All they want for Christmas is a John Deere?

Last Saturday we left our little city here in Eastern Washington and drove an hour west to Union Gap Washington.  Union Gap, is just next to Yakima which is an agricultural hub of this area.  The valley surrounding Yakima produces way over half of the world's hops (fun fact).  It fittingly has an antique farm implement museum.  Each year the museum puts on an antique power show.  We saw an ad on TV that stated there would be lots of old tractors and free train rides for kids....  sounded like something the boys would dig.  The whole drive there Tommy would point to the road and say "tractors over there."  When we got there there were thousands of old tractors,  steam engines,  parts, junk and old men.  There was also a huge flea market too.  Aaron said he'd never seen a flea market for guys....  loyal readers are probably thinking back to my Farm Chicks post and laughing.  The event was interesting for a 32 year old.  Exceptionally interesting to a 2 1/2 year old.  We spent three hours there and then got an antique burger in town.  Well,  the burger was fresh but the drive in was very very old.  Here's some pics from our adventure.  After I finish this post I'm going to order a John Deere shirt I saw for the boys and maybe Rachel.... 

Aaron and the two strollers.

This contraption was powering an ice cream maker.  

 

 

Going to watch the threshing show.  And we thought twins were hard work! 

 

Thomas, Rachel (Aaron was really close by mom) and Benjamin.  You know Ben is having a good time taking it all in when he frowns like this....  =)

"Shouldn't I be in a car seat?"

She's Been Out for Nine Months Now!

Our Rachel is nine months old now and we can't believe how fast she's grown.  And I really mean GROWN.  She's in the 90 and 95 percentiles for weight and length.  She weighs in at 22 pounds and is 29 inches long.  She's a ridiculously happy baby and has brought our family great joy.  She has 2 1/4 teeth and prefers table foods she can pick up to being spooned baby food.  When she's had enough pureed flavor of the day she waves her arms in front of her face slapping the food out of the spoon!  It was funny the first ten times.....  Rachel may be our first non crawler-  we'll see.  She turns around in circles on her bottom and pirouettes herself around the room.  She's so content if her brothers are around that she'll just sit and watch and play with her toys for quite a long time. 

Inspecting Grandma's flowers. 

Destroying Daddy's Chemical and Engineering News.  It's OK,  Mommy doesn't understand it either! By the constantly moving hands and the look in her eye, we believe we're going to have a very busy toddler.  She's in good company.

Happy 9th Anniversary.

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