She and Mia were both so excited about the new picnic table! We knew they would love to have a place on the deck to eat, do projects and enjoy the outside. I love this picture below as they had just got a glimpse of the table and are now looking back at me in pure excitement.
So happy!
Trying out the new table and lovin' it!
We decided to treat Lily to a special breakfast since we had some time this morning. She has three princess-type cookbooks that she loves to look through. A couple of days ago, I asked her what her favorite recipe out of the books was, and she picked the marshmallow lollipops. I decided we would make those plus a few others because she loves to cook. So, after showing the girls the new picnic table, Lily and I set about making an...interesting...breakfast. Here's a picture of Lily stirring up the freshly made strawberry milk. Turns out she didn't like it a whole lot, but Mia enjoyed it.
Next up came the Sea Crunch Bagels. We sliced up mini-bagels, put a little butter on them and then Lily had a great time decorating them with our different color sugars. Here's a picture of them just before going into the oven.
She was so proud of her artistic bagel work!
Mia was having fun too!
Getting a quick snack of marshmallow.
Of all things, I realized this morning I had forgotten to buy marshmallows. I couldn't believe it. Ryan was kind enough to run to Kroger and buy a pack for us while we worked on the other items. We stuck the marshmallows on craft sticks, melted and colored white chocolate and then let the girls swirl the marshmallows in the chocolate. Lily loved watching the batches of white chocolate become neon pink, purple, orange and green. After they were dipped in chocolate, they decorated them with princess accessories. The pack I bought had gold tiaras, red apples, pearls and blue glass slippers. Lily really seemed to enjoy it. Mia had fun swirling the marshmallows and then licking off the chocolate. Here they are swirling and decorating.
Marshmallow lollipops!
Once everything was prepared, I pulled out the strawberry banana jello I made the night before and made jigglers in the shapes of tulips, bunnies and the letter H. Lily was very excited about this. Here's Lily showing off her plate with jello, pink bagel and pink marshmallow lollipop. Obviously, this sugar-laden breakfast is not what we typically serve, but hey, it's fun to do something different sometimes!
Yum...jello!
Mia enjoyed breakfast too. She also enjoyed a banana with her breakfast. Technically this was her second breakfast of the morning as she had a container of yogurt while Lily and I made the milk and bagels. This little one can put food away like I have never seen!
I had also made a snack from Lily's cookbook of Multicolor Goldfish (she is fascinated by those), raisins and pretzels. Lily thought it looked really cool, but we decided to wait until snack time to try them (okay, except one yellow goldfish) instead of adding that to breakfast. It was really fun making all these things with Lily and Mia out of these cute little cookbooks. What a great way to start a birthday celebration!We finished and cleaned up breakfast just before 10. We decided to change clothes and head to the North Georgia State Fair for a little bit because it was such a beautiful day. We arrived about 10:50, and received a pleasant surprise when they said all admission before 11 was free. Sweet! We spent about an hour or so visiting all the animals that were out. The girls loved this! You can see Mia waving "Hi!" to the elephants in the picture below. you will also notice Mia has on her otter backpack leash that Grandpops and Grandma Jan bought her from the Aquarium when they visited recently. This is the first time we have used it, and it is awesome! With Lily, I always thought it was crazy that a parent would put their child on a leash...well, never say never! This was great! We didn't have to worry about Mia wanting to get out of her stroller (not to mention strollers aren't allowed everywhere), and we didn't have to hold Mia the whole time. It made our whole experience so much more relaxing. She enjoyed it too because it allowed her the freedom to walk around a little bit. She would walk as far out to my right as it would go and stare and/or point and/or squeal at the animals or rides; then she would go as far to the left as it would go and repeat. She was fascinated and loving her freedom.
They had four huge tigers out too. Thankfully you couldn't get too close to these guys!
Inside the barn they had lots of ducks, chickens, roosters, goats, birds, horses, llamas, cows and rabbits. I was impressed with Mia's ability to recognize the animals. Both girls really enjoyed this area.
I was very impressed with this tall camel. He kept sticking his head over the fence which I thought was funny. They also had a zebra, alpaca, turkey, ostrich and goats under this tent.
Lily and Mia both loved picking up hay and feeding it to this tiny goat through the fence.
After visiting with all the animals, we walked into the ride and food area. Lily wanted to ride the farris wheel which we agreed to until we realized she wasn't tall enough; maybe next year. Then Lily got her heart set on the game where you use a sledgehammer to hit a target and it moves a little weight up to ring a bell. Obviously, she isn't strong enough to make that happen, but the vendor was very kind and helped her so the bell rung when she hit the target; she won a pink ball for her effort, and she was thrilled. We ended up not riding any rides. Neither girl seemed too interested in the carousel, so we opted out of that. All the kid rides were single rider only, so no adults could go with them. There was no way we could let Mia go on by herself, and we doubted Lily would want to go by herself. So we bought a big lemonade to share, nachos for the girls and corn dogs for us and enjoyed a nice lunch under some shade. We headed out about 1 and went to McEntyre's Bakery to pick up Lily's birthday cake for her afternoon party. Both girls were exhausted when we got home, so they took naps. Ryan and I finished cleaning up from the morning, he took a nap and I took a shower. Then it was time for Lily's party! More about that in the next post. This was a great way to start celebrating Lily's birthday!
They had four huge tigers out too. Thankfully you couldn't get too close to these guys! Inside the barn they had lots of ducks, chickens, roosters, goats, birds, horses, llamas, cows and rabbits. I was impressed with Mia's ability to recognize the animals. Both girls really enjoyed this area.
I was very impressed with this tall camel. He kept sticking his head over the fence which I thought was funny. They also had a zebra, alpaca, turkey, ostrich and goats under this tent.
Lily and Mia both loved picking up hay and feeding it to this tiny goat through the fence.
After visiting with all the animals, we walked into the ride and food area. Lily wanted to ride the farris wheel which we agreed to until we realized she wasn't tall enough; maybe next year. Then Lily got her heart set on the game where you use a sledgehammer to hit a target and it moves a little weight up to ring a bell. Obviously, she isn't strong enough to make that happen, but the vendor was very kind and helped her so the bell rung when she hit the target; she won a pink ball for her effort, and she was thrilled. We ended up not riding any rides. Neither girl seemed too interested in the carousel, so we opted out of that. All the kid rides were single rider only, so no adults could go with them. There was no way we could let Mia go on by herself, and we doubted Lily would want to go by herself. So we bought a big lemonade to share, nachos for the girls and corn dogs for us and enjoyed a nice lunch under some shade. We headed out about 1 and went to McEntyre's Bakery to pick up Lily's birthday cake for her afternoon party. Both girls were exhausted when we got home, so they took naps. Ryan and I finished cleaning up from the morning, he took a nap and I took a shower. Then it was time for Lily's party! More about that in the next post. This was a great way to start celebrating Lily's birthday!
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