Team Taylor: Carnival Time

Saturday, May 9, 2015

Carnival Time

You have been asking to go to a carnival and ride a ferris wheel for months now. One of your favorite books, "Knuffle Bunny Free", has a picture of a carnival ferris wheel and every time we read that book (which is a lot), you ask if you're big enough to ride that.

Our town has a carnival every spring as a fund raiser for Leader Dogs for the Blind and we saw them start to assemble the rides a few weeks ago after swimming lessons. You have been very hopeful to get a chance to go and ride the ferris wheel. Daddy and I decided to surprise you after daycare one night and take you to the carnival. We were a little nervous about whether it would actually get to happen because we decided it would only happen if you had good behavior all day at daycare (i.e., stayed on your green card all day) because you had been having a lot of yellow and even a few red cards lately for not listening or following one of the other classroom rules. I think Daddy and I both would have been more devastated than you if you hadn't stayed on green that day! But, you had a great day and were a good girl listening to your teachers and following all of the classroom rules all day and were able to stay on green...so, carnival, here we came!

You were so excited to see the ferris wheel and rode it with Daddy (Mama decided it would probably be best to stay on the ground and take pictures); Daddy said you were a little nervous and really couldn't see anything over the edge of the bucket you were sitting in, but still enjoyed it.

You also got to ride the train, roller coaster, big slide, carousel, spinning bear, and fire truck!

We let you play one of the games as the last thing and you chose to fish for a prize. You could choose between a small stuffed animal or a huge ball...of course, you chose the huge ball!