Nature Fair at the Park with Dad

So, way back in May we (even daddy!) went to a Nature Fair at a local botanical garden. We try to get out and do something as a family one time a week. This helps us stay connected to each other and have fun too!

Leach Botanical Garden is a beautiful place. I hope to go back again soon, so I can really explore the place. Our trip was fairly quick, and focused on Cohen, so I didn't really get to take in all it had to offer.

To get up to where the fair was being held we got to walk up this windy trail with beauty all around us. We actually got lost on the way up. :)


There were lots of booths all having to do with nature in some way. At this one, Cohen got to plant a little plant in a planter (that sure sounds funny) and take it home. It initially went through some shock, and I thought it wouldn't survive, but now it's nearly August and it's thriving on our balcony. Cohen's favorite part about this was digging in the dirt, of course.


Ice cream for 25 cents. Wow! Even though it was a little chilly, we couldn't resist letting Cohen have some.

One of the boothes had skulls from local wild animals. Hooray, this means Josh had fun too! He was interested in how the boney structures of the skull in animals differ or resemble the human skull. He's in school studying the human body.... can you blame him?

So then, he just had to teach the ice cream licking Cohen all about it. Parker's taking it all in too, I'm sure of it.

He got to make a pine cone animal. Fun. He still has tiny little plastic bugs from this event.

What a nice stranger to take our picture for us.

Then, back down the path to the parking lot. When I looked up this is what I saw. It's beautiful, isn't it?! When people ask me how I like Oregon, I say it's beautiful. It really is. I love it. (This is also an attempt to avoid being negative about the rain!)

Fun path!

The fair hosted a little band while we were there. Cohen loved this part the most by far. We stopped to go back the band between everything we did. My little Cohen loves music, and dancing, and banjos, and guitars, etc. This is normal for me, but perhaps weird for other people.