Don’t eat the broccoli!

In between meeting lots of relatives, we took Lilia to the Louisiana State Fair where she got to check out all sorts of cool animals she’s never seen before like camels, wallabies, alligators, a kangaroo and a zebra. We enjoyed some of her old favorites like goats, giraffes, and an elephant, and we were able to pet and feed a llama.

Still the highlight for her may well have been the agriculture display. There was a coloring station where we rubbed crayons over plates to create leaf art and matched them to leaf posters of native trees.

A bin was set up with potatoes, carrots and onions buried in the “ground” and scoops were provided for the kids to dig them out as you would if they had actually been growing there.

They also had several vegetable bins where you could see what lettuce, green beans, tomatoes and other vegetables looked like growing on the vines. We were all particularly impressed by the broccoli display. Lilia is a fan of broccoli “trees” so I pointed it out to her and she checked it out excitedly. I was trying to get a picture of her with it, so I went around to the other side of the bin and she started to follow me so I asked her what it smelled like to get her to stay a moment longer. She sniffed it and I asked her if she liked broccoli and next thing I knew, she took a big ol’ bite of broccoli right off the display stalk, chewed it and swallowed it! We were all a bit too far to stop her, besides, she was fast and as Adam pointed out I was more concerned with getting the picture than protecting the display. Oops! Sorry kid, but don’t eat the broccoli!