Corny!

About a week ago my family came out over Conference to visit. It was a lot of fun. I wish that I had some pictures that included them; however, I only got Calvin pictures (I am biased) while we were all at the corn maze. Well, at least he is cute. The corn maze was a lot of fun, and there were a lot of fun activities for kids and families too.

Kinetic Sculpture

Calvin and I went to the Farmer's Market at Thanksgiving Point a week ago. They had an art exhibit that included this cool kinetic sculpture. It had big buckets of water that was piped and moved around. There were various switches and levers that could be pulled to affect the sculpture. Sometimes it made noise and sometimes it shot or dumped water. It was a lot of fun. I couldn't get Calvin away from it. He was in little guy heaven!

How to get a kid to eat his vegetables

It turns out that all you have to do to get some kids to eat their vegetables is to grow them yourself. If we pull it out of the garden Calvin will pretty much eat it. He is eating raw Zucchini here. He eats carrots, squash, tomatoes, cucumber, strawberries, peas, lettuce and peppers so well when he helps pull them from the garden. Yay!

Monster Carrots!

So that is why you are not supposed to plant carrots too close! Yesterday I wanted to pull some carrots from the garden to put into my dinner, but this was the beast that I ended up with! You wouldn't believe how intertwined those things were!

Washing Dishes

I thought this was a funny moment worth talking about. Calvin and I had been cooking (hence the apron) and we had accrued some dishes in the sink. Calvin thought that was great and he jumped right in to do his thing. I am not sure that his purpose was to clean dishes, but whatever it was he was having fun - at least until I pulled him down.

Canning

I canned! This is not a pastime that I usually take part in. I am planning to do more, but here is my start. I am pretty proud of how pretty they are. They are cherries by the way.

The great haircut!

A few weeks ago (yep, that long ago) Calvin and I made a visit to Aunt Chelsea's to get a haircut. I'd let his curls grow out too long, and although I loved them, he was taken for a little girl way too often. Fortunately, Chelsea is a pro and she did a great job giving Calvin a little boy's haircut. I still think he is super cute!

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