So, on another note, while we were driving to the party, an off-duty Holly Springs fireman pulled over to say ‘hi.’  He told Mom to bring me down to the fire station this week to check out the real fire trucks!!!!!!!  OMG!  And it’s not even my birthday!

We ended up checking out of the party early, so that we could head home for nap time.  Mom said it was important to go down for our nap on time time today because we had to head to Noah and Truman’s house after nap.  We were going for a cookout, and Mom made brownies to bring along.  Mmmmm….brownies.

Pumpkins

Today was big.  And when I say big, I means BIG.  We started with dad’s homemade blueberry pancakes, and ended by watching the end of Season 1 of The Office.  Now I’ll fill in the blanks for you.

After breakfast we got dressed and headed out to Ken’s Korny Corn Maze in Garner.  They had a totally awesome Monster Truck & Tractor wooden play structure, a rope maze, a straw maze, a gourd checkerboard and mini golf.   But the best part of all was the jumpy zone.  They gave me a smiley face hand stamp……Oooooo……that meant I could jump all day long if I wanted too.  See?

My smiley faces

We even got take a hayride through the farm.  We rounded the corn field, went way out back and saw the creepy Corn Maze Crypt that they use at Halloween, then rounded by the goats.  Really cool.

After the hayride we went back to play on the Monster Truck again for a while.   I know there’s got to be a way to get Daddy to make one of these in our back yard.  Hmmm…will have to give that idea some serious thought.

The only thing we didn’t do while we were there was the Corn Maze.  Apparently it takes quite a while to get through it and Mom and Dad didn’t think I was old enough to enjoy it.  So I guess we’ll just save that for next year!

Next we went home, had some lunch and took a nap.  Dad was the winner of the nap time award today, so he got to sleep with me.  Yeah Dad!

After we woke up we all took a ride to Home Depot to get some MDF to make my new bed.  Dad’s going to make me a platform bed with storage cubbies underneath, for all my toys and books.  Mom’s excited because she said she’s too old and creaky to be laying down on a mattress on the floor, when she lays down to snuggle me.

Dad started working on it as soon as we got home.  I thought this would be a good opportunity to take my Fire Truck out for a ride.  I hopped in, turned on the ignition and rammed it straight into the house.  Did I mention that this was my first solo driving expedition?  Mmmm….Dad started shrieking and grabbed the plant stand that was tipping over, with one hand, and grabbed the front end of the truck with the other hand.  All while I kept the gas pedal floored.   He kept screaming “Stop! Stop! Stop!”  No hablo Ingles.  Sorry dude.

That’s when Mom stepped in and steered me off toward the end of the cul-de-sac.  All my friends were out playing down there.  I swung by Sean’s house to pick him up and we cruised the loop for a while, waving at all the kids on the sidewalk who were watching with envy.

When it started to get dark we finally cruised on home for dinner.  Dad was still out sanding the edges of the pieces of my bed so me and Mom went inside and had dinner.  After dinner I snuck outside for one last, quick ride……Right Through Mom’s Garden.  This driving and steering stuff is much trickier than it looks.

Me and Patrick eating sno-balls

My brother Patrick is here this week and he really wanted a sno-ball, so Dad took us there this afternoon.

Just in case you are part of the uninitiated, sno-balls are kind of like a sno-cone, only even more awesome because they come in flavors like toothpaste and pickle.

We had a small problem with the kid behind the counter, he was a Yankee’s fan, but I guess even the mentally handicapped need work. He was a really nice guy, for a Yankees fan, and I’m pretty sure he gave me an extra squirt of orange in mine.

Packy Joe ordered lemon-lime and the guy offered to top it off with some sort of marshmallow goo… YES PLEASE!

Everything seemed to be going well, I was eating mine, Packy was eating his and we were getting most of it in our mouth. Then I decided to mix my little bit of orange in with Packy’s lemon-lime.

Good Lord, you’d have thought I stabbed him with a hunting knife! I mean, sure I spilled about 1/2 of it on his lap, but I think the new flavor would have rocked!

Dad decided that we had eaten enough “frozen sugar water” and packed us into the truck all sticky… did I mention my brother was all pouty? Pffft, old kids are so up-tight.

In the barn

Let’s get one thing straight, not all “fun days out” are the same.

Saturday mom plans a day for us way out in Siler City at the Celebrity Dairy farm. I was expecting to see Angelina Jolie or maybe Spiderman, but it appears they pulled the old bait and switch, because it was mostly just goats.

An “Open Barn” party had the potential of being fun, but it was kinda lame. After feeding the goats a handful of hay there wasn’t much left to do. We stared at some pigs sleeping and saw a far off llama.

I was thinking that mom and dad were going to force me to try goat cheese or wash my hands with goat soap or something, but none of that happened. The lunch offering was chile con tofu! I’m not kidding.

We killed about an hour there, mostly taking photos of me