friday festival day

we spent the day dancing to live music, seeing animal fossils and a live snake, playing in the water, hearing stories told, painting, eating locopops and drinking lemonade, a face painting and hearing lots of "she's so cute" in reference to the babes we carried around.

this morning:
hubs made oatmeal and coffee for he and our overnight guest on her way to the airport. e and i had some of the oatmeal but no coffee. i had a bowl of organic raisin bran and rice milk earlier in the morning. on the drive to the festival, e had half a banana.

afternoon:
we packed our lunch to avoid spending our life savings on food although we did miss out on some yummy treats, for sure. two years ago, we ate super yummy local indian food. this year, we snacked throughout the day on leftover beanies and weenies, grapes, dried apricots, raisins, "late july" brand organic peanut butter crackers, PB&J made with 9 grain bread, organic peanut putter and strawberry jam (that my BFF made earlier this summer with berries she picked) and potato chips (the really unhealthy kind that come in a can). lots and lots of water, a natural root beer and we splurged on a ice cold lemonade at the festival. we also bought 3 locopop popsicles with great delight. e ate pomegrant tangerine and i had a few bites while hubs ate two of them; one was verry berry and the other pomegrant tangerine. on the drive home, we all drank lots of water.

evening:
i ate sesame tofu with extra sesame and a spring roll. e went straight to sleep in the car on the ride home at 6pm and hasn't woken up to eat. (she ate a lot today though so hopefully she won't feel like she missed a meal when she wakes up early for the farmer's market in the morning. i brought some food upstairs for her in case she awoke hungry in the middle of the night.) hubs had tofu with brocoli and a spring roll. we chugged gallons of water after such a long day in the heat. i am eating those yummy chocolate covered raspberries as i type this.

today, the bear wore the same dress that e wore to the festival two years ago. another babe at the kid's area had the same dress on! by the end of the day, e had worn three different outfits. she arrived all stars then got her swim gear on for the river and then changed into a dress after the water. my favorite part of today was seeing my girls have fun. watching e enjoy the day was the best. she ran to the front of the audience to dance, watched the little chickens and their mom, painted with her dad and even helped the bear paint! so much fun for us all.