In chicago, everything we do is packed into the few summer weekends we have. I think those jam packed days are finally coming to an end. But it’s football season so it never really ends, does it?
This past weekend we had a b-day party at a unique b-day party location. Those late sept/oct babies will probably have parties at similar locations for most of their childhood; a pumpkin patch or some variation of it. But it’s nice to have that option. We have late Jan/early Feb b-days so our options are limited. I’m thinking some sort of jumpy house place or the dupage children’s museum for us.
Anyways, saturday was my day with E at this pumpking patch/petting zoo/carnival combination. The weather was okay; clouds mixed with sun and a little lite right.
She’s still not a big fan of treats but cake frosting is quickly becoming a favorite. As evidenced by her very blue tongue (I cleaned off the rest of her face before the picture).
We went on a hay ride with everyone. It rained all day on Friday and we had a lot of people in our party so the tractor had a difficult time dragging us through the mud. But here’s a picture of the two of us (I realized recently that I’m losing out on pictures of me and the kids because I’m the one taking the pictures. So I’m going to make it a point to ensure that someone else does some picture taking for us).
After the hay ride we visited the farm animals; chickens, cows, goats, rabbits and later on the horses, sheep, pigs and goats. As we walked towards the horses E asked, “are they going to neigh at us?”. I said yes and she stopped me from getting any closer.
We rode some carnival rides too. She saw the firetruck ride on the way in so that’s the first place we went. The girl operating the ride seemed to have zero interest in what she was doing, and I’m about to put my lil girl in her hands … yikes! Anyways, she was fine (except for the quick jerk the ride made when it started up). We then rode the dragon, and after a scary ride down the super slide we took another ride on the firetrucks with the b-day boy. That scary ride down the super slide wasn’t my idea. She really wanted to go so I went with her. We didn’t get any pictures of her face on the way down but she was probably white as a ghost. It took her a good 15 minutes to stop crying. The ride on the firetrucks again appeared to help her forget about that slide.
She appeared to overcome some of her shyness too. B came over right away, picked her up, and walked her over to the b-day boy. I was prepared for the tears but she did okay. And she did okay with G&S a little later too. This picture was her reaction soon after we got there. She cautously looked over her shoulder to make sure it was just me standing there.
But later on she let them carry her around. It’s probably a good thing she acts like this around people that seem like strangers.
So it was a few hours for just me & E. Grandma took little C during the day. I don’t mind trips with both of them but one at a time is definitely easier when I’m by myself.