A Night at the Fair

Does this set look familiar? This was in the kids farming area.

What a cute cow and pig!

I think I recognize that cow, pig, and sunflower. Do you?

Williamson County Fair

Mimi (Matt's mom), Sophie and Matt went to the Williamson County Fair on Monday. Sophie enjoyed going through the Little Ones Farm. She got to feed chickens, plant corn, and milk a cow.

Sophie rode the dragon ride and the little helicopter ride.

Matt and Mimi tried to convince Sophie to ride more rides, but once she saw the bluegrass concert that was going on at the end of the midway, she no longer wanted to ride the rides. We saw the Ward Family Bluegrass Band of Columbia, TN on the Bluegrass stage. Sophie sat, listened and clapped for 40 minutes. She didn't even want to go get treats from the midway. Who knew that a three-year-old would rather sit and listen to bluegrass than ride the carnival rides?

Mimi came down to visit us this week from Virginia. We've had a great time with her! Sophie got to go to a marionette puppet show (The Frog Prince) at the library, we ate at The Aquarium restaurant (but none of the pictures really turned out), we've gone shopping a couple of times, we've been swimming, and more. Sophie enjoyed going to The Aquarium restaurant and seeing the scuba diver feed all of the fish. Sophie & Mimi have been big buddies this week. She's had fun going and doing lots of stuff because our social lives slowed down a good bit after Abbie came along!

Kings Dominion

Here we are at the Eiffel Tower in Paris (not)...in Doswell, Va. at Kings Dominion. This was Sophie and Abbie's first trip to a theme park.

Sophie surprised us by wanting to see almost all of the "characters" up close (whether she knew who they were from TV or not). Here is Sophie, Aunt Leia, and a Rugrat.

Sophie was so excited to meet Dora and Diego. She gave them high fives.

Sophie rode several rides in the kiddie land. She loved being on every ride unlike the girl in the jeep behind her.
Abbie enjoyed people watching with Mimi.

Sophie rode her first roller coaster-the Taxi Jam- with a "responsible" adult since she was under 40 inches tall (OK, Matt's writing this post as I supervise from over his shoulder-who could be more responsible than her mama?). Sophie enjoyed the rides for about an hour, and then she kept asking for us to move on to the waterpark area of Kings Dominion, where we spent the whole afternoon. Overall, we had a great time!

Day at the State Fair

The flying dragon and elephant ride

Miss Sophie's Wild Ride. The boy in the back seat really wanted to get out while Sophie had the time of her life.

Nana and Paw-paw treated Sophie to a trip to the state fair. Sophie enjoyed seeing giant pumpkins and watermelons. The first place pumpkin was grown in Maryville, and weighed 1065 pounds. Sophie had been talking about what animals she wanted to see for weeks. We thought we might be able to take her to a farm so she could see cows and horses, but her list of animals grew to include tigers and giraffes. She had a tall order to fill. Well, we did see all of the animals at the fair except for giraffes. Sophie also got to ride a couple of rides (something she wasn't going to let us forget about). Then, we had some lunch and Paw-paw treated Sophie to some cotton candy as promised-it was her first time. All in all, we had a great time and the weather was nice. Sophie fell asleep on the way home.