Day Trip!

Last Sunday Daddy really wanted to do something other than stay home.  Unfortunately, every place he could think of was either closed or only open at night.  Then he thought of a place Mama had wanted to stop on our vacation but was closed at the time.  So, Daddy looked it up and it was open! After church we headed out.  Turns out it was a really neat apple orchard!

Mama was interested in the gemstone mining, but it wasn't really mining.  Daddy had to go buy a bag of dirt from the gift shop and we got to clean it up.  Here I am watching Mama to see what I needed to do...

Trying it myself...

Gotta wash all the dirt away to find the pretty rocks...

Look! I found one!

After we checked out the mining operation, we walked around and checked things out.  There was a little playground area with things for kids to play with.  I made music...

and played on the wooden truck...

and even got silly on the "roller coaster"! (in case you didn't notice, I was going down backwards!)

We also walked around the gift shop, had caramel apples (me) - donuts (daddy) - and peach ice cream (mama), and got to see the cider mill (it wasn't running for the year yet, though).

I had fun and I hope we go back again!

Exploring the Wizard of Oz

Towards the end of summer, Grandpa, Mama, and I went to a local museum that was doing a Wizard of Oz exhibit. Did you know that the Wizard of Oz is very much like the Wizard of Ha's?!? Mama says that is because Veggie Tales based their story on the story of the Wizard of Oz. I think that's pretty neat.

Here I am pretending to be Dorthy...

Gotta gather the eggs. I was actually collecting the eggs to take over to Munchkin-land...

A Munchkin in Munchkin-land!

Picking my brain like the Scarecrow (*Mama singing "if I onnnnlllly had a brain...!"*)

Having just exited a "scary" cave for courage like the Lion...

There was a little display where we could listen to heart sounds and test our heartbeats like the Tin-man, but Mama didn't get any pictures of that.


Here I am helping the monkeys fly...

Pretending to be the Wizard...

And checking out the story of the Wizard of Oz....

That Time of the Year

I have only been waiting FOR-EVER for this day to come. In fact, I even woke Mama up last week because I wanted this day to be here NOW! Finally, I can go back to school. *does a happy Jelly Bean dance* And even better, I now get to go five days a week! YIPPEE!!

Posing for my first day of school picture...

Being silly waiting for the bus. Yes, I get to be a bus rider this year!

And even more silliness...

*a note from Mama - Yes, Jelly Bean *really* is just this excited to be going back to school. As Daddy likes to point out, Jelly Bean is just like Lisa Simpson from the Simpsons. I thought we were going to have a melt down when I told her last week she still had another week until school started.