Grandma's Visit

Well, we aren't done with the visit yet, as tomorrow I think we will be headed to the Pumpkin Patch, but so far we have had a lot of fun with Grandma's visit. Thursday was raining so we headed down to the Marbles Museum and met a friend. Today after preschool, we went to the NC State Fair and ate and rode our way though the whole place, a couple times. Mom was keen on finding the latest NC State Fair food feature, chocolate covered bacon. Alas amongst the many food vendors, we never did spot it. James couldn't make it today as he was busily working away but Mom Evan and Drew and I packed many things in between all of us, including corn dogs, hot dogs, cinnamon roll, onion rings, ice cream, caramel apples and candy apples.

First I will bring you a few fun things form the beginning of the week and those were the boys learning the reaction they get when they make faces at the dinner table.



And then Evan makes a pretty good face too



Then we have our little Hulk. Don't make him mad, or he will start painting himself green!!!



This is down at Marbles Childrens' museum where they can explore and interact with everything in the place. A lot of fun.

Stage Hands:


Pirate captain:


Then Evan led us on a safari, mining treasure and Drew delivered some sort of treasure packages.



We talked about, proportionally, what the world would be like to be on if tow gigantic little boys came along to play with it and spun it around. We decided that we would flatten or fly of the earth just like that.



The boys then cooperated, impressively so, to rebuild an igloo.



Our next stop on Friday after noon, at the NC State Fair, was the railroad where Evan was insistent on being the engineer. He had to have the front car, and he got it, luckily, after another little boy changed his mind. Drew climbed right up in.



Next, the boys wanted to ride the dump trucks, and they did, Drew with abandon, and Evan with precaution.



By some twist in the cautious winds we were able to convince, then provoke, then force Evan up onto a Pony ride, all the while with my reminders that Grandma paid FIVE BUCKS for this ride and he is getting on the pony! I asked him which pony he wanted on and Evan yelled, "Nobody Pony!' No such luck. I chose Creamy pony. Evan sat up there afraid, and white lipped, but towards the end he relaxed a but as he realized the pony wasn't going much of anywhere but that circuitous route.



Evan was done after that because he had tried too many things, so Drew, while he was on inch under the required height, was allowed come on with me by the graces of a kind carnie. He loved it, yelling UP and DOWN as many times as you can imagine. Drew loved the view as well. A couple who was sat across from us I am sure enjoyed it too as they were young kids looking for some time alone. wink wink. But the girl was kind enough to take a very nice picture of Drew and me.



We stopped by to see all the bunny contest winners and to get our monthly required cute over load of bouncy bunny lips and walked down the aisles admiring all the fluffy bunnys. The boys were more fascinated with the pellets under the cages.



Then the boys enjoyed some Candy Apple for the first time. It started like this, and it ended up with them looking like enraged and starving vampire spawn rudely awakened from their nightly feast.



And lastly, another Barrel Monster Sighting