Sweet Corn Festival

This weekend is the annual sweet corn festival, so here are a few pics from our time there. There are booths, lots of food (of course) and activities for kids. The girls went on a pony ride and that was a big hit. There is a little remote controlled school bus that is always at these events. Someone sits with a remote, moves the bus, and talks into a microphone that changes his voice, so the kids think the bus is talking. The girls were quite enamored with this. Our first time through, Clara just wanted to keep walking when the bus knew her name and asked her questions, but then wanted to go back. You can see her interacting in the pics below.

Trying to decide if she should answer.

Telling the school bus how old she is.

Happy on her pony

Carnival night

Here are a few recent pics. A small town close by has a town sponsored "night out" at a local park. We met friends and the kids had a ball playing on all the inflatables. I also included a pic of Clara's new bike. It's a bit big for her, so she still gravitates to her smaller one.

Ellie was scared to go on this slide, but once I went down with her, I had to make many more trips up with her!

Clara, of course, had no fear

This was a pretty fun ride--I never would have gone if Ellie hadn't been afraid to go alone--now I know what I've been missing.

Clara's new bike. This used to be her cousin's. It's still a little big for her, but she's had fun riding it a little on our road.

The new pool

I had to post a pic of this. We just got this pool for the girls. You can see the hose filling it at one end and at the other Rog rigged up this system to get some warm water in from the kitchen sink. I thought those of you who know Rog well would get a kick out of this.

You can see our faucet extended into the pipe which is being held by the ladder.