Reunited

They're baaaack! My little muses are home, so I can post a photo and entertain the masses with stories from home. (Caleb's adorable, but it's next-to-impossible to blog interestingly about an infant....) Please note Jensen's swollen eyes-- do they show up in the photo? Anyway, here's their take on their vacation, as told to their intrepid reporter, me. Quick background: they stayed with Grandma and Grandpa for a week, during which time they did more fun stuff than we do in an entire year.

What was your favorite thing you did at Grandma and Grandpa's?

E: Saw farm animals on our adventure at the barnyard (aka the State Fair).

J: Watched tv.

What did you think of the State Fair?

E: We ate cotton candy. It was good.

J: I found out that the bigger bite you take of cotton candy, the shorter it lasts. I don't know what it's make of.

E: Sugar!!!

What else did you do on your visit?

J: Went to a prairie site to learn about prairies in Iowa a long time ago, maybe during the Lewis and Clark time.

E: We rode a sky ride at the Fair. And a guy was yelling. (??? I don't know what this means.)

Did you watch the Olympics?

J: Yeah, gymnastics, swimming, rafting (is this an Olympic sport?!), and others.

E: Swimming and gymnastics and the guys who jumped into the water from so high on that thing and did tricks like somersaults. (I believe this translates to "diving.")

J: I think they got the silver.

What's your favorite thing you ate?

J: Well, I don't know. Chicken strips. Or fried chicken, whatever those things are.

E: Chicken strips. Fried chicken. (Please note: they did not eat chicken strips on their trip. Nor do I have any memory of my mother ever once making fried chicken.)

J: Pop.

E: Cookies and doughnuts.

J: Those were bagels, Evan. Oh, and cake.

What were your sleeping arrangements?

J: Great. Loved it. In the attic.

E: Not very good, because I was scared.

J: We got our own beds, which was good because I got away from Evan's snoring.

E: That was good being at Grandma and Grandpa's.

J: It was good buying sunglasses.

E: Getting a puzzle was good, too. I loved watching the Engine Turtles.

J: You mean Ninja Turtles. And Biker Mice from Mars was good, too.

Where else did you go?

J: Wall-E! Children's Museum! NASA! Awesome!!! (They went to some sort of traveling NASA exhibit and got their pictures taken in spacesuits. The kind of thing my parents would never have consented to when I was a kid, BTW.)

E: I loved going to the Children's Museum!

Do you plan to go back?

J: In about another 10 minutes.

E: Mmmm-hmmmm.

J: In another six weeks.

E: In another six weeks.

What's good about being back home?

J: That I get to see Caleb again 'cause I really love him. And you guys. Don't want to make you jealous.

E: It is the funnest thing to be at home.