Kickapoo Country Fair & Stella in the Highchair

This year we took a Sunday off and went to the Kickapoo Country Fair at the Organic Valley Headquarters in La Farge, WI (about 45 miles from us). It is probably the coolest fair we've ever been to...organic food, organic coffee, maple syrup cotton candy, excellent speakers, cool vendors, great music,Wisconsin made beer...it was awesome!

Stella was enamored with 2 things at this fair...#1 was the "Ladies on Stilts" walking around the fair all weekend

and in the children's parade...

#2 was carrying around Shannon Hayes book Radical Homemakers...I bought the book and got to have Shannon personally sign my copy and Stella did not want to let go of the book. My favorite parts about the fair: The feeling that I knew most of the people I saw...even though I might not have ever met them; the great food; being able to let the kids run around and do as they pleased; AND, most of all, meeting Shannon Hayes and listening to her talk about her book. I'm almost halfway through the book now, and I LOVE it. I agree wholeheartedly with every word she has written. In my opinion this is a MUST READ book! Tommy had fun talking to folks about raw food and tasting some DELICIOUS pro-biotic, raw fermented, foods like Sauerkraut made locally.
Reeve and Kyle's favorite part was running around with their friends AND building the most AMAZING sandcastle ever.

It was very strategically placed under a couple of awesome shade trees...so the kids weren't baking in the sun.

All the kids worked so well together! They were all busy creating, digging, building...together. It was wonderful to see.

and what blog post would be complete without a set of Stella pictures? Stella pretty much keeps us all laughing and giggling all the time. We all get a kick out of watching her eat. She has such enthusiasm for the food I make, that it's hard not to smile. Can you believe she's never had a jar of baby food? Neither did Reeve or Kyle...we had a baby food grinder in the beginning, but now she doesn't need it.

Yum! Yum!

Look at that smile!

Breeze Break...(that's when it's very hot, and you feel a breeze blowing by, and you lift your arms up and stop what you're doing, and say Breeze Break!)

Now she's ready for her bath, and saying, "will someone get me out of here?"