A Day At The Fair

Today we all took a trip to our city's Freedom Festival with our friends Hollie and Riley. We all had a great time filled with sun, animals, freebies, rides and lots and lots of sugar! Here are some of the highlights...

The day started at the petting zoo. Little Man loved the experience until an overly aggressive goat snatched the cone right out of his hand. After that mommy held the food while LM played with the animals.

Next was on to the bounce house that the munchkins had all to themselves. Then they both won a prize at the game booth and picked matching pink monkeys.

The cutest part was when we stood them next to each other for a picture, Little Man turned and looked at Riley and without any coaching just leaned over and kissed her. Even sweeter was the look on her face when her mouth dropped open and she jumped up and down in delight. Those two are too much!

After that we all jumped on the barrell train and took a trip around the fair grounds. At one point I looked down and Little Man had a mouth full of leaves....not sure how that happened since we didn't go through any bushes...

After a break for snow cones the mommies took the kiddos down the giant slide. I am not sure who had more fun because we were all laughing when we hit the bottom.

We ended out the fun with a giant obstacle course (what were we thinking??)...

and cotton candy as we walked back to our cars. What a day!!!

Sneak Attack

Little man is going through a new phase that I absolutely love; I call it the “sneak attack” phase. It started about 5 days ago and involves him randomly jumping in my arms or leaning in and asking for a kiss. At first I thought some punk kid in his new MDO program had taught him how to head butt (since his kisses/hugs can be borderline violent) but since it is the first time he has ever initiated affection I won’t complain!!! Even better is that he has started asking for hugs and kisses – love it!!! Oh and he got a haircut today!

Free As A Bird

Things are really starting to heat up around here, despite the rain, but it hasn't stopped Little Man from asking to go "oussigh" (outside) 100 times a day. As soon as we get outside he wants to strip down to his birthday suit and run around the yard (this was the most G-rated picture I could find). Guess we'll have to have a little talk before he invites any friends over to play outside!

Here is a pic from the follow-up bath ... mohawks don't work so well on curly hair...

A Spot of My Own

Growing up we had an awesome vegetable garden out behind our house full of corn, radishes, peas, okra, and cantelope. I can remember many a time swinging out on the tire swing underneath our pecan tree watching my mom work in the garden. For the past few years I've been telling Trav about my desire to have a garden of my own and I usually get the sideways look that means, "Great, another bee in her bonnet". As a compromise, I promised him that I would actually GROW something from a seed before attempting an actual vegetable garden. I did cheat a bit and buy an existing tomato vine but I have been nurturing my flower bed since I planted SEEDS nearly two months ago. While the tomato vine has been yielding fruit steadily (Little Man is a big fan), the flower bed didn't begin boasting flowers until this past week. I have been "cleared" to begin preparing the soil for next spring. Yipppeeeee! Anyone have any tips???

Happy Father's Day!

Sooooo when I went in to check on Little Man last night I found him like this....

Guess he took me literally when I told him to stay in bed and just brought all of the toys into bed with him! Here is a funny one of my little monkey being a silly boy...

Caught In The Act

Even though Little Man has been sleeping in a "big boy" bed for 5 months now, he has only recently discovered that there isn't anything keeping him there after we put him to bed. For the past week or so I've gone in to check on him and found him in his new hiding place...under the table. It is really cute because he gathers up the toys that he wants, drags down the big stuffed dog and backs his way under the table. When I open the door he sits up really straight and tall so that his head is hidden up in the table so I can't see him.

Achoo!