A weekend with Laura's in-law's

Craig's parents came and visited last weekend and Grandma Cindy got all excited about seeing her "Mr. Precious." Yes, that's what she calls Craig. It's disturbing. Ok, not really. She calls Harrison that and Grandpa Phil makes fun of her mercilessly for it.
Saturday morning we got up and headed to the massive Dane County Farmer's Market on the capitol square. If we're home on a weekend, we usually head there. It's fun with lots of delicious food, including the famous hot and spicy cheese bread, pictured in the background of the above photo. It's a big affair and we had to take a break to feed Harrison, which was nice because we got to sit around and watch all the interesting people and listen to the street musicians.

After wrapping up at the market we headed over to the Vilas Zoo, which is awesome because it's free. We took Harrison on a spin on the carousel, which he really seemed to enjoy.

After that we perused the many animals on exhibition in the zoo. Harrison took little interest in the animals. Not even the awesome red necked wallaby's, which had Craig singing a revised version of "Up Against the Wall Red Neck Mother."



After the zoo, we headed over to Grandpa Phil's favorite Madison area restaurant, The Great Dane, for some delicious brewed on site beers and appetizers.

Harrison hates fruit. Like really hates it. But Laura ordered a beer that came with a big slice of watermelon, so we broke of a chunk for Harrison and he attacked it. He even cried when we took away the fruit holder thing to refill it with more watermelon. So now Harrison likes one kind of fruit. It's a start.

After that we headed home where we spent a relaxing afternoon on the back deck, listening to the Brewers stink one up and bbq'ing some of Craig's semi-famous ribs.

Harrison really impressed Grandma and Grandpa with his burgeoning walking skills.

After Grandma and Grandpa left Sunday morning we took advantage of the warm weather and inflated Harrison's new kiddie pool. Harrison absolutely loved it, he's taking to the water with aplomb and we're hoping this is the start of a long and beautiful friendship between Harrison and water.