Balloon Glow '09

We went to the annual Forest Park Balloon Glow on Friday nite.

We went with Annie, Caroline, their mom Jess, Mimi, and Auntie M.

It was a blast. I would have to say that BALLOONS hold a close position next to slides, swings, and bunnies [and bonus--one balloon WAS a bunny!!!] on Laine's list of obsessions.

So there are no balloons here, but this pic of Laine with Auntie M was in the upload, and too cute not to post.

The guy was dressed like a tomato, but the balloon wasn't :(

Here is Annie and Laine sharing a stroller. It worked out rather nice. It was cute that later on when they were tired, Annie was twirling her finger around Laine's piggy tail.


We saw them roll this one out from start to finish...to being laid out on the ground, beginning to inflate, rising, and being taken down.

It made me excited for the Balloon Ride that Adam and I are taking this fall!

It's getting bigger!

Yikes, fire up the heiney!!!

A BUNNY BALLOON--the greatest!

When it started getting dark, you could really see the "glow."

You could really feel the heat from these things. The Pepsi can was out of control and crashing into the other balloons, and then swooping down into the people; we had to RUN out of the way once.

Laine just crawled into the bucket--we thought she was trying to get something out of it, but turns out she just wanted to rest; so we let her stay and pushed her around while she was down there.

And here are her feet peeping through the front of the stroller.

Caroline, Annie and Laine---boogie-ing.

Auntie M---not so much.

Oh, Oh, It's Magic, Ya Know...

We found online coupons for

FREE entry into the Magic House,

so we spent a rainy Saturday afternoon there.

She found her obsession---bunnies! She was ecstatic!

She was also quite entranced by the little "Mouse Hole" with the little mouse family inside. There was even a light switch to turn on and off, and the door could open and close.

She was tippy toe-ing to reach the water pouring out. Surprisingly, she was pretty dry at the end of it all.






Quack, Quack

Just like at home--- she loves to pour the sand all over.

Wheeeeee.

She learned from the big boys that you could just climb up the other side instead of going all the way around and using the spiral stairs. But gosh-darnit--mom wouldn't let her do that too many times.

Full concentration---tongue out and all.




Geez, Louise...they are so alike; next thing you know she's gonna have a unibrow!!!

So many Lainas!!! She loved it---no vanity problems here.

Bubbles galore, I can't believe we ever got her out of the Bubble Room. Good thing there were quick distractions...she would have spent the whole day playing in bubbles!!!

Mommy and Daddy had as much fun with this ball exhibit as Lainey did. If you covered all the other holes, it made the ball float super high. It was pretty mesmerizing to play with. The balls just stayed in the air stream and did not fall.

Laine was so zonked after all the hands-on fun that she couldn't even stand to stay awake for Toys R' Us. We went after and she layed her head on my shoulder the whole time...she was pooped.