Brianna’s Visit to Hillsville, VA – Pt. 1

Starting on June 7, our granddaughter, Brianna, began her stay with us for a while…We knew that she would stay until the 4th weekend in July but we are not sure how much longer after that…She will be going home the third weekend of July for a week and her sister, Kayla, will stay with us for 4 days before we head to WV to take Kayla home for her b’day weekend but that will be another story later on…

So far Brianna has been doing well away from home…She says that she misses her sisters but that she don’t want to go home…Brianna talks to her mommy, daddy and sisters every so often and she is happy with  that…Brianna helps out in the crafts room, helps with BINGO and several other things…She’s a great big help…Brianna has the run of the office/store area, the play room area, the cafe area and the game room area…She knows where she can go and where she can’t go…She loves to go to the Comfy Room (play room) and stay in there for a while…Brianna knows that when she is done playing in the Comfy Room that she comes straight back to the crafts room…The ladies in the office/cafe get a big kick out of her and can’t believe how smart she is…

Brianna helps out at the rv too…Sundays are my cleaning days… Brianna likes to dust with the swiffer duster and does a pretty good job…Right now we are going to the laundry mat here at the campground because our washer’s transmission went up…Brianna helps with putting the laundry in the bottom dryers and folding up some of her clothes…She really likes riding the one and only rolling clothes basket like you see at the big laundry mats…She really would like to push the quarters in to start the washers but I am afraid that she won’t push the slots in all the way and the washer won’t start…

Brianna has been something else…She has grown up some since we last had her in winter of 2007/2008 when we had her for 4 months at the age of 27 months…She has her own little eating table and uses a step stool as a seat to her table…Brianna has a Tinkerbell folding chair and some of her toys…Not many and really she don’t play with many toys…She’s funny and loves to tell stories…She likes to pretend to bake pizzas and french fries and serve them to you…Brianna wakes up in a pleasant mode and loves to sit on my lap first thing…We hug and kiss and I rub her back which she loves..She really likes her back to be scratched…Her Poppy had recorded a movie from the tv called Peter Pan, not the cartoon…It stars a young kid, Jeremy Sumpter (or something close to the name) as Peter Pan…She has watched that movie over and over even with commercials…Commercials is one thing that she really don’t understand…Bri always asks if the movie is coming back on and I explain about the commercials…So I had ordered this particular movie from Netflix for her to watch without commercials…Then a lady who works in the crafts room with me, Alice, gave Bri her Alice in Wonderland dvd and she has watched that a lot too…I’ve been really surprised…

During the week, Tuesday through Saturday, Brianna is with me for all my working hours…Brianna has painted a castle suncatcher for me, painted a dog and a cat for her parents…She does go back and forth between the crafts room and the Play Room during the day…Recently, a portable dvd player was bought for use in the crafts room to help keep her busy…So far she only has watched 2 movies all the time…Brianna likes to help out with handing out the paint brushes, taking the small container of water to the table or handing out the newspaper and paper towel to the guest…Brianna is a great help…I did let her use fabric markers and color a Lake Ridge RV Resort pillow case…It was painted very interestingly…

Brianna has the ladies in the cafe wrapped around her little finger..Whenever we are near the cafe, the ladies give her a small scoop of ice cream or some soda…The ladies, Lisa & Sue, get the biggest kick out of her…She just knows what she wants and lets them know it…The campground has another worker, Jackie, who runs the Karoake and does other stuff…Well, Jackie walked in to the cafe one day and leaned down to talk to Brianna and to get a hug…Brianna looked at her and waved her hand near her mouth and asked Jackie if she had brushed her teeth….It was embarrassing and cute all at the same time…but Jackie said that it didn’t upset her…Brianna just says the darnest things…In the cafe/game room areas, there is a room called the Spider Room…Only because the Halloween stuff use to be put in that room and there was also a very big spider that was used for Halloween decorating…But now Brianna knows how to use my key to the room, turn the key and get in to the room…She learned that in the 2 times that I had to go between the crafts room to the laundry room…It is called the “back way” to the cafe/laundry room…

I don’t have many pictures yet but in time I will have plenty…While she has been with us, I’ve done some clothes shopping for her…I’ve come to find out that Brianna likes to wear dresses…Now she has 4 new dresses, a few skort sets and  light blue skort…She also likes to wear her Princess Aurora flip flops…Crocs are another of her favorite shoes…She use to own a pair of Pirates of the Caribbean crocs but as time goes by, she out grew them and now her little sister can wear them…Brianna likes to ride her bike….It’s a bit tough on the gravel but she does ride it around away from the rv but then she walks the bike back..Doesn’t make sense but oh well….

Another fun thing that Brianna loved to do was go Golf Cart riding… Every morning and every evening she had to get in her golf cart rides….Brianna loved to pick flowers and bring them back to me to put in a glass…Some flowers were very pretty and others were not so pretty but the ones she would fine would be gorgeous…She also liked to pick red and black berries…Now these berries you couldn’t eat…Red berries were bitter and the black berries weren’t sweet enough…Brianna saw chipmunks and deer…and horses…and hummingbirds…

Another favorite thing she liked to do was go to the pool…We would pick up the swimmies for her arms in the spider room and off to the pool we would go..Her poppy would take his camera to take pictures….We mostly spent our time in the kiddie pool…She finally decided to go down the slide…She had a blast…She went down both sides of the slide..The fast side and the “race car” side, which she called it…She learned on her own to come down on her tummy, then with her feet first laying on her tummy….One time she actually scraped the side of her face coming down the race care side but then she went right back up to the slide and came down again…Bri was getting a good tan…

Her trip down here at Lake Ridge RV Resort ended when her mommy, daddy, and sisters came down the 3rd weekend in July…The weekend of the 18th…On Monday July 20, she had to go home…Brianna was not a happy camper but it was only fair that her sister, Kayla, get to stay for a few days before we drove up to WV…I will be adding pictures as soon as my laptop has enough memory…We had a blast with her being here and we look forward to another time when she can stay with us…Which might be in September, late September until mid to end of October, depending on when Brandi wants to come get her…Kayla will be in school so we won’t be able to get her now until the summer time of 2010…