Messy Face

Over the past year and a half or so Ben has definitely started showing more of an interest in older movies - he still likes the cute, fun animated Disney flicks, but he also likes the Super Hero movies and Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. Sean took Nathan and Ben to see "Man of Steel" at the cheap theater one night, which Ben totally loved. They went out for Baskin Robbins ice cream afterwards. Sean looked over in the car and Nathan was clean as a whistle and Ben looked like this. HA! Totally uncharacteristic of him. He also has become quite the reader. He's read three of the Harry Potter books and is anxious to get the others from the library. He read The Hobbit. Actually he came to us and asked us if he could read Lord of the Rings. We suggested that maybe he should start out with The Hobbit first. Dad went out and bought him a nice, hard cover copy of it. He got right to it - finished it in about a week. He's done that with several other books as well. I love that he enjoys reading so much!!

State Fair

We took advantage of School Days at the State Fair again this year. We saw a Cirque Nirvana show, a Wolf show, pig races, Chinese Acrobats, Native American Fire Dancers, saw the model trains, went to the McDonald's Farm fun zone for kids, got a milkshake from the Dairy, saw a cow get milked, checked out the arts and crafts (including the Lego displays), played on John Deere tractors, went to the petting zoo (complete with all the normal animals as well as an ostrich, zebra and baby camel), ate a picnic lunch.....a full day of fun. And all of that for me and 6 kiddos for a whopping...$4. Yes, my friends, that is how it is done.