Lincoln Log Cabin

We went to Pioneer Days at Lincoln Log Cabin this weekend.  Some of Abraham Lincoln's family lived there years ago. It's a great place to take our family.  It has enough neat things to look at so it is interesting for the older kids, yet it is small enough that the little kids can have fun without us having to worry about them getting seperated from us.  They had some clothespins and scraps of fabric and yarn for the kids to make little clothespin dolls - a simple little toy, but the younger kids carried them around all weekend.  The boys made soldiers out of theirs :)  They got to play some games from the time period of the cabins, and Emily even made it into the local university's newspaper 

Fall Festival

Emily Erickson, 9, of Shelbyville, learns to play the game Graces with the help of Maren McKee, a graduate student in historical administration, at the Fall Festival at the Lincoln Log Cabin Oct. 1. Graces was a popular game in the 19th century, where girls would send a ribboned hoop through the air to each other and catch the hoop on wooden sticks or wands.

We knew that there were a lot of great places to get pictures of the kids there, so we went prepared to snap some shots.  We took over 600 pictures!  We did manage to get a few good ones, but we had to laugh at some of the faces they made when we were looking at them later.  Lincoln and Garrett are especially hard to get to cooperate right now.  I think Garrett would do alright, but he kept checking out Lincoln's faces to see what he should be doing...  The last time we got pictures to put up on the wall were from before Garrett was born, so since the kids have changed and grown so much since then, I thought it was about time to try to get some new ones up.