Day 5

Day 5- Whitecourt, AB to Helena, MT

Today was the first day that it rained on our trip. So far we had beautiful weather. I remember when we drove to Alaska it rained the whole time. It has been nice to be able to enjoy the drive and the stops with out the rain and mud.

 

Axel's animals were fighting eachother and "falling off" their bikes. (pretend of course) They would break different parts of their bodies and mom would fix them. A little bit of toilet paper can do wonders with play time. I think every one of his animals had a cast by the end of today.

 Abel still doing amazing in the car for a little guy. Today he throw up every where when he was pooping. Luckily he got the poop out and had a great afternoon. Axel got a bloody nose, which was fun in the car. Kids-why do they have to be so gross! Always so kinda mess in the back seat. My car is going to need a good cleaning after this trip. (we ended up throwing out Abels car seat-just to gross and the cover doesn't come off to clean. Why they would make one like that I don't know?! At least we've had the carseat since Axel so it has had some use)

US boarders!!!

 We crossed into Montana around 3:30 pm. Yeah..we are finally in the lower 48! Montana was really beautiful. The mountains are different here. No so jagged and pointed but more of a red/maroon color. Very cool. I would love to come back some time and explore not just drive through.

Once we got in to Montana Axel looked out his window and said "hey Mom look! What is that? Take a picture." It was cows! Funny. I told him we would be seeing alot of cows now. He was very excited.

This much time in the car we got to have Axel ask lot's of funny and interesting questions. Here are a few.
*How do you get to heaven? Can you visit there?
*Where does milk come from? How does it get there and how do you get it out?
*What's a heart attack? Do you guys have good hearts?
*Funny saying- Mom this is going to blow your mind! I'm not lying, not joking and not kidding, I'm telling the truth.
Some time's I don't even know how to explain some of the thing he asks. I just get all nurse techincal on him hoping that he will loose intrest bu then he just asks more questions. He is totally in the Why phase. Axel also throw out a cup from his window today. When asked why he did that he said he just wanted to see what would happen. He was then very nervous that a police officer was going to pull dad over and he would come home with us. Axel...so curious about what will happen. After the litering situation we talked about not throwing out any thing that is man made. Then he proceded to ask about every thing in the car to see if it was man made. I know he really wanted to throw some thing else out of he car.
Abel is also starting to get more vocal. During the trip he has said- "Hi, ow (ouch), this, ma-ma, da-da and he even said cheese today! Or more eese. When I was taking his picture. So cool. He doesn't regularly using them but he does say them.