On Friday, Jeff was playing at a local restaurant. His gigs usually start pretty late, well past the kids' bedtimes. But this one started at 6 pm, so I was able to take Kaitlyn and Ethan to watch their daddy play guitar. That's all Kaitlyn could talk about during the car ride over there. We sat right in front of the stage. Lest anyone worry about potential hearing loss, it was a restaurant and people were eating, so it wasn't too loud...and it was more of an acoustic set, not his usual rocking out. Anyway, Kaitlyn was fascinated and kept pointing to Jeff on the stage and saying "Hi Daddy." Her face lit up when he gave her a shout out from the stage :) Here's a sweet picture of Kaitlyn and her hero.
On Saturday, we took advantage of a free event at the nearby local agricultural center. They had farm animals available for the kids to pet. Normally Kaitlyn is a little reserved in new situations and has to be coaxed to try something new. But she marched right up to the horses and started petting them. She even put her hand right up to their mouths and fed them. She's still talking about the "big horsie" and the "little horsie." Guess she's not shy around animals.
Then we moved on to sheep. It wasn't long before she was instructing the sheep to "come over here and eat!"
After going back home for naps (all four of us managed to nap at the same time! A miracle!), we headed downtown for more outdoor adventure. Kaitlyn has a particular passion for "downtown." She usually asks several times a day to "go downtown and see tall buildings." She even likes to replicate downtown with her building blocks and pretend that her toys are going downtown. So we went to the fountains at Bicentennial Mall. She loved splashing in the runoff stream from the fountains, but didn't care for the fountains themselves. Somehow she managed to stay mostly dry amid the shooting streams of water.
And she got a special treat when a train went by. Here's a picture of her standing in front of the tracks. She loves trains.
The only way she would run through the fountains is if Daddy ran with her. I think Jeff got wetter than she did!
Ethan was hanging out in his stroller for most of the time, but he did get to enjoy some views too. Here he is checking out the fountains.
Ethan and Mommy in front of the state capitol.
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So our children seem so similar...we recenlty went to a farm and Asher had no hesitation in petting the goats and feeding them. He also only gets his feet with (with much coaxing) at the fountains, despite me dressing him in full bathing suit gear. We've been loving this cool July weather as well!
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