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{this moment}

inspired by SouleMama

- A wordless moment that captures the essence of the week.

(Wordless? I'm not sure I can handle it. I'll keep it brief.)

Mud dancing.

Tulip festival continued.

Oh my word, oh my word. The kids looooooved the game area at the tulip festival. And there really wasn't that much going on. At all. They're easy to please I guess.

Duck races, aka pumping the water so the ducks could swim down the rain gutter, was the favorite.

so. very. exciting.

Brennan couldn't quite get the pumps to work, so he put himself in charge of duck collection.

One of the other main attractions was the super tall old school bumpy slide.

Isaiah was terrified of it last year, but he decided this was his year. He did it just fine over and over again. Brennan climbed that ladder over and over too, but there was no way I was getting a picture of that seeing as I was about an inch behind him the whole time. That ladder is tall and narrow and scary (at least for the grown ups).

Time for a little tulip love

We went to the Tulip Festival today.

It was pretty fabulous.

The crowds were minimal, the sun was shining.

The kids were into it.

Isaiah was writing sketching the different tulips and then writing down all the names.

He did a lot of work.

Totally unposed. I swear. It was that kind of day.

And this kind of day. Brennan was not a fan of the mud after he slipped in it a few times.

It was lovely. Tomorrow I'll post the equally exciting play/game area.

the last of the tulips. until next year.

After looking at every single tulip in the world,

We actually came to the end. The end of tulips.

Which was good cause Brennan had started smelling every single one.

The kids had become more interested in photos of themselves than the tulips

Some kids were so interested in photos of themselves they tried to get into every picture.

Other kiddos didn't like that.

We decided to head over to the festival part of the action.

where we found some water pump rubber duck races

and a huuuuge slide

Ellen has never really been one to enjoy huge slides

Bu with Dave behind her

She thought it was "awesome!!!"

And then we saw horses.

Well really Brennan saw horses.

He started off just peering through

And then kept trying to get closer and closer

After a few minutes the other kids thought he had a pretty good idea going there.

We had a repeat of the cow situation. We sat here for a really long time. Dave had been holding the stroller up so Brennan could put his face through the fence, but by the time we were trying to leave Brennan was holding himself and the stroller against the fence and refused to let go. We had to pry his little fingers off the fence. After all, it was time for lunch.

See ya later tulips.

Even more tulips

I'm not sure how many tulip varieties there are, but I'm pretty sure we saw most of them.

And we were excited about it.

Brennan started thinking he'd like to smell one of these tulips.

Dave helped him out.

Ahhh look at my little tulips.

(Dude. There's still more. Seriously.

Tulips farm part 2

So the tulips.

We saw lots of tulips.

Brennan, however was interested in something else.

Can you guess what??

Cows.

Of course.

They are pretty interesting.

He sat here for-e-ver.

We asked if he was ready like five times. Finally, about 15 minutes later, we had to drag him away from the cows. Crying.

So. Does anyone have a cow Brennan can stare at?

There are a ton of tulips at the tulip festival. Believe it or not.

We went to the Tulip Festival today.

And, well, I took a few pictures.

Actually Dave took quite a few too. I shared.

They're just so darn photographable.

Tons of people thought so.

(We thought it was funny how all the photographers were ignoring the signs)

I'm not gonna subject you to all the pictures I uploaded. Cause there's a ton...

At least not tonight.

But I think things are going to be a little tulip heavy around here for the next few days.