A Day down in Mtown, A Day in Town

It's my birthday weekend, we decided to kick things off with a trip down to Mtown. Peanut climbed into bed with us around 6, then we all snoozed a bit till 730. A half hour later then I wanted, but ah well. We drove down there, he was pretty good in the car, then walked up to the farmer's market.

He spent a lot of his time with Mr Veggie in the grass as I tried to scope out the funny vegetables for the best prices. Picked up a GF hazelnut brownie for us to snack on and some cheese curds.

Mmmm. Cheese curds. Be still my heart.

Then Mr Veggie had to open his big mouth and mention there was a train track just a few blocks away, and we had to go that way. Though there was Indian Independence festival happening, Peanut plunked his butt down on the sidewalk and watched them dance to the music. The train tracks were rather anti-climatic, but the view of the lake was really nice.

We headed back to the market, picked up some GF bread items, dragon tongue beans, a giant globular eggplant, some swiss chard and oyster mushrooms. Also found some sweet smoked trout (absolutely delish, I devoured that today).

There are a lot of honey vendors there too, and one of them had brought a bunch of bees, which fascinated Peanut. We bought him a honey stick, which we all ended up enjoying, and got him to say 'Bees make honey.'

We were running late though, I always forget how long it takes to make it through the market with a 2 year old, especially with a train track detour. So we decided to skip going to the children's museum, we ate the rest of our curds and some of our bread in the grass.

Took off for the car for a nice little nap. The heat was doing me in so him and I both took a nap while Mr Veggie drove around town, tracked down our dinner location then cruised around. After about an hour Peanut woke up and we headed down to the zoo.

Last time we were there the seal was his favorite. What would win this time?? Another water animal? The giraffe? Maybe something unexpected?

Whoever said otter raise your hand! He absolutely loved those. He still liked the seals, and the fish were neat. Really it was all the water animals that captivated him. We'll have to take him to an aquarium. There's a few options, though the best option is quite a drive away. Maybe this winter, since it doesn't have to be nice to hit those up.

We just missed going for a train ride, which infuriated him, but the attendant was nice and let us get a picture before she closed up shop.

I also got some goat pictures and videos. Every August since he was born he's fed the goats. My calendar next year is going to be just him feeding goats. I should have Aunt K get Baby E to feed a goat somehow this month. Or a picture with him and a goat.

We'll see.

We went to a restaurant afterwards. I think Mr Veggie and I will have to take a day to ourselves next spring, maybe go back. That place was good and had so much potential, but Peanut could not settle and only wanted to eat toast. Which is why we never go to restaurants with him :D

Today we had a chillax day. He spent some time at Meemaw's and Papa's while we stayed home and did some household stuff, cleaning, some painting, got a little nap in as he didn't sleep great and woke up early. What I had WANTED to do was go mini-golfing, but I guess the place closed down. Super duper sad. I need to find a place we can go to next summer as I bet Peanut will be up to it. We all helped with dinner at Meemaw's, I chopped and diced most of the veg for dinner, and then made the dragon tongue beans. Mr Veggie helped by keeping Peanut occupied :D He did a good job eating, chowing down on rice and Papa's meatballs.


AND NOW IT'S TIME FOR THE VIDEO MONTAGE!