Farmer's Market and garage barbecues

This Saturday, we went to the Farmer's Market downtown, just to check it out. We were amazed at the variety of foods and art that were there. It was fun to wander and gander at the people and things there. I don't know if we'll be going every week, but it was fun anyway. Lear and Ella got balloon animals - above is a picture of Lear with his zebra, but Ella's elephant popped before we even left. She was good about it - about all she did was tell everyone she saw that day that "My e-fant boke."

Later that day, we had a barbecue at our house for Pioneer Day. We couldn't celebrate it on Pioneer Day because Cory didn't get the day off. We had our usual crowd - the great-grandmas, Cory's parents, and Karen, as well and Cory's cousin Brindy,  who is not one of our usuals, but we were happy to have her. We always invite more people, but they're the only ones who ever come for some reason. Anyway, after the kids ate we let them swim in our little mini pool. Lear can get his swim suit by himself, but Ella refused to wait for me to get hers, and got in the pool as is. I decided that it would be better to let her have her way this time, but we took off her diaper after a few minutes because it had ballooned to about ten times it's normal size. So, she was just running around in her tank top, until mommy decided enough was enough and got her swim suit for her. (She has the cutest little cottage cheese butt, and it's hard to resist letting her show it off - or taking blackmail pictures for later down the road.) We had to move the party into our garage when it started pouring. We just sat in there on our lawn chairs, chatting and eating Cory's apple crisp (the apples were from the Farmer's Market). Karen entertained the kids with chalk drawings on the floor, which is what she's doing in the picture above. We had a great day, and we're glad that we got to spend it with the special people we had there.

Lear quote: "I don't have an onion, I have a butt." (We had harvested our onion plants, and Cory told Lear in his usual joking manner that he was an onion.)

Ella quote: Nana: "Ella, did you know that Aunt Kelly has a baby in her belly?"

Ella: "Ooo, baby?" Then pointing at Richard, "Papa baby belly!"