Carnival

Colin left for Boston last Saturday morning.   My mom, brother, and the 5 of us went to the boys' school carnival.  I have the best memories of our school carnivals growing up.   I was excited to take the kids.   Sad that Colin wasn't there, but we did okay! 

 

 The fun slide was, in fact, FUN!

The boys wanted to ride the roller coaster - THE DRAGON WAGON  ; )

Their faces were priceless.

Sheer terror.

 

 About the fourth time around, Jackson called to me, "COOPER DOESN'T LIKE IT!!!!"

and I could see Cooper just repeating those words over and over and over again...

"I don't like it.  Jackson, I don't like it.  I don't like it."

:)

When it was over, Jackson looked relieved, but said he liked it and wanted to do it again next year.

Cooper did NOT want to do it again next year.

Rode the kiddie train to relax.

Then we did some horrible spinning ride (no picture).

Of course, neither Daniel nor my mom were getting on these rides, so I sucked it up.

I pretended to like it.  

I didn't like it. 

But, Charlie and Cooper loved it! Jackson tolerated it.

I just kept praying for it to end and that I wouldn't throw up on my children and that one of the three of them wouldn't freak out in the middle of it, and I wouldn't be able to do anything to help them.

Anyway, we did it.

: )

Jackson did the swing thing.   Cooper wasn't tall enough.

Bumper cars. 

SO fun.

Wish Charlie would have been able to do it at the same time. 

Daniel took him again after we went ...

not enough grown-ups to kids.

Carousel...

Lunch ...

And then the berry-go-round.

Thankfully the big boys could do this all by themselves.   They were joined by two other little guys the same ages.

Maggie zonked out.

The boys played all the little games, too.

Fun times.  Looking forward to next year!