First Family Outing

We took our first family outing tonight. Since October is the season of the fair, that's where we went. It was a very uninteresting trip and that's how we like it. We missed the Jackson fair because I was still pregnant with Peyton and sure that I would have him early. Luckily, the Laurel fair came in town a couple of days ago so we didn't have to miss the entire fair experience. A couple friend of ours came with us and I'm sure they were bored out of their minds at the slow pace we had to take.

 



Family of four!

 When we got there we got corn dogs to serve as our "real food" but they were pretty gross. I didn't even finish mine. We walked around a little bit to the circus part and they had sea lions dancing around. Kaleb sat on Eric's shoulders to watch them (picture out of order) and was pretty entertained for a little while. Once he got bored with that, I took him to get some nachos and cotton candy while Eric stayed with Peyton. Kaleb had a good time looking at all of the rides and really wanted to ride the ferris wheel and the "horses" aka the merry-go-round. Neither of these things happened because 1. he would have been terrified of the ferris wheel once he got up there, 2. the merry-go-round was going pretty fast so I don't think he would have liked it either, and 3. it cost $1.25 per ticket and that's just ridiculous.

The bag of cotton candy was bigger than him

 He wasn't happy that we weren't going to ride any of the rides, but they had a little train looking thing that he got to climb into a couple of times. That satisfied him enough. After our little group got finished eating, we decided to walk around and see everything the Laurel fair had to offer. We didn't walk long. Kaleb still wanted to ride the rides and we were still out of money. We decided to bypass looking around the fair and head to the petting zoo instead since it was free and on our way out. Kaleb got to feed the animals carrots. At first he was pretty shy (or scared) but eventually he fed the goats, llama, and a few other things I can't pronounce. He wasn't too keen with feeding the giant goat with horns so Eric took that one.

His favorite was the llama because of the song "Down by the Bay" in which the llamas eat their pajamas. That's his favorite part.

 After we left the petting zoo, Kaleb got a green balloon and we headed to the car. Let me just say that it takes a lot more time (and effort) to get two kids ready to go than one. Even if one of them doesn't move or talk. All in all it wasn't a bad experience. Peyton slept the whole time and I got to hear the "awww"s from the people who saw me carrying him.

Here's the out of place picture of Kaleb looking at the se lions dance. Oh yeah, in front of a tank.