Revel

Whew, long time no blog and now I'm so far behind that I'm feeling overwhelmed...nonetheless, here we go. The Revel is my favorite local festival, celebrating the arts. Not that my ladies did much art celebrating but the kid activities were fun too. We went several times during the week because this is the only time of the year that the kids get to go to a their sized grocery store and make sand art--so how could one visit possibly be enough, right? The grocery store is fully equipped with kid sized buggys and every food/home item imaginable. The big kids get a list and hunt down the groceries on the list and the little kids just see how many items they can fit in their buggy. When they're done they head to the cashiers to 'ring' them up. Josie insisted on doing the self checkout and rang up every item without the aid of the cashier. Such a big girl. Then we moved on to the sand art area. Liv has about half a dozen of these on the shelves, but this was Josie's first year to participate. Liv rushed through hers and Josie put the grains of sand in one at a time...very telling on their personalities. After a quick funnel cake break, the girls were ready for face paint. Josie has seen her sister get her face painted but has always opted to not join her. The Revel was her first time to try it and she did fine--she chose a purple flower and pointed it out to everyone she saw until bathtime later that night. Liv got lucky and got 2 pictures. I went back later for some Mommy time so I could actually check out the booths. I got a piece of pottery from my fave pottery people and some jelly. And I lunched with Teddy...blackened catfish on dirty rice--yes, please!

Already looking forward to next year's Revel!