We had a BLAST last weekend at McFarland Park's festival/open house! We've gone to almost all of them over the years (at least since Christopher was a toddler), but this was the first time the weather cooperated and they had the canoes out. Christopher was SO excited to ride in a canoe (just like Daddy when he goes camping!) and Michael had a super fun time too.
C & M even "helped" paddle, we saw a turtle sunning itself on a log in the lake, big snails in the shallow water, Michael almost fell asleep in the boat, then rallied for another 2 hours while we did most of the other activities. Foster Brown was there...he sings the coolest, cutest nature songs for children. We bought his CD and especially Michael loves it. We dredged the edge of the lake with nets and dumped our finds in a bucket to see what we caught...beetle larvae, snails, etc. Christopher wanted to walk around the lake, we made "walking sticks" at one of the craft stations, did most of the scavenger hunt, and ended back up at the stage area for our 5th or 6th bag of popcorn and 2nd frog-shaped sugar cookie and 3rd or 4th glass of lemonade. At this point, Michael was running around with Gray and Christopher (our friends came a little after we did), and M came up to me, looked up, and said, "Go home, Mommy" in this sweet, I'm going to fall asleep RIGHT here voice. Yeah, he was asleep pretty much before we backed out of the parking lot. Ooh, and Michael's arms weren't really long enough to dredge the lake with the net, but he really wanted to do it MYSELF!!!!...so he stepped up to his hip in the lake with one leg. :) Thank goodness for diaper bags and spare clothes, but who knew to bring spare shoes? He had to squish around for almost an hour, but didn't seem to mind in the least.
Oh, and I'm really glad this was last week when the weather was so beautiful, b/c MAN was it cold and windy this morning!
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