We’ve talked quite a bit about compound words during school. How you take two words and smash them together to make a new word. “Star” and “fish” become “starfish”. Cara has even caught on, although sometimes she makes up her own.

After spending an early evening in the French Quarter, New Orleans eating Beignets (ben-ya) and wandering around to see the architecture we were driving home in the car.

Overhead in the backseat:

Cara: Hmmmm…. You take a “been” (left hand out) and a “yah” (right hand out) and smash them together (claps her hands) to get Beignet!

And then we all laughed.

This week was a bit of a whirlwind. Gulf Island Seashore National Park, Fort Picken and Geromino’s “hotel” room, meeting new friends at a random LDS ward and being invited over for dinner, the coolest Airstream food trucks, The National Naval Aviation Museum, New Orleans, seafood, the Tabasco Sauce Factory, and finally on to Houston where we will be spending the holidays.

How was your week?