North Carolina State Fair!

We missed the fair last year (for the first time in years) because of a certain Little Man's arrival. So we've been looking forward to the fair this year for quite a while! Daddy took off a few hours of work and Grandma came up to accompany us. Here are a few shots of Daddy and Joshua with the PBS characters (disclaimer: David is wearing an NC State shirt that my mom got him for his birthday since that's where he went to school; have no fear: we are a Tar Heel family all the way!)

I found this one quite fitting since I call Joshua my little monkey :)

Joshua kept wanting to pet Big Bird

Maybe he's trying to figure out what Curious George is looking at?

He's clearly losing interest...

And he's done.


Joshua enjoyed looking at all the animals: we saw cows, goats, sheep, chickens, ducks, turkeys, pigs, rabbits, and ponies. His look of interest:

Needless to say, Joshua was not content to be held or pushed in the stroller forever. So we had to find a little grassy area where he could play:

And Grandma is "sneaking up" on Joshua here (one of their favorite games), so that explains the smiles:

And we had to get some walking practice in with Grandma too:

We had a great time! And we definitely learned for the future that going on a weekday morning is the perfect time. We got there a little before 9:00am, got great parking, and there were no big crowds. When we were leaving around noon, there were a lot of people coming in, so we timed it just right! And Joshua took a 3 hr 15 minute nap when we got home, so he must have had a good time too :)