A few weekends ago when Tyler was out of town, Ben and I spent part of Sunday afternoon at the state fair. Not the most frugal way I've ever spent $19 ($3 surcharge for getting money at the wrong ATM, $5 parking, $8 admission, $3 for lemonade), but we needed a scenery change!
"Bring on the funnel cakes and bearded ladies!"
Yes, those things were there, as well as poorly constructed ferris wheels, chicken-on-a-stick and some sketchy people watching. But the main draw for me and my one-year old at the fair was the free petting zoo, which did not disappoint.
Just wasn't sure about him. "moooo?"
He did like the goats...and there were a LOT of goats.
Doesn't this one look like a British-speaking professor from Narnia?
Sticking out his tongue like the goats
After much prompting, he finally got brave enough to touch one. Hand as stiff as a board, he timidly reached out, touched maybe a hair on its nose and squealed triumphantly as he quickly retreated into my shoulder. It was all fun and games with the goats until he got his lovey a little too close to the fence and one of the baby goats decided it would make a nice snack.
"Oh no you didn't!"
After that, he preferred to "baah" and point from a safer distance. He also really liked watching the pony rides and helicopter as it lifted off, made a loop around the fair and landed a minute later...only $8 folks!
But what he liked most was my "fresh squeezed" lemonade, which I made the mistake of letting him taste.
Goes without saying that he had some energy to burn off after that 20 oz. sugar high, so we wrapped up our day at the Spain Park playground before welcoming daddy home!
On a side note, anyone else think it's time for Ben to get a new hat? Here it is almost exactly a year ago!
"Bring on the funnel cakes and bearded ladies!"Yes, those things were there, as well as poorly constructed ferris wheels, chicken-on-a-stick and some sketchy people watching. But the main draw for me and my one-year old at the fair was the free petting zoo, which did not disappoint.
Ben and the Longhorn
Just wasn't sure about him. "moooo?"He did like the goats...and there were a LOT of goats.
Doesn't this one look like a British-speaking professor from Narnia?
Sticking out his tongue like the goats
"Oh no you didn't!"(should've seen it coming, the way they were oggling lovey)
But what he liked most was my "fresh squeezed" lemonade, which I made the mistake of letting him taste.
Goes without saying that he had some energy to burn off after that 20 oz. sugar high, so we wrapped up our day at the Spain Park playground before welcoming daddy home!On a side note, anyone else think it's time for Ben to get a new hat? Here it is almost exactly a year ago!
3 comments:
He definitely needs a bigger hat for that sweet punkin' head!! Looks like a fun time at the Fair!
Sounds like you had fun! We took Lawson to the zoo to pet the goats. Took him a little while too. Then he stuck his finger up the goat's nose. Yeah...that's gross.
SO HAPPY FOR YOU. I watch the blog frequently and not sure how I missed that post! We cant wait. Ben's adorable and going to be such a great big brother!
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