Kelly has discovered that it is much more fun sitting in the DRIVER's seat of the car (vs. strapped safely into her carseat in the back seat). One day she just climbed in and started "driving", well that is, mimicking what we do when me & Gary drive I think. She looks like a real natural and was even making the "rhummm, rhummm, ehhhrrrr" sounds as she gripped and turned the steering wheel. She had me & Gary right down to flipping thru the radio stations! But don't worry, I'm not going to pull a Britney! I've got a good 13 years yet to worry about her getting behind the wheel and on the road for real (or maybe 11 years if she is like her mom and sneaks her parents car out in the middle of the night!). I'm already sweatin' just thinkin'about it. 
Last weekend Kelly & I took a little "road trip" out to visit our friends Mary & Jeff and their daughter, Devyn, who will be 3 in November. 
They live in Ramona, which is a good 45 minute drive from Encinitas and is the "high country desert" of San Diego - feels like I'm out in the country when I'm there, but it is a really nice getaway. We went to the Ramona Harvest Festival which was like a mini traveling fair, complete with about 6 "rides", craft booths, face painting, a pumpkin patch, food, a beer garden w/live music, all complete with hay on the ground!
Probably what the Del Mar Fair (uh, oh yeah, the San Diego Fair!) was about 30+ years ago - QUAINT and affordable! The girls had a blast on the Jumpy-jump, the "flying bee" ride, and the giant super slide. I had volunteered to take them both up and was actually a bit scared myself once I got to the top (it was a couple stories or more high!), but I couldn't hold either of them back as they slid right down without a second thought - Fearless! We had a great time and look forward to our next visit! 
2 comments:
Are you nuts? NEVER disclose facts about your childhood like sneaking your parents' car out at age 13! Kelly will be reading this one day - probably when she's 13. Geez!
How cute that she mocks your changing the radio channels. Just wait until she's changing them to HER stations...
Sure Kim, You said it was some other lady letting there kid drive the car. We come to find out that you were giving yourself dirty looks and Kelly was actually the driver :)
Jen
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