In Tyler's defense, he's not doing it to drive us crazy. I'm pretty sure he's doing it because he wants to learn more about things. He hasn't quite grasped the subtle distinctions about when it's appropriate to ask the question ("Here is your Toy." "Why?" "Did you like school today?" "Why?") but he has figured out that when he asks 'why' he generally gets more information, which he seems to like, and we certainly aren't planning to tell him to stop asking.
Jessie is...nesting...a little. This weekend it was important...nay, CRITICAL, that all the light bulbs in the house were properly set. This involved a shopping trip to pick up some conventional bulbs and some CFLs, a lot of using of step ladders, and then a trip to Lowes to drop off the CFLs for recycling and to get a couple of replacement glass covers for the bulbs. She did this. The pregnant one. And then she decided that there were too many leaves on the front yard and that they needed to be raked. She says pregnancy makes her tired, but every once in a while, you wouldn't be able to tell, I'm sure.
This weekend we went to a Carnival. It was actually part of the Austin Rodeo, which sounds really cool, but the actual rodeo part starts at 7:00, and Tyler wasn't going to make it that late. We actually went out right after his nap and hung out mostly at the rides. Tyler was just tall enough to ride a bunch of the little kid rides that had shown up in the giant parkng lot. His favorites were the plane one that went up and down and his very first Roller Coaster (I convinced him to briefly put his hands up in the air) as well as the Ferris Wheel, which had a fantastic view of the whole area. We walked around a lot, had some funnel cake, and had a pretty great time.
We also go to see some pig races, which was staged with surprising professionalism and was a lot of fun to watch. Tyler was pretty into it. There were some vendors, too, but if I'm going to get myself a proper cowboy hat, and at some point I think it's safe to say I will, I'm going to need to take a good long time to make sure the construction is up to snuff and the size is proper for my gigantic head. I'm also likely to need some time for some real soul searching before I buy myself a cowboy hat, because...you know...*cowboy hat*. But I do look good in one, and it keeps the sun off. Anyway, Tyler was getting a little antsy, so we didn't have the time to really get a *feel* for the hats on offer. Or the boots. Those are lower on my list...give it time.
The petting zoo was my favorite. I love a good petting zoo. They had a lot of nice goats, a llama, some deer, and even a couple of shaggy cows (calfs?). All very well behaved. They also had newborn goats and even some young kangaroos, but those were cordoned off from the general populace.
I also got a kick out of the livestock area. They had the best-in-show winners all out for us to see, and they were some pretty-looking specimens, I do agree. They also had some chickens, which I'm pretty sure Tyler had never seen alive before, as well as a whole bunch of baby chicks, which are, of course, fully adorable. Seeing all the prime livestock made me want to be a farmer a little bit. Not because I'm looking for harder work, just because it seems like it would be pretty cool to be good at raising such great-looking critters. And then, of course, killing and eating them. I bet they are all delicious.
And because I said I owed it before, here are some pictures of the Diorama I just finished painting:
Check him out! He's a golem!
I made up a story about him, of course. He was created in a temple that long ago has fallen to ruin.
The golem, however, still stands. And when an adventuring party comes across him, they have to ask...is he still working? Can we go around him? How old are those broken weapons, anyway?
You can even pull him out of the diorama, too.
Looking sharp, dude.
He is made out of the same stone as the temple. They were built at the same time, after all.
-N
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