FAIR! and Morgan's Mellon

My blond girl wanted the blond horse... named Paris. (See PJ?)

Payton no likey the horsie... but we tried!

Morgan liked driving this car... it was on tracks, went at a consistent speed, and steering was unnecessary!

Payton's first carnival ride!

Can this one go for a ride? Is she 2? Say she's 2. She's 2 !

All in all, good times! PJ decided she didn't really appreciate missing her afternoon nap, so we grabbed our soba noodles and headed home. For some reason, I didn't take pictures of the kids in the animal barns, etc... all part of that "enjoy your children and let go of the camera" thing.

My only disappointment was that they didn't have a Ferris Wheel! I wanted to go on that ride with Morgan!

:)

On another note.... the other day my sweet girl told us she was ready for bed, so her daddy said "let's go get your vitamin", to which she enthusiastically agreed.... off she skipped into the kitchen, and somehow she tripped, and spanked her mellon, straight into the corner of our island. Dead center of her forehead. It IMMEDIATELY swelled to the size of a golfball, black... and she CRIED. I cannot believe the skin didn't break. She might get a scar, the skin separated so much... but it held together. I am so grateful Steve was home at the time, because if he hadn't, it would have busted just like Sabrina's head busted on that swingset at the park... and Miss PJ got scared too and was hysterical. It would NOT have been good if I had been home alone, and there had been blood EVERYWHERE and both girls had been hysterical. EEK. Morgan shortly thereafter acted like she was going to pass out, but she was tired before the accident, and the crying really wore her out, and after a few questions from her daddy, where do you live, what are you going to do in a couple of weeks for Josh ( by the tower on Nickernut, be a flower girl in Josh's wedding) etc., etc., we thought it was okay for her to go to bed. Steve woke her up and checked on her a few times, but she got a clean bill of health. Right now her head is a puce, brown, grey, green color, with a vertical reddish scab strip. It's quite a beauty. But her bangs cover it up so you can't see it.

Speaking of bangs, I'm very excited, because I've always cut her hair but she's going to be a flower girl in two weeks, and she needs a trim and I don't want to mess it up, plus her hair is getting really, REALLY long... so I made an appointment for her at a child's salon in Bend. Oh my, they will treat her like a princess, she gets to sit in a special chair, they use glitter spray when they are finished. Wowee. She's going to LOVE it. I'm going to also check it out because they do birthday parties there, where the kids dress up and they do their hair and paint their nails and such... with a January baby, sometimes you have to be creative about what you do for their birthday parties... this might be an idea.

So there!