Last weekend we went for a walk across the Big Dam Bridge. It was a beautiful day & there was a nice breeze. Obviously the view was lovely.
Although it looks like we have the bridge all to ourselves, it was really quite busy. I just lucked out that there was no one immediately behind us as we rounded the corner headed to the top.
Brandon enjoyed riding on the front end of the stroller. Laedyn kept kicking at him, and he was mildly irritated by it - but not enought to get off & walk. Doesn't it look like she's deliberately trying to provoke him? That reminds me of my brother Eric - he was always trying to instigate trouble...
Brandon likes to stop & look at all the informational signs. When we tell him what they say & ask if he knew it, he says yes (of course). Then he repeats it & says to us "
YOU didn't know!" That's his favorite phrase. The way he says it makes it even funnier.
On this sign, he's pointing out the the native birds & telling us that none of them live in Arkansas. Of course he concluded his lesson by saying, "
YOU didn't know."
Laedyn got hungry at the halfway point on the way over to the North Little Rock side so we had to stop & feed her. Luckily they have a couple of wider areas there where people can stop to soak in the view without blocking the path of people just trying to get from point A to point B. That CERTAINLY wasn't us!
When we reached the North side, Brandon was hopping around in obvious discomfort. Happily they have a couple port-a-potties. Then, while I took some pictures, Nick sat with Laedyn and held her upright so she could watch all the people walking, running & biking past. She really enjoyed that.
While taking our break on the North side, we acquired a passenger. We named him the hitch hopper. He rode all the way back to the Little Rock side and didn't seem inclined to ever leave the stroller. Nick had to make him get off. I hope he's not too lonely over here so far away from North Little Rock . You can't tell in this picture, but he's missing his big rear hopping leg on the other side. Poor guy!
He kept a judicious distance at first until I told him the spider could not get past the red roping. Then he decided to thoroughly inspect the "danger" sign.
He still wasn't entirely sure it was safe to be so close to such a HUGE ugly spider...
Here, I asked him to look scared for me. It was too funny. I put this picture as the wallpaper on my laptop because it makes me laugh every time I see it.
While the brownies were in the oven, the boys raced around making lots of noise. Jackson was singing "Who Let the Dogs Out" while jumping up & down. Brandon was just jumping up & down. Laedyn was VERY amused. She laughed more than she ever had before. I missed most of it, but she was still pretty entertained when I finally came in with the camera.
I know there are far more pictures of Brandon than Laedyn, but that's just because he does alot. I take a bunch of Laedyn, but she's usually just sitting in one of her seats looking serious. Anyway - I thought she needed a bit of the spotlight tonight, so here are a couple recent ones of her. Isn't she cute in her little purple velvet hoody??? And amazingly I managed to catch her laughing for a change!
Although it looks like we have the bridge all to ourselves, it was really quite busy. I just lucked out that there was no one immediately behind us as we rounded the corner headed to the top.
Brandon enjoyed riding on the front end of the stroller. Laedyn kept kicking at him, and he was mildly irritated by it - but not enought to get off & walk. Doesn't it look like she's deliberately trying to provoke him? That reminds me of my brother Eric - he was always trying to instigate trouble...
Brandon likes to stop & look at all the informational signs. When we tell him what they say & ask if he knew it, he says yes (of course). Then he repeats it & says to us "YOU didn't know!" That's his favorite phrase. The way he says it makes it even funnier.
the burlap sack slide 
While we were in the kiddy ride area, we ran into Nick's friend Rich and his family. Brandon rode the race cars with Jackson, but then we lost them. Jackson is pretty tall & went off to ride taller kid rides with his Mom. 
Brandon was really disappointed, but cheered up once he was on his next ride. He rode a million rides that day!
When Brandon was riding with this little girl, he started out happy enough, but she kept scooting closer & closer until he was squashed against the side of the cart. Then every time she turned her head he got smacked in the face by her ponytail. By the end of the ride he was looking pretty irritated.
Brandon wanted to ride the ferris wheel, but Nick doesn't like them. I would have gone with him, but it started to get too late, so I just took a picture instead.
We got a babysitter for Laedyn and took Brandon to the fair on Saturday. As usual it was rather warm at the fairgrounds, but a really nice day. Brandon really enjoyed the animal barn with the animals you could get right up close to.
One day while Nick was in Chicago running the infamously cancelled marathon, Jennifer & I took the kids for a walk around the neighborhood. It was pretty warm, so Brandon was pleased to find someone running their sprinkler. He ran back & forth a half dozen times at least before we could drag him away.
Brandon was very proud of his "spoon bridge" & asked me to take a picture of it. Can you tell he'd just eaten some bread with peanut butter? He was pretty proud of that too...
