Texas Book Festival

Every year in October, the Texas Book Festival is held on the grounds of the State Capitol Building here in Austin. Every year I say I'm going to go check it out - and this year, thanks to my kids, I actually did!
We actually started the weekend by going to see David Wiesner at the Austin Children's Museum on Friday afternoon. Leah really enjoyed hearing about how a lot of the ideas he uses in his books came from pictures he'd drawn as a child... you could almost see the gears turning as my little artist mulled that one over.

Then on Saturday morning the two older kids and I headed to the Capitol Building. Due to my faulty memory, we got there about an hour before the festival opened, so we walked across the grounds to the visitor's center to kill some time.

We had so much fun there exploring and dressing up that we almost forgot to go back!


But we did make it back in time to make a few crafts and...
see the Cat in the Hat!!!
(the reason for my kids push to attend this year)

We had a great time and will definitely make a trip back next year - maybe we'll even take the little boys too - although they had a great time at the "dinosaur museum" with Dad.