Every Sunday night we have a family carpet picnic and watch a movie that is suitable for the whole family. Carpet picnics are something that Jay and I have done since we've been married. We spread a quilt out on the floor of the living room, order a pizza, and have a nice picnic in the comfort of our own home. Now that we are parents we ensure that the food is child friendly so we've taken to ordering pizza. This evening's movie was "Toy Story" and we ordered pizza from The Pizza Shoppe. Taylor now prays at all of our meals and this evening she prayed and said "Thank you Jesus for the pizza and for the carpet picnic Amen". It was too cute!!!
I guess that she wasn't too impressed with "Toy Story" because she requested that we watch Shrek instead. I think that she really likes the movies with alot of music. Although last week we tried "Marry Poppins" and she wasn't really into it. The week before it was "Chicken Little" and she LOVED it! She wasn't that keen on "Charlotte's Web" when I took her to the free movie morning at the theatre to see it. Only two and she can already tell you what she likes and what she doesn't like.
We were getting out of the car and Taylor wouldn't let me help her out of the car. She told me "I do it myself". She's so very independent!
Bella is growing like a weed and now wants to participate in family movie night & carpet picnic. She sat in my lap while we were eating and curled up in her daddy's lap after we were done eating to watch the movie. She stared at Taylor the vast majority of the time just smiling away. She so loves her big sister. She giggled at her daddy today and then later on she giggled at Taylor. She's a happy baby!
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Monday, August 20, 2007
American Idol at the MO State Fair
We took the girls to the Missouri State Fair on Saturday (August 18th, Bella's 2 month birthday!) where the American Idols were performing. It was INSANELY hot, but neither of the children kicked up a fuss about the heat. We started the day with funnel cake (which Taylor didn't like) and the barns. In the barn we met Santa Claus. To answer the age old question "What does Santa do for the rest of the year?"...he raises cows. Although to do business he goes by the alias Bob Barley. He let Taylor pet one of his cows and a bull. She loved it and she loved talking to him. He showed us pictures of some of the children he's met over the years. That was a great experience!
We went to the kids' barn where Taylor got to see some chicks, puppies, kittens, ducks, more cows, a horse, sheep, pigs, and (her personal favorite) a donkey. She said it was Donkey from Shrek. The sheep was pretty darn funny too. I didn't know that when a sheep said "baa" that it sticks it's tongue out as far as it will go to say it. Taylor and I laughed hysterically at the poor sheep.
We had dinner at The Poultry Foundation restaurant where I had smoked turkey drumsticks. Yum! Taylor had chicken nuggets and Jay had a chicken sandwhich. It was a crazy cheap meal for the fair and an enormous amount of food.
After we ate we went down to the Midway to let Taylor ride some rides. Our child is an adrenaline junky! She rode the carosel first and was hooked. She then road the train, the space ships, the flying puppies, the motorcycles, and the cars. She wanted to ride the ferris wheel, but for some reason it was closed.
We went to the American Idol concert in the grandstand and Taylor had a fantastic time dancing the night away. It was a GREAT concert. All of the songs were popular songs that you could sing along to and from where there are 10 of them performing the show was action packed and non-stop. Saying that, they did have an intermission to give the back up singers a break. But it was a whoppin' good show.
We were back at the Midway for Taylor to give it a second go at 11PM. We didn't get home until 2AM and both girls were sound asleep. In fact, the whole family slept in until 10AM that morning. We had such a fantastic day! This is what being a parent is all about...making these so very special memories.
We went to the kids' barn where Taylor got to see some chicks, puppies, kittens, ducks, more cows, a horse, sheep, pigs, and (her personal favorite) a donkey. She said it was Donkey from Shrek. The sheep was pretty darn funny too. I didn't know that when a sheep said "baa" that it sticks it's tongue out as far as it will go to say it. Taylor and I laughed hysterically at the poor sheep.
We had dinner at The Poultry Foundation restaurant where I had smoked turkey drumsticks. Yum! Taylor had chicken nuggets and Jay had a chicken sandwhich. It was a crazy cheap meal for the fair and an enormous amount of food.
After we ate we went down to the Midway to let Taylor ride some rides. Our child is an adrenaline junky! She rode the carosel first and was hooked. She then road the train, the space ships, the flying puppies, the motorcycles, and the cars. She wanted to ride the ferris wheel, but for some reason it was closed.
We went to the American Idol concert in the grandstand and Taylor had a fantastic time dancing the night away. It was a GREAT concert. All of the songs were popular songs that you could sing along to and from where there are 10 of them performing the show was action packed and non-stop. Saying that, they did have an intermission to give the back up singers a break. But it was a whoppin' good show.
We were back at the Midway for Taylor to give it a second go at 11PM. We didn't get home until 2AM and both girls were sound asleep. In fact, the whole family slept in until 10AM that morning. We had such a fantastic day! This is what being a parent is all about...making these so very special memories.
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