Riley and Avery

So, we went to the Colorado State Fair yesterday. It was Dollar Day, so admission and all the rides were a dollar. Thank goodness, because even the kiddie rides normally take 3 tokens, and with Riley, Avery, and me riding them, we'd be paying $9 to go an a kiddie ride. Craziness. Well, Avery is too short to go on any of the kiddie rides by herself. And I'm too big to go on most of the kiddie rides with her. Bummer. We did find a few that we could go on together. I never thought that a child who is almost
three wouldn't be able to go on kiddie rides. I mean, I know she's tiny, but come on. How can a family come to the fair and tell a nearly three year old that she is too small for the rides that are clearly for children, when the child knows darn well she's not too young? They both liked the ferris wheel the best. I was nervous that Avery would scream as soon as we got going, since she has shown signs of being scared of heights before. She did clutch to me, and wouldn't let me use one of my hands to point things out. Anyway, as we finally get going up she does "wooooooooooooow...booooooootiful!" Riley liked looking at how small the people on the ground seemed, and how small everything else seemed.


Riley also went into the haunted house with Rudi. Although I heard a lot of screaming (she got the screaming down on the kiddie roller coaster when I told her she can scream on rides) she really wanted to go on again, but we had used our last tokens on the ride and as we were about to leave, I didn't want to buy more.


Thankfully we stopped at Subway before going to the fair. Man, food was expensive! We even passed on funnel cake (Rudi and I both looooooove funnel cake, so you know that was hard) because they were $6. Now that I think about it, Rudi did spend $6 on an ice cream sundae, so now I'm starting to think I was gypped out of my part of a funnel cake. Hey, no fair! Someone owes me half of a funnel cake!


We left for the fair around 2pm and got home after 11pm. So it was a long day. Right before going to the fair, I took a shower, and Avery asked if she could nurse in bed. Then she said "Wait a minute, we going to the fair. Can I nurse after the fair?" It was cute. She nursed at the fair, by the way. The girls were literally asleep in the car withing three minutes (Avery was asleep before we even left the parking lot).


Fun times all around.

I shut two of Riley's fingers in the door yesterday. I felt so bad. She was going into the garage to get something, so I opened the door to turn on the light. She started going down the steps and I go to close the door and she had put her fingers in the side by the hinges. They looked pretty smooshed but she'll live.


Oh yeah. So Riley and Avery were busy drawing and creating when I realized that Riley had gotten the envelope of hair I was saving from Avery's first haircut. She had "glued" it, using glue and liquid lip gloss, to her picture of a cat. I was beyond mad. I was irate, to put it mildly. Then as we were going to the fair I was putting Avery's hair into barrettes and I notice many short spots. I noticed that she had bangs. I noticed a two-inch section on the crown of her head. I realized that Riley not only used the hair from Avery's first haircut, but harvested hair directly off of her head. Grrr. Avery's hair was looking so nice, with the bangs as long as the rest of her hair. Now we are back to square one, growing out her bangs. I may have to neaten her bangs up, but well, now she has bangs. Sigh...

Well, this is the picture that Riley used Avery's hair for:


I guess the whole picture will have to go in the scrapbook. Well, at least it has an interesting story now. That is, if the liquid lip gloss ever dries...

And about getting Riley into the Kindergarten curriculum...well, I'm wimping out. I don't know why. I just am. I also don't want to ask while I'm painting because if I weren't a charity case I wouldn't be there to ask anyway. I don't want to take advantage. Should I wait until Open House on Monday (Labor Day)? Grr, I don't know...