The Fair

We went to the fair in our area Thursday night. They had a petting zoo and Dash is all about some animals, so we'd thought he'd have fun. Turns out Dash was all about EVERYTHING, even the giant slide. He won some prizes, fed some goats, and went on a few rides, most by himself, but some with John. We had a great time.



This was the oddest petting zoo I've ever seen. They had turtles, a porcupine, an alpaca, a baby deer... just odd things you usually don't see at petting zoos.



I don't know how I got to be 30 and didn't realize porcupines were so freaking big.



Kate had a lot of fun, too, Dash won two balls and she got to play with one, and she just enjoyed taking in the sights. And being cute. =)



Dash on the boat ride...



I don't know if I mentioned this on here... We have a swimming pool, just a cheapo metal frame one that we put up and take down each year, and this year it sprung a leak. John couldn't find it, the water got WAY low, and after some rain it got kind of wuggy. Dash wasn't super interested anymore so we just let it go. I came home from work one day and John told me to go out there and look in the pool and when I did, there were 100 tadpoles in it. I guess a momma frog got in there and thought it would be a good spot to have some babies. Dash has had a BLAST watching them turn into frogs, and so have I. I need to do a post on the whole thing, everytime I go out there they're further along and I grab a few pictures. About 75% of them have turned into frogs now and are climbing up the side of the pool and jumping off to their new life. I'm going to miss them when they're gone, they've been fun to watch.

Here's a picture I took last week, when I noticed they had sprouted legs...



And for good measure, here's a pic of our friendly outdoor hummingbird. We have three that visit our feeder and they have no problem with me coming out there and taking pictures of them. =)