Indiana State Fair

Since Brendan is so into trains lately, we thought that it would be especially fun to ride the train to the Fair this year.

He got two previews of the train, as it was leaving the Fishers train station - one on Monday evening after having dinner at Megan & Allen & Gavin's house. He was definitely enthralled, although a little startled at how loud the horn was. He jumped a mile in my arms and buried his ears in his blanket. He kept asking "Where'd that blue engine go?" Katelyn didn't seem scared at all!

On Wednesday evening, we met up with Uncle Rob & Aunt Jenny for ice cream (& to see Baby Bobby's room!) and were in Fishers in time to see the train leave again. This time Katelyn was scared and cried...I felt bad. :( Brendan was still scared, but of course wanted to see it and kept talking about it too!

It was super hot & humid today, so we didn't think that we'd get to stay too long. We headed straight for the "Little Hands on the Farm" portion of the fair.


Brendan enjoyed looking at & petting the animals in the barn and of course the tractors!

Then we went over to the "Little Hands on the Farm" where he got to pretend to be a farmer. He really got into it!
Getting some eggs from the chickens...he calls eggs "apples" for some reason.
Then he fed some grain to the pigs & cows.

Harvested some vegetables from the garden.
Drove a tractor

Got some wool from a sheep
Milked a cow. Then they took all their goods to the market where they "sold" them and got some "Farm money" which they could use to buy some actual snacks to eat. Too cute!

Then we went to the FFA barn and got to feed some animals. He loved this too!


He thought that the pigs were super cute! He kept saying "Hi little piggies!"
Getting back on the train to go home
I'm riding a train!