Carnival.

The boys’ daycare center was celebrating their anniversary – and they did so this year, in a big way a couple weekends ago, with a carnival.

Our family

The boys received backpacks, with some goodies inside, right away when we arrived. The first thing we hit up was the games – bean bag toss, pick-a-ducky and other typical carnival games. They won a small “prize” every time.

Wyatt trying the bean bag toss.

 

Knock over the trolls time.

 

Colton trying his hand at it too!

 

The next thing that caught Colton’s eye was the big air-filled bouncy-slide. So he & I headed over there, but with an abundance of “bigger” kids, he was a little intimidated and decided against trying it out. Wyatt & daddy came over shortly after & Wyatt had the same feelings – it looked exciting but wasn’t quite brave enough to do it himself. Luckily, there was a smaller version of an air-filled bounce house/slide just their size & with only one other little girl in it – they took that on, no.problem!!

Colton, taking on the slide.

Jumping fun.

Wyatt sliding down!

 We then headed over where they had a station for families to paint their own cement paver to put in their garden. I started out by writing our names on it while the boys colored – but soon my names were being painted over by two little boys!! Wyatt tried different colors, but Colton was stuck on one of his favorites – orange. (…and he was putting it on pretty thick – pretty thick as, this thing wasn’t going to dry for more than a week thick!) We wrapped up the boys painting & while Cory was helping them get their hands washed up (they had provided old t-shirts to wear over their clothes) I finished up with adding in our names (and thinning out Colton’s orange globs a bit).

Our family stone
(the orange really covers the blues & yellows that
originally existed!)

The next thing Wyatt wanted to do was get his face painted. He chose a football! Colton was so, not interested in doing the face-painting thing, so we didn’t push it. Wyatt loved it!

Sitting so still.

 Unfortunately, I had a memorial service to attend for my grandma that day, so my carnival time was shortened. I helped get Cory & the boys into the big tent to start lunch and then I headed out.

Cory & the boys stayed until nap time – doing some more of the same things we had done that morning. They also stood in line for the clown-balloon-shape-maker to get two swords – the boys’ favorite thing they brought home from the carnival. (When Colton’s started to shrink the next day, he was determined that we had to go back & get him a new one…so that took a little explaining.)

It was a really fun day and we are very grateful for their daycare for hosting such a fun, family event!