Mayfest

So I guess every year in Tulsa they have a big arts and crafts festivle called Mayfest. They shut down all the streets of downtown Tulsa and people come and set up booths to display and sell their art/craft. There are also multiple stages set up all over for performers and food vendors. It sounded like a lot of fun so we decided to go.

We ended up parking near the Kids Zone that they had. There was a stage set up there for family/kid performers, a booth sponsored by the geological society and museum that's nearby where the kids could participate in an archeological dig, a magician, a man making balloon animals, a huge bubble blower, and multiple booths set up by the Tulsa Childrens Hospital. The girls had a blast at that one. They had little white teddy bears that the kids could color on with fabric markers. After the kids finished coloring their bears, you took them to the next booth where each of them got a pink canvas bag with a coloring book and crayons from the Childrens Hospital, and they got to name their bears. After naming their bears, they went to the next booth where they "xrayed" the kids bears (a pretend xray machine and a pretend xray picture-it was really cute) and the kids could choose which part of their bear was hurt and they wrapped that part up. The last booth they got to go to was sponsored by the NICU where the nurses from the NICU had preemie diapers out for display and talked to the kids about the tiny babies they take care of, and how some of them were only as big as the bears they were giving the kids. They also gave each of the kids a baby bottle filled with jelly beans for their bears, and they had toy doctor kits out for the kids to examine their bears.

These are the girls bears. Gwen decided to give her bear blue circles around her eyes, and named her bear Flower, and decided that Flower's leg was hurt and that's what needed to be fixed. Gracie named her bear Cookie and had to make sure every inch of her bear was colored with different colors, and decided that Cookie's arm was hurt and that's what needed to be fixed (and then later pulled the bandage off in the car on the way home). Georgia isn't too creative with naming her stuffed animals yet...she named her bear Bear. She did a good job coloring Bear, but got bored after about 15 minutes. She too decided that Bear's arm was hurt. The girls had so much fun with their bears (and still do).



We had giant corndogs (Gwen's request) and fresh lemonade for lunch, and then wandered around and looked at all the booths. There were some things that Rob and I really liked, but they were really expensive, so we didn't end up buying anything. We did get ice cream though, and right before we left the girls noticed that the State Farm booth was doing face painting, so we stood in line for that and each of the girls sat patiently while they had their faces painted.

They had a big sign up showing what designs they would do. Georgia had a really hard time deciding what she wanted. At first, she wanted a spiderman mask painted on her face (which we didn't think she would sit for). Then she started going back and forth between spiderman and having elmo painted on her cheek. Finally, right when it was her turn, she decided that she wanted to be a pretty princess (which is something she says every time she wears a skirt or dress-"Mommy, I a pwetty pwincess!"). They had a bunch of different princess paintings to pick from, but since Georgia was having such a hard time deciding, they just gave her what they called the Star Princess Tiara. Georgia loved it.



Gracie had a hard time deciding too, but it was because she really wanted her face painted like a zebra (there was a tiger, cat, dog, and panda, so I guess she thought maybe they'd do a zebra too). We kept telling her there was no Zebra, so finally she decided that she wanted a green gecko painted on her face to match her green shirt. She too loved her gecko.

Gwen however knew instantly, after taking one look at the display board, what she wanted. She wanted a shark, and nothing we showed her changed her mind. Her reasoning? She had never had a shark painted on her face before and wanted to have one now...hahaha. She loved the shark though and was really disappointed that she couldn't skip her bath that night and wear it to church the next morning.

Despite the bugs and tornado warnings, we are having a great time finding new things to explore and do as a family!!