Road Trip

Last week Brooks and I road-tripped to my parent's house in Green Bay.  It was 8 hours of driving, but Brooks was an awesome rider!  I suppose it helped that I had packed a whole arsenal of car-friendly activities - crayons & paper, books, toys, lots of kid music and the lifesaver of it all .... the portable DVD player!!  Brooks LOVED seeing his Grandma Marty and Papa Dave!!!  And they sure loved having him around too.

Thursday we took a trip to Door County and visited The Farm.  This has to be the coolest petting zoo ever!  Baby goats, sheep, chicks & kittens were just wandering around, waiting to be fed and held.  And we did both!  My Aunt Rose lives right in Sturgeon Bay so she came along for the fun too!

This goat loved Grandma Marty :)

Since Chris is terribly allergic to cats, I had to take advantage of holding kitties while I could!

Friday we ventured out to Bay Beach amusement park.  We went last year, but since Brooks was so little he wasn't able to ride many of the rides.  But this year he could go all by himself!  What a big boy.  And despite my fears that he would scream during the whole ride, he LOVED them!

Captain Brooks!

Brooks riding the zebra on the carousel

Riding the train with Papa Dave



The weather on Thursday and Friday was awesome!!  Then on Saturday the heat and humidity came.  Quite a few of my mom's brothers and sisters came for the afternoon to visit.  It was nice chatting with them, but while they were all sitting in the hot stuffy kitchen, Brooks, Papa Dave and I snuck out for a little pool time.  Ok, so only Brooks swam, but I stuck my feet in the pool and Brooks splashed Papa Dave enough that he might as well have gotten in :)

I love this kid!

We had so much fun and it was really hard to say good-bye!  But we're looking forward to seeing them again in just a few weeks after baby arrives!