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Well we did it! We managed to find time and go and enjoy the fair. It was a little hard since Jason didn't have the extra time to go with us, but luckily my mom came in town to help keep up with two little ones in a vast area of crowds. Sara talks about the Ferris wheel every time we drive by from the freeway so she was so excited to finally get to ride on it. I took both kids on it and it seemed to be just the right pace for us. I was grateful that neither child got scarred at all even when they looked down from the very top- the one nice thing about having kids with no fear. The next event was made obvious by Clayton's huge temper tantrum- we needed some deep fried food. The kids ate some potatoes that are a cross between potato chips and french fries, and then devoured an entire bag of cotton candy while we enjoyed the dog show- which they both really loved. The last event was the petting zoo. It was so much better than the zoo in the fact that they were able to touch all sorts of animals. Clayton really enjoyed getting to touch everything, especially the really soft lama. The giant mother pig did scare him quite a bit when she licked his hand in hopes for food, but all in all it was a great time.
Tonight Sara and I sat down to read stories as usual, and while Clayton read with us for a short time, soon his attention wandered and he went off to entertain himself. As I was reading I kept noticing out of the corner of my eye that Clayton would begin to enter the room as if something or someone was following him. This caught my attention since I was the only one here, and I couldn't think of an object that would follow him. Well I kept reading trying to hurry and finish the story so I could go and investigate. Well before I could finish I started to hear screams from Clayton in the other room. Alarmed Sara and I ran to see what could be going on. Well I found Clayton completely tangled in a spool of sewing thread. He had found the spool and had been trying to pull the end to get the rest to follow him, but it just kept unraveling. Soon he had managed to get a whole bunch of string wrapped all around his toes and legs and fingers until finally he was just stuck in a tangled mess. It was quite a site to see. Once I untangled him and stopped the spool from unraveling he was able to pull it around the house quite contentedly.
This weekend the kids decided to make a game out of hiding under blankets. Well we discovered that if we put a blanket over Clayton's head he would just walk freely without any hesitations. It was very fun to watch. I thought it was incredible the amount of trust he had that we would not do anything to hurt him; and he listened so well when we gave warnings to not go the way he was going. I just hope that I never let him down and he continues to trust his mom and dad always listening as we warn not to go the wrong way.
