chicago in a day

 

our trip to chicago treated us mighty fine last week, even if we were only in town for a day! 

max has seen all different parts of the city but we had never taken him to the navy pier to eat sweets and watch sail boats and ooh and ahh at the skyline behind us. and so that's what we did!

 

oh how he loved it...with all the people watching and "beach birds" and tallest tall buildings all around. we rode up in the ferris wheel and squealed at how lucky we were to have such beautiful weather and such a fantastic view. we walked and walked and legoland-ed and ate way too much mcdonalds. it was a true vacation.

 

and such a treat to get to pack up the car and be with my guys on a quick adventure...seeing sights and smelling different air. it was just what i needed.

carnival

max and i went to a little pop up carnival saturday...the first of the summer season for us!

bub is finally tall enough this year to ride big kid rides...which made my heart skip and ache all at the same time. 

and despite him almost fainting and falling out of the orbiter ride and me getting denied the ferris wheel because my belly was too big...we had a real time! cotton candy and nostalgic smells and as many prizes as our arms could carry.

it has my fingers itching for more good summer things to come...

whirly twirly

i almost left my boys behind to run away with the traveling carnival on monday...i would set sail to sleep under the ferris wheel and learn the secrets of the lemonade shake up stand...catch up on my tan and apprentice under the cat-calling ring toss man. 

it all sounded so wonderful until the boy running the rock n' roll cadillac ride told me he cleaned up puke 3 times a day. 

 

but boy oh boy do i love carnivals!

this week is flit flying right by...and i'm not too happy about it. 

today is my little man's last day of 6. tomorrow he turns 7, then 8, then 30.

 we're throwing him a baseball party this weekend.

there's been lots of sewing and painting and dreaming up wild ideas going on around here lately...

here's a little peek at the photo cutout board i'm painting...

lots to do before saturday...

but today...today is devoted to going out and crossing things off max's 6 year old bucket list. i tried to add a picnic in and matt shamed me interfering with the list. haha. 

a girl can try can't she?