Super Fun Weekend

Saturday we decided to pack the kids and browse around the Augusta Library for the first Augusta-Richmond County Literary Festival. I love living in cozy North Augusta & having cool events just across the river. A little bit of culture is a fabulous thing!

Here is the old library...

And here is the new library just across the street..

The festival was rumored to have sixty plus authors ready to talk about their books & sign. When we arrived, I noticed lots of empty tables. Bummer. The children's department had the old school showing of The Lorax so Alex & Ezra were quite entertained for awhile with other little kids. In theater's now, the NEW Lorax is making his debut with Danny Devito as the Lorax! I really want this to be Alex's first movie at the theater. 

How cute is he??? Maybe I can talk Kane into going along with me. I think both my monkeys would sit through it. When I taught 7th grade Going Green at Seminole Middle school, I incorporated The Lorax into our curriculum at the end of the school year. The kids enjoyed watching the film in class & writing an essay about it. 

I miss that class. Teaching middle school kids about the environmental was super fun!

Anyway, back to the literary festival, I found a table with an author by the name of Bob Young. The book jacket caught my eye because it had a train depicted on the front. Titled, The Treasure Train, it looked like something my Dad would enjoy. I have fond memories of us setting up his model trains in our Michigan City, IN basement together. After speaking with the author & learning it is a book about trains & confederate civil war history, I thought it would be the perfect birthday gift. I had the author sign it "General" too!

Boy did he get a kick out of that grandpa name. Who wouldn't?

I didn't find anything interesting for me particularly at the festival & neither did Kane. We stopped my Publix & picked up some tasty subs for lunch and that was that!

Sunday we visited the Morris Museum of Art in downtown Augusta. I noticed in the Augusta Family Magazine a posting for the monthly Artrageous! Family Sunday event. The Super Fun Show was making a stop in Augusta, with its award-winning performance of songs, stories, and interactive good times at 2 pm. 

Was it worth skipping nap time to make the show at 2 pm? YES!

The little performance was soooo cute! Alex had a ball grooving and shaking and singing along. Ezra was content to sit in stroller in the first row and take all the commotion in. Totally geared for toddlers, a peppy young girl (probably college age) did a fantastic job entertaining a bunch of kids for 45 minutes. 

And that is not an easy task! Here is the The Super Fun Show Song...

 Here is a video of Alex not sitting down during the alphabet song:

Apparently the creator, Shawn Brown, has a ton of super fun music for little kids to brush their teeth to, dance, clean up, etc. Needless to say, we had a super fun time :)

The Super Fun Show CD by Shawn Brown