The Frumps Spend A Day at the Fair

So for Mother's Day, Jericho announced, "We thought you would want to go to the fair, mom."

Funny how that decision came about, because first thing they said after I agreed was, "Can we go on some rides?"

Reminds me of a story my dad used to tell about himself at about age 7 figuring out a pretty good racket. "Dad, mom wants to go see ____ movie." Then he'd go in to his mom and say, "Mom, dad wants to go see ____ movie." It worked a few times before they finally caught on that they were being set up, lol.

I'm SO onto them.

"Wookit da cute wittow goats!" Judah squealed as he roughed up the poor little things petted them.

Judah zeroes in on a litter of piglets.

Jericho pointed out, "Hey, look mom, there's a runt! It's Wilbur!"

This little piglet ran for his life decided to get closer to the rest of his littermates when Judah reached his curious little hand in.




Judah mauls pets the young cows. He's not very gentle. Rather bull-in-a-china-closet-ish. We usually intercept him in time, but sometimes he's just a bit too quick for us.




The back story behind this photo is that when we arrived on the scene, the pig in the pen on the right had the blue twine cord in his mouth and was 'sawing' it up and down against the post, which would have sprung the goat from his pen.

Here was the goat's reaction to that plan.

Here was a suspicious character we saw roaming the fairgrounds with an M-16.

I at least managed to make a quick solo trip through the arts buildings before the boys began asking when they could go on some of the rides.

These tortoises went a bit faster than you would expect tortoises to go.

Here, Jericho sits in a tuttle tuttle tree swing.

This was the dragon rollercoaster. Judah started off smiling, but on the very last turn around the track it got a bit herkey-jerkey and he bumped his head. He got off rubbing a very sore head and said, "Dat dragon hurted me!"

Nothing could warm a mother's heart more than to see her eldest child decide of his own accord to get up the steps in the fastest way possible help his little brother since his legs were short and that was a long, long staircase.

Made me want to burst out in song.

Something like, "He ain't heavy...he's my brothaaaaa"

"Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee"

"Mama...dat was SO fun!"

I snapped this photo just before Judah tried to climb back up the giant slide.

It was rather confusing to him that at the park he can do that whenever he wants to, but things were different here.

Adding insult to injury, they wouldn't let him go up the steps to go down the slide again without more tickets.

This ride harks back to my own memories of the Puyallup Fair as a kid.

Though it's probably the exact same ride traveling with a different Carnie outfit (and hence rather old), that's okay, because it's retro now. And retro is in.

Judah had fun, but I'm still coming to terms with the fact that I'm old enough now that the carnival rides of my childhood are now considered retro.

Now, you'd think that since it was Mother's Day and all, my son would graciously consent to a decent mother-son photo. But nooooo...all I get as I'm trying to properly aim the camera for this self-portrait were funky faces being made to my left.

How did I know this was happening?

Because THIS is the cheshire cat grin I saw on his face when I glanced over at him after a whole series of goofy shots.

Yes, that's the face that tells me he was up to no good.

So I gave up.

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

I'm not sure why I thought that sticking my tongue out would be hilarious, but there it is. Looks like I'm licking Jeff's earlobe.

Here are what Tom turkeys look like when chasing a really cool remote control stunt car that can stop on a dime.



Here is Judah contemplating climbing over to "Pway wif da turkeys". Thankfully we caught him just in time.

Here are what Tom turkeys look like when they are thinking about the females of the species. They, like Peacocks, can really strut their stuff.

Here is the breed more commonly known as "Butterball".

For some reason, we had a hankering for some poutlry, and so we left the fairgrounds and stopped off for dinner and Banana Splits, as is our yearly 'tradition'.

Judah was thrilled. "For me?"

Don't even think about it, mom. This is MINE.



It was a lovely, exhausting and fun-filled day.