Butter and Egg Days

We went downtown Saturday for our city's Butter and Egg Days Festival. It's like most other small town festivals with a parade and food vendors and games for the kids. The only difference is the dairy and egg theme. And the cow chip throwing contest. Petaluma was once the egg capital of the country, and shipped its eggs down the Petaluma River 12 miles to the bay and San Francisco. It is still a big dairy town. Petaluma reminds me a little of the town I grew up in, if its Main St area had been kept alive, and if it was 45 minutes from the ocean :-)

Anja loved this orange she got from one of the floats sponsored by a grocery store:


At first she was a little scared of some of the floats, but eventually she thought the parade was fun.


She likes going anywhere she can see a lot of people and things. Especially other kids. And balloons. This little square where she's running has a store that always has balloons outside.


She opened a few more presents lately, including this handmade sweater from Aunt Mary - very cute!


And this dress-up pirate doll from Aunt Heather. This is her new favorite toy to carry around. She sleeps with it and then plays with it when she wakes up in her crib. She seems impressed by the pirate's sewn-on bellybutton.