Ingham County Fair

We went to the Fair today............petting zoo area with lots of goats, cow, donkey, alpaca, sheep, goats, ducks, rabbit, pigs....fun to be with.

There were very large Belgian horses hitched to carts and wagons - HUGE!!!!

And lots of animals that kids had raised - cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, rabbits, and many things that they had made on display.

Allison and I rode the ferris wheel twice.....and you can see the space in her mouth where she has lost 2 teeth. She enjoyed lots of other rides, too.

We both had corn dogs for lunch - a fair special.

We played at the park nearby for a few minutes before leaving for home.

Sunday Golf

We went golfing this morning..........

As you can see, Allison does not take this sport very seriously!!!!!!!!

She did use her brothers' putter a few times. She enjoyed being responsible for the pins on the greens.......if you saw a flag waving on a green, it was her!! And the monkey on the cart....that was her, too. John had one word for her game - hopeless!!!!!!

Her second tooth came out after dinner. She wiggled and twisted and out it came!! It was very loose and ready to come out.

Looks like the tooth fairy will be coming again. Allison asked if she was really alive. She gave money, didn't she????????

Ruth reports that the tooth fairy has been giving Sacagawea dollar coins.....

We'll see in the morning......

Morning at the Zoo

This morning Allison and I went to Potter Park Zoo - unfortunately many of the animals were taking their morning naps!!!! The otters were sleeping, the new baby snow leopard was sleeping, the tigers were sleeping, the lion was sleeping, the penguins were sleeping..............the spider monkeys were playing together and fun to watch.

Allison got to ride a camel - bumpy!!

We went to Ruths' house to see friends for lunch... And to play with Sadie, the dog. We also got to see Jacob - Lisas' grandson.

ALLISON LOST A TOOTH!!!!

Allison lost her first tooth this evening!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She will put in in a tooth fairy pillow that belonged to her mom, Ashley.

There are 3 more loose teeth in her mouth. The second one on the bottom will fall out next - in a couple days or less!!!!
Her top two teeth are loose, too!!!!!

P.S. - Before Allison went to bed her Grandpa John asked what the tooth fairy would leave in the pillow. She wasn't sure, so John said maybe a dime. Allison said that would be nice.
This morning there were 10 dimes in the little pocket in the tooth fairy pillow, and the question, "Is the tooth fairy alive?"
She left money, didn't she??????!!!!!!!

Allison LOVES the pool!!!!

Allison is loving her time at the pool. Today we arrived and she jumped right in and sat on the bottom!!!!

She goes right to the diving board with the big kids, and like the energizer bunny, just keeps on going and going and going off the board. Today she added a scissors jump and a pencil jump to her repertoire!!

She does not swim on her own - uses the swimmies - but if she were at a pool a couple times a week, she would be swimming by herself. She knows what she has to do....and tries......

We came home today, got dinner on the table, and she ate a large plate of spaghetti and melon......she works hard at the pool!!!

She has the Barbie dolls out all over the floor in the bedroom today - I hardly know she is here!!!!! She did come running out of the bedroom to tell me that me that it is raining...so I know she is alive!!!!! And we are getting a little much needed rain.

FLIP FLOPS

Allison is spending the week with us.

We did some foot prints to make flip flops.........Allsion did the stitching around this set of footprints. She was very proud of herself and her finished wall hanging.

I hung it in the back hall. Everyone can see it when they come in from the garage.

Allison went to the pool yesterday. She went off the diving board at least 30 times!!!!!

She did jumps, twists, twirls, legs spread out, cannonballs and had a great time.

She was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

Andrew is 1 year old!!!!!!!!!

Andrew celebrated his first birthday this past weekend.

Alexander and Allison made cupcakes and we had the greats join us for dinner and cake and ice cream.

Andrew enjoyed his own cupcake.