Father's Day Weekend

My blog is becoming "Things to do in Minneapolis with your kids" I'm always looking for places to check out on the weekends. Coloring, puzzles and the backyard swing can only fill up so much time.

Saturday morning we got the bikes out and rode to the Midtown Minneapolis farmer's market. This market has improved so much in the last couple of years. There are many more stalls. We bought some veggies, pepper jelly, and lamb stew meat. (Chris made an amazing lamb chili for dinner)

Here's our little girl waiting patiently for the puppet show to start.
The Open Eye Puppet Theater. They pull this puppet show around on their bikes and do public shows in parks, farmers' markets and even people's yards. They were pretty talented with the marionettes.
The show was 7 minutes. A perfect length for a toddler's attention span!

Father's Day started with a 5:30 am wake up call followed by a tantrum. Nothing like reminding Daddy that this is a job through thick and thin. Once we got through breakfast the day improved. Of course by 10 am when we went to the Stone Arch art fair, it seemed like the day was half over. Yet it became obvious that the rest of Minneapolis practices normal Sunday hours and was sleeping in. Penelope had the whole kids area to herself.
She loves Duplos! She didn't want daddy's help.

No playground at the art fair? That's okay. Penelope will create her own. Penelope is proud to be a minnesotan. She picked the Walleye Wagon sign to play with for 10 minutes.

As we walked over the Stone Arch Bridge I commented that I'd love to see the locks in action. Lo and behold, the doors opened and the Mississippi Queen came through the doors.

Such a serious face! She is unsure about walking barefoot...maybe she shouldn't kick her shoes off the moment we put her in the stroller.
She decided sand doesn't taste very good.

As a whole Father's Day was a good day. Penelope and I took long naps, while Chris watched a sci fi movie. I mowed the lawn and tended to his monster tomato plants. And Chris was completely off diaper duty. Penelope must have been sensing this gift because she hasn't pooped in 2 days and went 4 times today! I'll remember this next year for Mother's Day!