The first weekend in August is Threshing Days time in my small hometown. Cousin Rylee came with her moms to watch the parade and get some candy.
The boys had been anticipating this parade for days. It's really funny considering that the parade is mostly old tractors. But, old tractors are interesting to my children.
We got there just about the time the parade was starting so all the shady spots were taken. It was H.O.T. Oh my. I was drenched by the end and it was only when the parade was over that Noah noticed how hot he was.
Ben officiated at a MAYB (basketball) tournament all weekend, so it was just me and the boys for all the festivities. I didn't get too many parade pics because of all the candy we had to pick up and watching the kids.
We headed to the Low German meal for lunch for verenike, sausage and some much needed air conditioning. We were like a 3 ring circus getting our food. Two boys, one mom, three plates, one empty stroller, three drinks, three sets of silverware and a long line of people waiting for me to get out of the way! Thankfully, we made it to our table in one piece without spilling anything.
On to the museum!
There's a wonderful kids area at Threshing Days with fun things to make, do, build, etc. My boys like to scoop corn and that's about it. When we went back on Sunday, Noah did try to learn how to make a paper boat. We watched it float for a while and then he decided to destroy it. Lovely.
We watched the threshing on Saturday and on Sunday. It was around 100 degrees out, but my boys were DETERMINED to see this. I have to admit, it's fascinating to watch and imagine how farming used to be done.
On Sunday, we stuck around long enough to watch them move this wagon over to an old-fashioned John Deere agar to move the grain into an old Ford truck. We had been outside for a good hour already and the second time a belt slipped on the agar bringing the whole production to another halt I called it quits. Noah just about lost it and I ended up carrying him to the car on my shoulders.
But, back to Saturday, I got to babysit Rylee in the evening and we had such a good time with her. She's the easiest child to care for. She pretty much kept herself busy moving items from one spot to another. When we were outside, she got out one ball after another and then she put away one ball after another.
After baths, all three kids had a snack and then Rylee went right to sleep in the pack-n-play. Love you little Rylee! Hopefully, someday we'll keep her at our house overnight. When Levi woke up the next morning he asked me if Rylee was awake yet or not and started to go look for her in the basement. :-)
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