Summer Fun

Dave headed up north this past weekend to help his brother build a cabin (which is looking really awesome). That meant I intentionally filled our days with some fun activities to break up the monotony of being asked, "What can I do now?" or "Can I play Wii?" Those questions are AJ's version of I'm bored.

We hoped to check out an ultralight fly-in at the EAA, which is a local aviation museum in town. It's a phenomenal place to have to explore with a great hands-on children's section, which is usually all we get to visit. We took a different route to the children's section, so we got to see a few other things before playing there for a while. The fly-in was cancelled due to potential storms, but we managed to catch a shuttle to the hangers across the airstrip. The hangers have more than 50 more airplanes and vintage cars and other cool things to see. With the boys, it's more of a quick tour than actually reading anything in detail, but it was fun to explore.

Snarky face from Teddy. "Mom, let me go explore these."

 
Sunday we drove 2 hours to meet my dad and uncle for a dairy breakfast. Dairy breakfasts are a Wisconsin tradition, otherwise known as breakfast on the farm. It's quite literally what the second name says: you go pay to eat breakfast on a farm. The meals are large breakfasts, most often with pancakes or eggs, sausage, cheese, yogurt or applesauce and ice cream. This particular dairy breakfast had all you could eat buttermilk, blueberry or potato pancakes and strawberry sundaes. It was a great dairy breakfast, but it was even better to spend some of Father's Day with my dad and uncle.

Instead of a sandbox, it's a corn box.

The ride there was a bit rough, but the boys were excited to be at the farm. Teddy actually sat contentedly to eat much better than usual, possibly entertained by the live musician right behind us. AJ's favorite was the corn box, a giant sandbox filled with dried shell corn instead of sand, with tractors and shovels. Teddy and AJ both held a kitten and saw the other animals at the petting zoo. Teddy's favorite was absolutely the wagon ride tour of the farm. He kept veering toward the tractors pulling the wagons, trying to finagle a ride on them.

Our afternoon adventures included a slip-n-slide with Dave once he got home from up north. The boys both had a blast with it. Teddy definitely slipped and slid, although he didn't need to do any running and diving to do that.

Dave captured this amazing shot of Teddy!

These are the memories I hope the kids have of their childhood. The simple, fun things with family.