When talking about outings with 2 year olds, it's hard to walk the line between "it was so fun!" and "two year olds are insane and we'll never take them anywhere ever again!" There's a fun/not fun paradigm to taking them places, and it's hard to communicate that very accurately; one tends to come off as either WAY too upbeat about it (everything! is! perfect! all! the! time!) or too downbeat about it (my children are unbelievable terrors, what was I ever thinking?). To be honest, I struggle to write about the things I do with James sometimes, because of this fun/not fun paradigm. I feel like people on the outside are not going to get it: we really DO have a lot of fun, until we are having NOT FUN, and then we have to go home. And that's life! With a two year old, that is. While the NOT FUN part is exasperating (ah, to carry a crying, screaming two-year-old through a crowd, followed by disapproving stares!), once you regain your sense of humor, it's pretty amusing. And it makes me love him that much more.
James' favorite part of the fair was definitely the bus ride. He freaked out that he got to ride on a bus, and he couldn't wait to go home and so we could ride the bus again. We seriously kept him going for an extra hour while we were "looking for the bus." Gee, that bus, where is it? Maybe it's down here?? (is that mean? It feels mean to say it out loud, but it worked!) He also really like the food, and what 2 year old wouldn't? Everything is deep fried and dipped in chocolate! We had a churro (good), barbecue (good), and chocolate covered bacon (James LOVED it, but not good). Mmm, we also had deep fried, breaded Australian potatoes slathered in ranch (Sooo good, but so, so bad).
The best part of the fair (for James, and for us because he wasn't running around like a crazy person OR crying OR needing to be carried by Nate because he was SO tired) was definitely the petting zoo. We've been reading lots of books lately that feature farm animals, so it was an OUT OF THIS WORLD experience for him to see them in real life, and to get to touch them. He just wanted to sit and sit with the cows. How can you not love a little guy like that?
something about pix of a kid with farm animals that just makes me glad to live on this planet.
ReplyDeleteDeep fried BUTTER??? Ick!
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean about the outings being fun and not fun. I often don't want to go on outings at all, because it is so much work and ends in not fun! I'm actually really impressed that you get out with him as much as you do.
OMG, Becks, I could have written that post - the part about "this is so much fun!" and "this was the worst idea ever, what was I thinking!" I think it's possibly only amplified with two 2 years ...and I frequently get exhausted at the thought of taking the girls anywhere. And then we do, and they are loving every bit of it ... until they don't, and then you just want to pull your hair out ;)! Just think: Some time soon we'll sit back and say: Remember when they were toddler and sooo cuuuute?! :)
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