a day at the fair:
the kids loved the corn-boxes!
what is there to say? the kids had fun. cris and i had fun. we saw lots of old friends. had maple ice cream and maple cotton candy. cooled down with rainbow ice from the same husband and wife that was serving it 20 years ago when i was a kid. enjoyed the kids enjoying the rides. and we all slept really well when we got home!
we spent sunday at aunt jessie and uncle mark’s farm. it’s nothing commercial…just a few animals to feed their own family. a couple of cousins were there, and the kids had a blast. i love when they can play with their cousins!
isabelle and cousin k spent most of their time on the rope swing.
the boys spent most of their time playing the the barn. there were pigs and piglets to inspect, cows to feed hay and grain. hay stacks to move, sawdust to shovel and move, and who knows what else!
we ended the day with an afternoon picnic. the kids were so hungry that they ate ALL of the food. i didn’t even take my snack, and splitting it amongst the 4 kids, they devoured my portion as well!
today, when we were rained out of our plans, the kids and i decided to visit the hardware store. more exciting to wyatt than “plain old” craft supplies, he thrives in aisle after aisle of drawers filled with nuts, bolts, nails, screws, hooks and eyes, wire, and so forth. while browsing the endless selection of supplies, we decided on three projects: a ladder, a dollhouse/tree-house and a train.
once home, we raided two great wood sources: cris’s leftovers from all of his man projects and the wood pile. we found pre-finished floor boards, hemlock, pine and maple in his stash and a few small logs in the wood-bin. wyatt got his tool box from the basement, and we were set to build! while we didn’t get to the train today, we did finish a small ladder for dolls, as well as this house. once completed, wyatt decided we should nail down the crane he just built from a thrift store kit. so much better than the dollhouse we bought, and there’s still room to add more to it!
now, back to cleaning and unpacking from our weekend away! more on that later this week…