This morning, Grammy Julie and I took AJ to the Des Moines Downtown Farmers Market. This is the Mothership of all Farmers Markets--8 city blocks, 200+ vendors and 30,000 people. It even has its own website: http://www.desmoinesfarmersmarket.com/. They have everything from handmade Polish pottery to Salvadorian breakfast sandwiches. Oh yeah, and tons of farm fresh fruits & veggies.
Since this is a blog about AJ, rather than a commercial for Iowa tourism, I will try to include more about his experience here. There is an incredibly short window of opportunity between AJ's last feeding, diaper change & nap and the next feeding, diaper change & nap (we're talking 1.5 to 2 hours, tops) and this short window is even shorter in the afternoon when the baby is more tired. So I try to do big outings in the morning when possible. This is made easier by the fact that babies wake up incredibly early, and I am itching to get out of the house by 9:30 a.m. (which was considered an ungodly hour on the weekends in my pre-baby life).
This morning at the market, AJ slept in his stroller for the first hour we were there, allowing me and mom to enjoy a coffee and pecan roll at Java Joe's while sitting down (since AJ has been born, much more food has been consumed while pushing the stroller with one hand) and to get some shopping done. Once he woke up, he was into looking at the people for about 15 minutes or so and then was ready to hightail it out of there. The pictures from top to bottom are a look down the main drag at the farmers market, a snap of a cute booth by Blue Gate Farm and one of Grammy Julie with AJ.
*This post was originally titled The Mothership of Farmers Markets, but as my friend, S, accurately pointed out, this seemed to imply that the post was about moms. I think I meant the Mother Ship. I changed the title to avoid confusion.
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wait a second, this blog is about mommy not aj! (when i saw the title of this post)
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