We have quite the artistic skill set here in the Fry household

There's been a couple really funny developments in the last couple weeks.  Daddy drew Macy...I didn't get a picture of his drawing of her, but she cried and then he told her to come show me.  She was still a bit distraught.  So, I tried not to laugh and just told her that Daddy tried his best and that he's just not a very good drawer --I explained that she's much more beautiful than that.  So, then, she drew Dad.  (I'm totally laughing out loud as I write this because it was one of my favorite things that has ever happened...)

And, then Macy drew Jorey...

Jesse James Days

Well, Ken wanted to play ball (weird) in Northfield and I had nothing planned, so we decided to take the family down there and go to the carnival at Jesse James Days.  It was pretty small, but the girls had a great time and I got to eat fried pickles...seriously, is that not a pregnant girl's dream come true?  Take a pickle, put some batter on it, fry it, and give me some ranch dressing to dip it in.  YaHOOOOOOOO!
Though I'm a boom-babba (that's what we've named the baby until we get to meet the little bugger)--and, sometimes the girls call me a boom-babba -- I still made it through the little obstacle course with Jorey...a couple small crevaces were a bit of a challenge, but Boom-babba and I made it through with a few short breaths...

Macy goes to Kindergarten!

Well, we all survived the first day of school.  Macy was super excited and perma-grin all day.  Ken and I got her a little present - a book called Someday.  I thought it would be so cute and read it in the store just fine, but there was something with the moment + the reading out loud + being pregnant and emotional, but I could barely finish reading it to her this morning.  She turned around and looked at me, confused, and said, "Mom, is this book sad?".  Wow...how goofy.  Poor kid.  She's trying to figure out if she missed something and why Mom's a blubbering idiot when she's thinking it's a nice book.  Well, I finally just said I'm really happy and proud of her so it's making me emotional.  I don't think that made much sense because she said, "Well, this is a sad book, huh." 
We met her teacher, Mrs. Kelly and tried to figure out all of the things we had not been able to figure out, quite yet. ha ha.  I think we're all ready for day 2, tomorrow!  I'm going to try to not freak her out with emotional breakdowns!

Natalie builds cool stuff with Tinker Toys

Auntie Natalie was over and watched the girls while I ran to the grocery store.  What a strange sensation to have all the time in the world to just wander in peace and quiet!  It was strange how relaxing the grocery store can be, sans kiddos.
She helped the ladies build the coolest ferris wheel with Tinker Toys and it was great.  I wanted to get a picture, so Jorey decided to pull two pieces off and it started falling apart.  I scolded her a little, so she really had some sadness that I would dare scold her for ruining the project. 

Como Zoo and Como Town

Dad was out of town at his National Softball Tournament (they took 2nd, by the way), so the girls and I decided to try Como, rather than the MN Zoo.  I don't know that they'll ever want to go back to the MN Zoo because the animals at Como are pretty cool and then...there's Como Town.  I felt a bit financially raped by the cost of a ride there, but look at the smiles. ;)  On the dragon rollercoaster, Jorey looked like she was going to cry or scream the whole time and Macy had the giggles.  But, when they got off they were all smiles, so maybe Jorey just had her game face on.

The swings are always a favorite and for our trek to Busch Gardens in May, Jorey was too small to go on them, so that was an extra special treat.  The only downside to this trek was the vast quantity of bees that wanted to swarm around our slushies.  Once we finished them, we were good to go.  I'd like to suggest covered garbage cans for Como Town...just my two cents worth...every time we tossed something in, about 50 bees would swarm all around.  And, for those of you that don't know, Macy has developed a fairly irrational fear of bees.  This fear has caused loud shreaks at moths, flies, and skeeters...on the off chance that they may later be identified as bees.  We've worked on it a lot, so she really tries to keep it together, but if one comes close, she loses it. Those darn bees!

We finally saw some monkeys...they were hilarious.  I highly recommend them.  This fine monkey climbed right up by us, looked at us and looked like it was smiling.  Then, it picked it's nose and ate it.  I laughed and told the girls what happened.  Macy yelled, "Gross!"  And, then, the monkey turned around and faced the other direction.  So funny.  There was also the cutest little baby trying to get to the top with a pink bucket.  After it reached the first platform, it put the bucket on its head.  They were putting on quite the show.