his life. It was an amazing place that helped with our history portion of her home schooling. Josie was very intrigued by Noah Webster's home and all his publications. It was so neat to see a small sample of how life was lived in the early 1900's. We rode the old carousel that had all hand carved animals. We rode on the steam engine and took a lot of pictures to send to Luke. We know he would love this. We were so bundled up to stay warm that I had to keep checking if she could see out of her hood. It was freezing cold but a great adventure for the day. Hope everyone had a great Saturday. Love, Jenny and Josie, Lilly and Rita, too!!