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Last year, we weren’t able to go to the NW Washington Fair in Lynden because we were busy going to Justin’s godparents’ wedding in California. That was a wonderful trip, and I think that Justin enjoyed the Fair better this year than he would have at the 5 months old he was last year.
Mostly we went for the animals. Justin LOVES animals.
Our first stop was at the cattle barn:
This little bull’s owner actually let Justin touch her cow, but needless to say, the cow wasn’t terribly impressed when Justin poked his finger in the cow’s eye and enthusiastically proclaimed, “That’s yo’ eye?!” Forgiveness was granted (I’m sure the cow promptly forgot) when we moved on to the next pen: sheep and goats!
I’m sure he’d have ridden this one if we let him… except the part where Justin kept putting his finger in the sheep’s water and making the sheep look more and more suspicious of this obsurd pink bi-ped on a leash.
Then it was off to have a bit of lunch. Justin LOVES grapes, and Poppa and Nanna brought grapes. Needless to say, the three got along nicely.
I can’t say much for the other entertainment while we were eating though. Here we are, in Lynden, WA of all places at a county fair and what’s the hour’s entertainment? Well, how ’bout an offbeat klezmer band with an improvisational hula-hoop-dancer with hot pink hair putting on a show together? Wow. How random is that?! I tell you, I never expected to watch a hot-pink-hair girl dancing in a hula-hoop to Hava Nagila anywhere, much less Lynden (the Dutch town that’s so Dutch -and therefore Reformed – that you get cited if you mow your lawn on Sunday, not to mention that it’s in the Guinness Book of World Records for greatest number of churches per capita). And yet, there we were.
Then it was off to Justin’s favorite part of the whole fair – the chicken coop!
At first we didn’t think he was enjoying it. Then I thought I heard something. I leaned over the stroller and put my ear down close to Justin. What did I hear? Very quiet repetitions of “oo OOO!”
I tried to catch it on video, but he was already on to us that we were listening so my video doesn’t catch all of his enthusiasm for it, but alas, I have some video, and to me, it’s priceless. Enjoy.
What was cool was the fact that at home we’d taught him “Cock-a-doodle Doo!”. And when he copied us he’d say, “Cah-doo-doo”. But here he was in the chicken barn at the fair correcting himself on what we’d taught him: roosters don’t say, “Cock-a-doodle-doo”! they say “oo-oo-OOO!”. Oh, and he liked the baby chicks too:
Little yellow chicks still say “Bock! Bock!”, by the way. Oh, and they’re awesome.
Of course we adults wandered around the goofy salespeople at their booths, looked at over-priced kitchy crafts (Justin wanted a wooden flute SO bad!), and walked ’till our feet were sore. Definitely a great day.
Thanks for coming with us, Nanna and Poppa!!
Sorry for the long absence. Working at 5:30am each morning and having to go to bed when Justin does hasn’t left me much time for telling all that’s been going on! This has (so far) been a fun and exciting adventure of a summer (and lots more to go!). Justin has made lots of discoveries:
1. Outdoor water – generally in the form of fountains and sprinklers:
2. Penguins are awesome.
3. Shopping carts can be bent to the will of this toddler.
(You’ll note that he’s buckled in. When we first put him in the cart he was facing the appropriate direction. He has toddler powers I’ll never be able to understand.)
4. “He-Man Day” is the best day of the month.
Each month MattyCollector.com releases a new Masters of the Universe Classics figure. Justin loves He-Man and the MOTU more than just about anything. He has endearing names for He-Man (Bubba), Battle-Cat (cat-cat!), Orko (oukkg), Mer-Man (“gtgrr” is the sound Mer-man makes), and Skeletor (pronounced “skeh-toe” and frequently followed by an open mouthed “he he he”).
5. I can use my words to get what I want: One morning, repeatedly handing Momma one shirt after another and demanding “And this!” got me to have 6 shirts on at once. Also, shoes are to be applied simultaneously, not one at a time.
More to come!! (especially since we’re going to the Northwest Washington Fair on Monday afternoon with Nanna and Poppa!!!)
Tonight I was walking Justin around the house, him holding on to one of my fingers, when his grip got just loose enough that I pulled my finger out and he kept on going!! He took three steps toward his daddy before plopping his bum down on the floor.
Woohoo! Keep up the good work, my little monkey child!
I took Justin to visit my workplace on Saturday (BioLife) and was told there was a T-shirt in my mailbox for me. This is what I found:
Erin, I know you’ll really appreciate this. I’m just glad to have evidence of the silliest plasma donation promo mascot ever. And yes, corporate has big foam suits of this guy – yup, it is possible to dress up as a very large drop of human serum… that looks like a cross between pee and the Kool-Aid man (who I’ve decided is Captain Plazmo’s arch-nemesis).
Oh Yeah!
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“Leaping rats, freshly washed rats, silly though they may be,
Draw lots of entertainment from digging in our garbage with glee.”
Yes, this is my faken- haiku to our rats who just got baths and proceeded to get into the leftover dirt from my gardening project.
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