Applause please

Someone finally figured out how to clap, so I think a round of applause is in order.

Rain...

Today was a rainy day. It was one of those days that begs you to stay in pajamas all day and lounge around on the couch under blankets instead of tackle things on the ever present to do list. It was a day for naps, cuddles and movie marathons or watching "froggies" (Kenley's current favorite show about the alphabet) over and over.  But it held adventure too.

During the rain this morning Kenley asked to walk so she could splash in the puddles. She knew we could take an umbrella and was more than willing to wear her swim shoes and a jacket. I figured what better activity to do on a rainy day but actually enjoy the rain. So "Why Not?" we took a walk in the rain. 


It's nice to have someone to walk with you in the rain and splash in the puddles.

Chase bub enjoyed the rain too. We opened the window for a bit and he immediately crawled over to check it out.  He even got a little upset when he couldn't go on the walk with us but he had fun staying behind with Clay. 

Weekends just "fly" by...

I don't know about you but we flew thru another weekend here at the Hotel Brockman and like every weekend, it went too fast.

Saturday we had a nice visit from my folks. We did lunch and took Kenley to get her hair cut. It was the 1st time Kenley has sat like a big girl in the chair by herself. Usually she wants to sit on my lap. This time she had some "friends" with her and they all did great sitting up in that chair.

Today the girls went to the park and Sam's while the boys stayed home. This afternoon flew by with naps and now as always it's Sunday night and time to go to bed and face another week. Hope it flys by just as fast and next weekend's fun can begin. Until then...

Fantastic Friday Fair Food Fun

Say that 5 times fast! Friday, Clay and I took off work, drop the kids off at the sitter and went to the State Fair with my inlaws. It was a good time! We hadn't been in a few years and we mainly go for the food so we went ready to eat :)

Liz gave me a good idea that I should photo blog everything we had to eat that day. Looking back it doesn't seem like as much as you might expect but we definitely didn't leave hungry.

Technically we started the day with a bagel and some coffee from Panera and I added a banana to my breakfast. Sorry no picture here.

First item at the fair was a sample of hot dogs from Oscar Mayer. They were part of the new "select" line and very tasty. One had garlic and spices and the other had tomato, dill and something else.

We were stalking out the Wiener-mobile in hopes to get Liz a wiener whistle for Braden. Turns out you had to have your picture taken to "earn" a whistle so, of course we did.

From there we hit the Fried What? stand and I finally tried the infamous fried Snickers bar and Clay had some fried Oreos.

I preferred the Snickers.The Oreos seemed strange since they had no crunch.

Next Clay had a BBQ pork sandwich.  A little light on the sauce but it smelled good.

Instead of porking it up, I went for some standard nachos and a few spicy jalapenos. 

Then back to fried food fun. We hit up the mini donuts!

Shook things up with a Lemon Shake UP.

And wrapped up the fair with some Culler's fries with vinegar.

In non-food fair highlights, we enjoyed the beautiful day and the light crowds.

We checked out the "famous" 3 room log home made from a really really REALLY old tree.

Had an utterly fantastic time checking out the 90 year old butter cow :)

And of course checked out all of the animals. Here I just finished feeding the llama. I didn't know my MIL was taking any pictures so she actually caught me talking to it. I look  a little crazy.

ONe of the other things we did was check out the Phineas and Ferb Disney area and the Perry the Platypus Platybus. We even did an interactive and danced with Dr. Doofenshmirtz.

All in all a successful and fun trip to the fair!

Tunnel vision

Chase finally got brave enough to crawl through the tunnel tonight. I wanted a picture with him at the end but he had other plans. We love that he has taken off and just motors around with a smile on his face and drool from his chin. Yes that's drool! He has a few teeth all working thru :)

Hope everyone else is motoring around with smiles too!

Youch!

Just a few updates... Chase bub went to the doctor for his 9month check up on Friday. He weighed in at 21lbs 13.5oz and is 30inches long. Still my big bub! Little man was in good spirits until we had to mess with his little man. Apparently he had an adhesion and his skin was growing back together. The doctor had to manually pull it back and said it was like a "manual circumcision" so he would be a bit uncomfortable for a few days. I guess so..YOUCH! We also gave him a shot and pricked his finger. Really, he recovered from all of them like a champ and although a little fussy Friday he is still his cute self.  He also finally took off and put the crawling thing together :) He is now mobile an on the move. It's so cute!!!

Kenley also has been very "caring" lately. She will rock and shhh her baby penguin when she says he is upset or crying. Well this weekend she also started caring for the mommy and daddy ducks. She was taking their temps (rectally) and was careful to use some Vasoline. She even asked for a bandaid for the daddy duck at one point. I didn't pay attention to what she did with it but when we sat down for dinner, I got a good laugh.

I guess she may have thought he had a boo boo after taking his temp. YOUCH! Too funny!

In other updates, we went swimming this weekend and since it was too cold we ended up playing on the sand for the volleyball court. It was the first time Kenley would play in the sand so there may be hope for a beach vacation yet. She also asked in all seriousness if that was the beach :) It too was cute.