savannah children's book festival

saturday we headed to the savannah children's book festival in forsyth park.

we had a tote full of some of our favorite bedtime stories...the llama llama books, the skippyjon jones books, and pirates don't change diapers, as well as a camera and a sharpie for when we met the authors.

the girls were SO excited. especially when we met some of their favorite characters.

as you can see, sadie was suspicious. as usual.

"get your stinkin' llama paws off of me."

we made our way to the main stage,

where the girls listened to judy schachner and anna dewdney speak.

it was so cool...they read their books and then answered questions.harper was WAY into it.

i may or may not have recited all of the words to llama llama red pajama without looking at harper's book.

after each author read, they made their way to the author tent, where you could wait in (MASSIVE) lines to meet them and get their autograph.

we quickly went over to anna dewdney's tent (huge lllama llama fans in our house) and waited for a long time, even though we were towards the front of the line.

i'm pretty sure the wait had something to do with the older couple at the front of the line that had at least 3292128429340238420384023840238 books for her to sign, and totally looked like a couple out of a saturday live skit. they were probably her biggest fans. heee.

eventually we got up to the table. and the girls were SO cute and polite.

she told them how precious they were and also that they were very precocious. hahahahah! sadie kept saying "LLAMA LLAMA MAD AT MAMA!!!!" and making her laugh.

and miss h, as usual, was being the queeeeen of TMI. telling her goodness knows what. her middle name, her baby sister's names, her favorite snack? who knows.

we had an awesome time. i am loving living here SO SO much. i'm already dreading the day we have to leave!

well shoot! there was a layout here, but i received emails from several of you reminding (correcting???) me that the phrase is "all of a sudden" not "all of the sudden". believe it or not, i know that...i blame it on VERY tired preggers  brain. luckily it was easy as pie to correct the title. i'll repost it later!

hope you have a beautiful monday!!

xxo

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Comments

[Fiona]

Oh, you got to meet Max from Max and Ruby? I'm so jealous! Those are one of my all time favourite children's books. Laugh out loud funny. In fact, Max is kind of like your Sadie I think?!

Fee (in Australia)

[Deborah]

You got some great pictures! There were a ton of people out at the Park wasn't there? You really should take your girls to Disney on Ice this weekend!!

[Jessica R.]

OH my! My daughter would have LOVED this. So exciting for them!!! I wish we had something like that here. So jealous!

[Jessica]

I love the picture of H talking with the author. My kids are so darn shy...they would probably have just stood there twiddling their thumbs, not making a peep. Looks like a great event! Have a great day! :)

[Meghann]

Looks like you guys had a lot of fun! So glad that you're loving Savannah!

[C. Rayevich]

awww that would be sooo much fun!! my daughter would have loved that too
thanks for sharing steph!
happy monday
xo

[Laura]

Oh wow, that looks like such an awesome time! I wish we had something like that here! I know my youngest, Mikey would love it! I love the look on Harper's face in the last pic where she's just looking at the author! Too funny! Have a great week! :)

[Sheila McGowan]

We are BIG fans of Llama Llama at our house as well. How exciting for the girls! We vaca'd at Tybee Island this year and spent one HOT day down by the river in Savannah and we really loved that town. I want to come back on a less HOT, HUMID day and enjoy walking around more.

[Joanna]

Oh, good! I was hoping you'd post more about the book festival! Wish I was there!

[Becky Williams]

We LOVE the Llama Llama series and my kids LOVE Max & Ruby and Toot & Puddle. My 4 year old was so excited to see these pictures! It sounds like such a fun time.

[Jenni Hufford]

HOW FUN! We love Llama Llama too!

[Michelle Unruh]

I am so envious of all there is to do there. I don't think there is that much up here in Minneapolis/St. Paul. It would be so fun to bring Ben to something like that. What a fun day! I love the pics!! Adorable page of little Miss Hamburger!! Just love it!!!

[Michelle Unruh]

Oh, and in the Sunday paper last week.. the whole front page was about I want to say St. Simone's Island,GA?? That sound right?? I threw out the section. But.. pretty!!!! You live in such a beautiful place!!

[summer]

oh goodness, how sweet is that? what an amazing experience for your girls, I absolutely love the photos! at least these were the real authors, I would go around asking any older gentleman with a beard if he was Gary Paulsen (my favorite author at the time), ha ha! so awesome to see a family that loves reading!

[pegg]

Your kiddos are the cutest. Sadie especially - I like her 'tude. :) What is it with Sadies - they are always the cutest things! I know another little Sadie girl and she is the cutest thing ever. My fiance and I just love her.

[Jen Thompson]

oh my goodness my daughter would FREAK out at those costumes lol She'd be torn between having fun with books and being terrified at the same time! Hee hee.
Looks like we'll have to check out those llama llama books, I always like suggestions for new childrens books :)

[Angie]

Those girls are soooo lucky. I love Skippy Jon Jones!
That is a big time perk for living in a big city. We would never see any of this in small town Wisconsin. And Kudos to you for hauling 2 little girls around pregnant with twins. I can only imagine you were on your feet quite awhile.

[nitasha]

I love your photos...your girls are precious! I just love family days like these...that's what it's all about! WOW...people really comment on typos or "incorrect" phrases...really? Anyway...sure your LO was fab just the way it was!

[bluemoon]

Two x cute! Those grandparents with all the books are probably getting them signed for Christmas gifts for all their grandchildren.

[Ginny C.]

I told you that you would love Savannah! This town is so amazing. We are lucky to live here. Be sure to check the Christmas activities. The photos of the girls were so sweet,but I hope you had a chair to sit in.

[lisadm]

Great pics! We love the llama llama books also. I just receive the newest llama llama book in the mail for my girls and can't wait to read it to them.