Zoo Boo and Other Fun Stuff

My friends, Naomi and Fay (along with their Mommy, Aunt Sarah), were in town this week.  And we had lots and lots of fun together.

On Friday evening, we met up and walked over to the zoo together, in full Halloween costumes.  It was Zoo Boo!  Most of the animals were inside for the night, but we did get to see the farm animals.  That didn't matter much, though, because the zoo was all decorated for Halloween.

In fact, we had seen the decorations last week in the day when we took Grandaddy to the zoo.  But it was even cooler at night, with all the spooky lights.  There were skeletons and spiders and graveyards and ghosts and ghouls and fog and other fun stuff.  And there were trick-or-treat stations, although I didn't much care about them after the first couple.

Today, before they left to head back to North Carolina, we met up with Naomi and Fay at the Children's Museum.  I really liked being in the back of the cop car, but Mommy said that had better be the only cop car I find myself in.  I colored a picture for Daddy, played with the airplanes, and had fun with Fay in the toddler area.  I can't wait to go back!

Pictures from both trips will be forthcoming.

Busy Busy

So, it has been quite a while since my last post and everyone has been clamoring for an update.

Well, update, we are really busy around here.  My apologies.

A few highlights of things you missed:

• a wonderful Shell concert by The Prodigals, sponsored by our church and the first attended by Grandmommy and Grandaddy,
• half a weekend without Daddy, as he left me and Mommy to go to Pickwick with some guys,
• lots of fun with my friend Michael and our Mommies, since our Daddies were together,
• the Pink Palace Arts & Crafts Fair with Aunt Cathy (there was a petting zoo and I got a rocking giraffe!),
• a cheesy Shell concert for kids that sounded cool (dinosaurs!) but wasn't,
• lots o' rain, intermixed with some really nice autumn days,
• one evening per week with only Daddy as Mommy leaves us to tutor other kids,
• Read for the Record with Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar,
• some finger painting,
• Pa coming to see me(!),
• and Daddy on Fall Break!

There, that should catch us up to date.

Oh, did I mention that Pa drove up from the War-Town yesterday?  Well, he did.  And I am so excited.

Fall Fun, Part One

Yesterday, we welcomed Fall with my very first trip to the fair!  You know it's Fall when the fair's in town.

The old Mid-South Fair has packed up and left Memphis for Mississippi, so we went to the Delta Fair instead.  Mommy and Grandaddy took me and we had a blast.

We (and that includes me!) ate so much junk.  Mommy said that's the main reason to go to the fair and the main reason Daddy doesn't care for the fair.  We had Pronto Pups (corn dogs) and Funnel Cakes and Cotton Candy and Fudge and, well, I can't remember what else.

I had two favorites.  One was the petting zoo.  I never did get the whole feeding-the-animals-out-my-hand thing, but that's what Mommy's for.  She fed the, while I loved on the animals.  And they enjoyed licking some of the fair food off of me, too.  The other was the life-sized Elmo.  I couldn't get enough of him.

Oh, and we ran into Edens and Mrs Carol.  Me and Edens played in a mud puddle together.

Anyway, we had lots of fun, but I was pooped afterwards.  Mommy had to give me a bath, though, to get all the dirt and grime off of me.  But I was in bed way early and slept over an hour later than usual, too.

I can't wait until next year!