We'll make her a Texan yet
Annie is yet again graced by a visit from her grandparents Oma and Papa Joe. They came to see Annie and the Rodeo, but I imagine also to escape the unbelievably mean winter they've been having up north. We were happy to oblige. Annie really gets a kick from people who fawn over her relentlessly, so the grandparents are her new favorite fan club. We've been very busy showing them all the sights and sounds of Annie's Houston. First there was her music class, a meetup playgroup at our apartment complete with storytime, a trip to the zoo, to the Rodeo and to the Butterfly Sanctuary (Annie only gently screamed this time) at the Museum of Natural History. We're all exhausted. In fact, Annie started napping again, so anyone who knows my sleep-fighting daughter knows that we're telling the truth about our state of tuckered out-ness.
But back to being a Texan. You might have seen above my mention of the Rodeo, excuse me, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. It's huge, in a way only something in Texas could be huge. We felt we couldn't get the full Texas experience if we didn't attend at least once during our tenure here. We stuck to the kid-themed events and I think we only saw about 1/20 of what was at this thing. Sorry, no bucking broncos for us, but we did get Annie to pet some goats and sheep (which required a lasso itself if you know anything of her love/hate relationship with farm animals--see photo left). She also got to "work on a farm" harvesting various items and trading them in for a "dollar" which she then used at their general store to buy some cheese crackers. Awesome. Her favorite part, however, was hands-down the tractor exhibit put on by John Deer. There were farm-sized tractors for the kids to climb into and "drive" (they even had a screen to project a virtual farm scene drive-through to make the experience even more mind blowing for her). Sad to say, but it is rare I see this level of joy beaming from my daughter. The transition to full-on Texan though is not complete as Annie refused the invitation of a cowboy hat purchase for her. We'll work on it.
Annie is yet again graced by a visit from her grandparents Oma and Papa Joe. They came to see Annie and the Rodeo, but I imagine also to escape the unbelievably mean winter they've been having up north. We were happy to oblige. Annie really gets a kick from people who fawn over her relentlessly, so the grandparents are her new favorite fan club. We've been very busy showing them all the sights and sounds of Annie's Houston. First there was her music class, a meetup playgroup at our apartment complete with storytime, a trip to the zoo, to the Rodeo and to the Butterfly Sanctuary (Annie only gently screamed this time) at the Museum of Natural History. We're all exhausted. In fact, Annie started napping again, so anyone who knows my sleep-fighting daughter knows that we're telling the truth about our state of tuckered out-ness.
But back to being a Texan. You might have seen above my mention of the Rodeo, excuse me, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. It's huge, in a way only something in Texas could be huge. We felt we couldn't get the full Texas experience if we didn't attend at least once during our tenure here. We stuck to the kid-themed events and I think we only saw about 1/20 of what was at this thing. Sorry, no bucking broncos for us, but we did get Annie to pet some goats and sheep (which required a lasso itself if you know anything of her love/hate relationship with farm animals--see photo left). She also got to "work on a farm" harvesting various items and trading them in for a "dollar" which she then used at their general store to buy some cheese crackers. Awesome. Her favorite part, however, was hands-down the tractor exhibit put on by John Deer. There were farm-sized tractors for the kids to climb into and "drive" (they even had a screen to project a virtual farm scene drive-through to make the experience even more mind blowing for her). Sad to say, but it is rare I see this level of joy beaming from my daughter. The transition to full-on Texan though is not complete as Annie refused the invitation of a cowboy hat purchase for her. We'll work on it.
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