Hear Ye, Hear Ye…

Ok so I was going to try and write something clever in the whole medieval/renaissance form of writing but that was way too much of a hassle for what it’s worth.

We’ve been looking for ways to get out of the house and stumbled onto a medieval encampment at one of the local museums.  They had demonstrations, sword fights, medieval pipe music, etc.  It was really cool and it was such a beautiful day to be out walking around on the nice green grass.  Here’s some pictures of us enjoying the festivities…

Tyler, Mom, Grandma, and some swordsmen

Here’s a close up of the sword fighting – Medieval Ultimate Fighting Championship (with foam swords)

We found the perfect store for Dad …… look for it…

If you didn’t get the joke, I’ll give you a hint.  It has nothing to do with what’s beneath the sign.

Here’s a nice picture of the family on the rock retaining wall. 

Say what you will about Maryland, they do have some pretty country side.  We can’t wait to see it in the Fall.

One of the goals of the festival was to use the costumes and demonstrations to teach kids about how things were hundreds of years ago.  What I learned is that there’s a fine line between teaching your kids about history and encouraging them to be one of those weird-o’s at a medieval festival.  I guess we’ll find out if we left on time in about 20 years if Tyler ends up like this guy…

Aside from the medieval festival, we’re spending our time waiting for baby Reagan to make her big debut.  Everything’s in place now if we could just convince Reagan to cooperate.  All in good time, I suppose.  We got some way cute blankets from Ali and Thesha’s mom has been staying with us ever since we left the hospital a few weeks ago.  Sorry to everyone who was hoping to see her on Mother’s Day.  I know it’s pretty selfish, but it sure was nice to have her with us.  We went to a local restaurant called Mamie’s to celebrate.  Yes, we celebrated Mamie’s Day with Mamie at Mamie’s.  The Maryland Cream of Crab Soup was awesome.

Tyler’s been really good with all the arrangements for Reagan.  In addition to touching Thesha’s belly and saying “bebe” he now says “Wreee” when we try to get him to say Reagan (kind of like how Chadli said “Is Wrobby Thewre?”).  It’ll be interesting to see how he is with her when she arrives.  Thesha was talking to him the other day about holding his baby sister in his arms and he said “Uh oh.”  Uh oh in deed, little man.