At the Fair

Today we decided to go to the Fair or as Katrina always says the "county" fair. She has been asking to go all week and finally Steve decided to come home early and we all took the afternoon off and played.
As soon as the girls found out that daddy was coming home so that they could go to the fair Amanda said "I want to ride Pinto". Now for those of you who don't have the pleasure of watching dora everyday pinto is her pony. Katrina didn't care about anything else either it was all about the horses and what color her horse was going to be.

When we finally got there we had to go directly to the pony ride. Steve and I were a little concerned that Amanda would not want to ride once we got there because we would have to wait outside the fence. We had warned her that this was going to happen and I guess that was enough because she got right on and never even questioned that other kids her age might be scared. I think it helped that Katrina got on first and didn't hesitate and was super excited.

They had a blast riding and you would have thought they were the rodeo queens or something they way they waved not only at us but at everyone who would look their way. Once Amanda was on the horse she was so comfortable that she never even held on to the saddle horn .

Katrina was having a ball she asked a million questions. Is "MY" horse a girl or a boy? Where is his mommy? How old is he? I think the people running the event had fun with her and it made it especially fun because we were there in the middle of the day before the crowds so we were the only ones here for the horses. The girls got to ride for about 5 or 6 minutes, later in the evening I noticed the rides were shortened to 1-2 minutes because the lines were getting too long.

There were so many fun things to do at the fair one of our favorite places was the kids farm area. We got to milk this cow, really milk (okay so technically it was water not milk but you get the idea) it if you didn't squeeze right you didn't get anything to come out of the udders. There was a women there who told them what they should do and gave little commentary as different things happened. First they had to pat the cow on the side and tell it their name so the cow would know who they were and not get scared it was really cute. Katrina caught right on and it took Amanda a little while to figure it out but she was a trooper and kept on trying until she got it. They actually squirted themselves a couple of times before they started getting it in the bucket.
They had this old fashioned water pump where the girls were able to pump the water they had to pump it fast and hard enough to get a little rubber ducky to float all the way down a skinny trough to the water barrel at the other end.
They each got a turn but this picture had almost everybody so obviously it wins =)






They also had this huge corn box (kind of like a sandbox only full of large corn kernels instead) they had a blast here and Amanda kept coming back after each activity to play in the corn. She loved it more than the others.







They had a Mother Goose magic show and the girls loved it! Katrina was one of the volunteers and helped mother goose rip up several squares of tissue paper. Then Mother goose squished them up in her hand while katrina waved the magic wand over it and said some magic words with the audience, the result was this beautiful hat. At the end of the show she made a bunny appear and the kids were able to go up and pet the bunny after the show.