New chairs- Henry.

Grams Cracker sent us down some new lawn chairs. Mine is a Car Movie chair, of course and Juner's has a chicken on it.

Mama quick bribed me to sit for a picture, but didn't realize her camera was on the wrong setting. So this is the best she got. I was already gone to go jump on Mister Anthony again.

But June stuck around for more pictures. She loves her new chair and spent most of the afternoon playing on it. Guess how long mama let this little stunt go on?

Once June got her talking to, she stayed on her bottom.


On Friday, we went to Greensboro to visit the Natural Science Center. It was STILL raining, so we didn't get to see much of the zoo. But we did go out to a new building full of bored teenage volunteers who let us pet a bunny and watch them feed crickets to an 11 inch centipede. It was gross and awesome all at the same time. Then we decided we were all hungry so we found a great new restaurant called Prissy Polly's, which features Eastern and Lexington style barbeque, wonderful fried okra, hushpuppies and delicious fudge pie.

After a meal like that, we all had to come home and just lie around for a while. Check out that big belly and dirty knees.

Mama and Aunt Girl were so pleased to find these little big shorts. They were hidden under her dress until June ate grapes and muskmelon and got it all wet. That's a classy lady.

Aunt Girl and Mister Anthony had to go home today, so we had to find a way to ease our pain in their absence. Luckily, there was a model train show at the fair grounds.

We made it for a few hours until we realized that it's been a long week without many naps and we were all exhausted. Thanks for coming to visit us Aunt Girl and Big Anthony! We can't wait for you to come back!

Pictures from Aunt Girl's camera- Henry.

Here are some more pictures from the week that we nabbed from Aunt Girl's camera.

She had plenty of good pictures from the park on Monday. Unfortunately, the rain started on Wednesday, and in true North Carolina fashion, it's been gray and drizzly since.

We wish we would have taken a picture of June after the playground. She was filthy!

No stairs can keep Juner down.

Aunt Girl calls this picture "fierce."

Mama gets her picture taken instead of just taking pictures. June may actually be a kid who likes to wear hats. She keeps getting this one out of the closet and wearing it around the house. For 3 seconds at a time before she takes it off.

June hitched a ride from Big Anthony during a visit to Wake Forest. The college ladies loved it.

On Wednesday, we headed to Spencer to visit the train museum. A midweek visit was great because we essentially had the whole place to ourselves.

Mister Anthony dreams big and can't wait for the weather to get nice so he and PawPaw can get their motorcycles out and go cruising. Mama shook her had and mumbled something about having a death wish.

Here we are posing in front of an old steamie.

June wants to be an engineer.

I climbed in the caboose to learn about what a caboose does. I told mama that someone has to sit in the back of the train to "watch for problems."

Finally, on Thursday, the rain continued, but didn't stop mama, Big A and Girl from heading down to Olde Salem to check out the originally Moravian community. While they were in search of sugar cake and those yummy flat sugar cookies, they came across a locally famous "sculpture" made of borrowed ladders that represents the community of Winston Salem rising up. Get it, ladder? Rising up? Sigh- modern art.

Other things that happened this week- Juner.

In addition to all the great fun things we did all week, we managed to get in a little time at home this week.

Mama wants Aunt Girl and Mister Anthony to come stay with us forever. They were very attentive to us all week and mama often took advantage of it by going upstairs under the guise of fetching something, but would just sit on the stairs and read a magazine in silence for 20 mintues before coming back downstairs. It was a great break for her.

Mister Anthony turned out to be a great artist and spent tons of time keeping Henry occupied with drawing of cars.

A big favorite in our house has been Henry's new Car Movie Town. Grams Cracker scored it at a church consignment sale and Henry has been earning it piece by piece by, ahem, doing his business on the potty, if you catch our drift. He finally earned all the pieces, including the accessories, and here's the town in all its glory. We were so pleased to find out that all of the signs light up, just like the scene in the movie where they fix up Radiator Springs.

Confidential to Disney: good for you. It's been 4 years (at least) since the release of Cars. But you're keeping it fresh. My new favorite tactic? Release a poster of all the movie race cars. Keep most of them our favorites, but add in a few so that we have to do a double take and wonder who that car is. Then brainwash all three year olds to say the words "I have Doc, I have Lightning McQueen. I have Boost. I have DJ. I have Wingo. I DON'T have Leak Less. " Then you make sure that Leak Less is in stock at Target for only $4! What is a mama supposed to do? Not get it for him? You are sneaky, Disney. Mama and Aunt Girl were estimating how many likenesses of Lightning McQueen exist in our house alone, and we're guessing it's in the thousands.

Annalise called our house requesting more videos of yours truely. We hate to disappoint.

Our master staller shows us how to put away all your lincoln logs with the least effiency.

On Friday, Mama and Aunt Girl took us to Bounce U, an inflatable playground paradise. It was great having an extra adult around so that I didn't have to go inside the inflatables and cry the whole time.

Henry had so much fun, but next time wants Mister Anthony to come too. Aunt Girl was too short to lift him over some of the climibing walls.
While Henry was inside playing, I hung around outside terrorizing babies in strollers. Mama did take me down the big slide a few times. I didn't cry, but I think it may be a while before I want to go down again.