State Fair

It's that time of year again...State Fair! The boys are at an awesome age for going to the fair. There's only about 12 rides they're big enough to go on (yet we still dropped $50 on rides; at $3-$4 per ride, per kid, it doesn't take long), but they're old enough to not run off too much. We don't need to have a stroller with a thousand things with and no need to pack sippy cups, etc. Until next year anyway...



So, being the model parents that we are, we pulled our kids out of school for a day to go to the fair. It's about a 4-hour drive away and we took advantage of going on Ryan's day off in the middle of the week. It works out nicely as it's less crowded, which is nice if you plan on standing in line for every ride, etc.



We borrowed Grandpa Jim's truck and camper and parked right at the fair. We had about 5 hours there before it closed and the boys were asking to go back to the camper about 30 minutes before the fair was done (which is also when it started to rain).

The mini ferris wheel; Logan's telling me "I can see the WHOLE fair from up here!!!"

Carter and Daddy coming down the slide on the Indiana Jones climbing adventure.

My favorite - the roller coaster (sadly, they don't allow preggos to ride and I'm not supposed to anyway....but I sure wanted to!!!) We thought Carter might be scared that it went too fast. As it turns out, he was laughing so hard it made Ryan and I laugh too.

Getting ready to "race".

Petting the tortoise at the Rainforest Exhibit (lots of cool snakes, lizards and other things one doesn't ever see in Alaska); Carter was a maniac running from one critter to the next.

The other thing we do when we go to the fair is take the boys to Toys R Us (we also do this over spring break). The boys save their allowances for the few months before hand and usually have about $25 to work with. However, this year they had leftover birthday money plus some other money that had been given to them, so Carter had $65 and Logan had $50. We were there almost an hour and a half. Carter came home with about 8 new Thomas trains and a couple of trucks. Logan deliberated for a VERY LOOOOOONG time and finally decided on a Wii game. He was really struggling with getting a particular Wii game and nothing else or getting a less expensive Wii game and another toy. Little guy's smart enough to know he doesn't usually have this much money at one time and decided on the beloved Wii game...Mario Party 8. So, the next day I dropped Carter off at school and then Logan and I spent our 1/2 hour reading in the car before he can go into his school. But this day we didn't read books....we read the manual to Mario Party 8. Remind me if I need some reading material to help go to sleep....

So we're back into our routine now. We had a minor celebration for Daddy's birthday on Friday, but we had already given him his present so it was pretty low key. And as you can see, a couple of us needed to recover from a busy week:

Baby update:

Not much new to report here. Saw my regular OB 3 days after seeing the specialist in Anchorage. As for now, we're "on schedule as if everything's normal." Hard to believe I'm already at the point where I see him every 2 weeks. This next week we'll cross the milestone of 30 weeks, which is when my liver "got sick" with Logan. As this usually starts earlier with each pregnancy, we were relieved it didn't start until 34 weeks with Carter. My OB was a bit perplexed by that last time. So far, no signs of liver malfunction with this one. I'm really hoping to make him scratch his head this time when it doesn't occur at all! Not to mention it would be nice to not have the worry towards the end or be forced to take a baby early again. (By the way, if anyone wants to buy me an I.V. of Mountain Dew as soon as this baby gets here, I'd love you for it!!!). I look forward to drinking water by the glass again instead of by the liter. Life is good.