Pow Wow

The second weekend of June is always the Homecoming of the Three Fires pow wow at Riverside Park, and is one of my favorites. It's always fun to see old friends and practice some photography. Since it didn't start until 1:00, we decided to forgo Rainah's nap and get there when it started. We actually got there early and walked around the trader's tables and had some amazing fry bread, Indian tacos, and fry bread dogs. It was a beautiful day, but the "summer snow" was in full force and started to get a bit irritating to my eyes.
Rainah had a rough time and was obviously tired. She wanted to be carried around the whole time and was pretty whiny. I didn't have the opportunity to take any pictures, but we did dance around the circle once. Don got a few shots of that:





She wasn't interested in walking/dancing herself in the circle, but when we were walking around, she would occasionally stop and bob up and down to the beat of the drum.

Needless to say, we didn't get to stay long and she fell asleep almost immediately in the car.

When we got back home she was off and running, though, and back to her favorite thing: chalk. :)


































The next American Gladiator

Children's Garden

Since we are members of the Children's Museum, we get reciprocal membership with Frederik Meijer Gardens during May. Unfortunately, we have been so busy this month, we didn't have time to go until today. It was a perfect day to go weather-wise. There were a TON of school groups there, though, which made it a bit annoying at times... with grade-schoolers as far as the eye could see running around the children's gardens, but Rainah kept up and I think only got knocked over once- it didn't even phase her.
Of course, her favorite thing was playing in the gravel pit... had a hard time getting her out of there! But she had a great time and fell asleep on the way home in the car.
As we were leaving we walked by a mom with 2 kids in a stroller and the kid in the front had a monkey backpack. Rainah walked right up and started doing her monkey impression. The mom asked her is she was a chicken, and I pointed at the monkey and said, "she's being a monkey". She cracked up.




Rainah loved watching all the other kids from the school groups






















Can't pass by a mirror without walking up to it (and kissing it)










Playing in the treehouse












In the giant bird's nest




Playing in the gravel pit










Takin a cracker break












Smelling the flowers on our way out