A day with Nana at the fair

Colin has been wanting to have a "Nana Day" for a while now. That means an overnight without his brother. He loves his brother, Dylan, and is very good with him but it used to be just the two of us for his first 3.5 yrs. and he longed for a return to my undivided attention.

We started Sunday night with popcorn and a movie he had picked out at church. Then a long, loud bath (the bath is next to Dylan's bedroom so normally he has to be quiet) with those little capsules that turn into marvelous shapes in the water. He asked for a lotion massage, which I used to give him as a baby and he doesn't get at home, followed by stories. At last we settle into my bed to go to sleep but he decides he wants to sleep like he sometimes used to do as a baby--on top of me, only now he's over 30 lbs. But go to sleep he did, with me rubbing his back.

I had searched for something special to do today and found just the thing--a local fair. He wore his bright yellow and blue soccer shirt from County Clare Ireland (thank you Lori) and a hat from his greatgranddaddy.

Thank goodness we got there when they opened at 10a because by the time we left at 1:30p it was crowded and hot and humid. Colin rode everything he qualified for and together we rode the ferris wheel. Of course we had to have more popcorn, this time caramel. He threw darts at balloons and the guy felt sorry for him missing so he got to pick out a surprise--a black spiderman, which I'm sure he will be sleeping with tonight.

Here he is riding the merry-go-round, holding his newly won spiderman close.

He's driving very aggressively here. I hope that's not a sign of the future!

The last thing to do was to climb through an obstacle course and end up getting to slide down a long slide!

What a fun day! Can you tell I love being a Nana?