yep. sidewalk chalk. it's pretty yummy...
ben and i had fun painting with chalk and water outside a couple weeks ago. we are trying to enjoy every possible minute of this spring-time weather before it gets super hot and humid here. plus, ben is a bit obsessed with mixing colors to see what new colors they make. he does it with crayons, markers, etc inside and really had fun doing it with chalk and water outside. here's momma's shadow pointing out that blue and yellow make green...
...blue and pink make purple...
...and me and a bucket of water make...
a mess!! :)
and most of you know that ben isn't usually a big fan of getting messy, actually. he's quite the interesting combination of being "all boy" in some aspects and (cough, cough) a little bit of a "sissy boy" (cough) in other aspects. but on this day, he was game for getting down and dirty. he even sat and painted his legs for a really long time... (yes, tongue out, as usual)
you should have seen those legs in person when he was all done! they looked so funny!
we also went to our hometown's "depot days" a few weeks ago, in downtown magnolia. we sure do like this town. ben was super excited because he got to walk over the railroad tracks with daddy!!! he loves when we drive our car over the tracks (which is very often, because there are two sets on our way into town) and he loves hearing the whistles off in the distance from our house. so it was super special for him to get to walk over the tracks on this day...
depot days is an annual festival with food booths, crafts, tours through the old depot, fire trucks (and i have to mention porta potties because for some odd reason ben is really into those right now, no pun intended, okay maybe a little intended...) and live music. ben likes music a lot and really enjoyed watching the men play (it was a band of middle-aged guys playing country-ish music). you can tell he's enjoying himself since he's very intently focused and has his tongue sticking out...
he even did a little dancing up on the deck by the old red caboose that sits in front of the depot. we loved going in and out of the caboose (it's always on display there)...
see - here's me loving it (actually, i was loving still being carted around by momma in the sling, and i'm a bit sleepy)...
a highlight of the day was when a real train passed by on the tracks right when we were touring the caboose - so cool!!
and we even had snow cones afterwards. :) we like it here. it's just the right balance of rural charm with close access to urban amenities. although clearly we're already picking up on maybe a little bit too much of that rural charm. can you believe that ben? momma almost fell out of her chair laughing right after she took this picture (those buck teeth! those ears! that hat up high on the head!)... somebody help us all...
thanks for checking in again. more to come soon!!!!!!!!! bye!!!!!!!
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