Carnival

Last night we went to a local Fireman's Carnival, which Miles was very, very excited about. He has been playing with a Little People ferris wheel and carnival game toy lately, so he has been asking to go to a real carnival. So all day yesterday he was nearly bursting out of his skin with excitment. He got to get cotton candy for the first time, which he liked the flavor, but didn't like it once it started getting sticky on his fingers. He played some carnival games:

And, finally, he got brave enough to ride some carnival rides. He loved the rides, and wanted to ride every single ride there, and any ride he did go on, he didn't want to get off.

He was concentrating so hard on driving this horse almost the entire ride. He would alternate between having both hands on the rope to drive the horse, and one hand on the horse rope and one hand on the bell rope to ring the bell. He was pretty serious about making sure that horse was going where it was supposed to go!

This train type ride was one he talked us into on our way out of the carnival, he was jumping up and down excited when he was a train on a train track. He ran and tried to push his way to the first car so he could drive the train, but, alas, someone else was already there. He took it well and happily got into the second car.

This fire engine ride was the first ride he went on. He was so busy ringing the bell on the front of the engine I think he forgot to be afraid, the ride started upand was going before he even knew what was happening. he rode this ride two times and had a huge grin each time!

Here is a little video clip to show he actually was riding the ride: