Recently, the girls had their first fall festival experience and costume experience!
They were a little nervous as to what to expect, but the mention of candy helped them push through those nervous feelings!
They chose their costume, and this mama did her best (with some help from their Chicka) to pull it off!
C chose the standard Asian peacock. FL chose an obscure brown peacock with little purple dots that is in a little exhibit at our zoo. Her costume is a bit of a stretch from that, but she's three. ; )
Sam was there to help with the carnival, which worked out great because he was in the candy and game area! He got to experience this first with us!
A king size snicker bar!!! Flora Lin is thinking, "God Bless America!" No looking back at her old life for this one!
The carnival had a bounce house... C and FL tried one of these before and it was a wide-eyed, totally freaked out disaster. What a difference a few months and some physical therapy makes!
As long as they were the only ones in it, they were happy!
They gleefully face-planted so many times! It was hilarious!
At one point, another child got in and FL got out. C decided to be brave and stay in. The other child pulled on the bounce house a little too much and it. began. to. collapse. Mama was not ok! I couldn't hold it up and get to C! The other child was strong enough to get out and pushed C to the side as it was collapsing... Mama was not ok! All I could do was hold it up and reach in to hold her hand to reassure her. She wasn't visibly upset, but then again I couldn't see her! No one was really doing much of anything and I was beginning to really, really not be ok when....
Suddenly Sam appeared! He always rescues us silly girls just when we need it!
Needless to say, we closed it down!
The girls really brought down the house that night! ; )
Later, we went to the Little Pumpkin Playhouse (just for little kids) and then on a hayride to the campfire to roast marshmallows. I let the girls stop and have a snack when we first got to the campfire. They were so excited to eat some candy from their buckets! It's only once a year, right?, ; )
Two pretty and precious peacocks!
The fire was very, very hot and the roasting sticks very, very short, so rather than attempting to make a gooey, messy, hot s'more (and possibly two fried peacocks and a fried mama) I just gave them a marshmallow, two graham crackers and ate the chocolate myself! ; )
They didn't even notice!
They were too busy eating graham crackers and such.
After an adventurous journey back to the main part of camp, we had dinner and then joined Sam for the last few activities and then clean up.
C was excited to help. FL wasn't that into helping... But she really liked pushing buttons!
It was a fun night, despite a couple of hiccups! Very successful for our girls' first time!
As FL says, we rocked it!
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