State Fair...

Ron talked me into taking a trip to The Fair, I thought he was nuts and that we were asking for a day filled with disasters. In case you didn't know I'm not an optimist, though if you ask me about this I will just tell you that I'm a realist. Luckily I was wrong, we had a lovely afternoon at the fair. We brought baby Addie in to Lamperts to visit my mom's coworkers and nab a rockstar parking spot for The Fair.

The double stroller was murder to push around through the crowds, but that was really the worst of our day. We started out at the fair making our way through the animal barns, being sure to see the mother pig and her babies and the biggest swine! Addie slept most of the way, but enjoyed the cool comforts of the FM 107 lactation station and used up two of their free diapers on her tushy.

Jackson ate his way through the fair, starting with a corn dog, moving on to blueberry yogurt from the dairy building, and following it all up with a blue rasperry sno cone. (We have tried dairy and haven't noticed a reaction so we gave up at the fair) He went to town on the sno cone, covering himself in blue syrup... blue syrup that seaped through his shirt and pants making his belly blue! Perhaps the dairy was not the greatest idea as the poor boy ended up with a tummy ache or maybe it was all the sugar in the sno cone. We tried one trip to the bathroom but it didn't provide him any relief. I think he is super sensitive to dairy, but it is not a true allergy so we will continue to limit it and see how he does. Ultimately the excitement was too much for Jackson too and he fell asleep sitting up in his stroller.

Though we had been there for 3.5 hours, we only saw a third of the fair but that was enough for us. Living close to the fair means that both Ron and I have been there multiple times each year and didn't feel like we missed much. Leaving without a trip down the big slide, was a bit of a bummer but overall it was a successful stop at the great Minnesota get-together.