Carnival!

The Catholic church in McPherson has an Oktoberfest German food/carnival fundraiser every year. I had seen the advertisement for it posted at our daycare and thought it sounded like it might be fun! We really had no idea what to expect - whether Hayden would want to play any game or if he'd just cling to one of us in terror!

But things went better than we anticipated!  The food was really pretty good - ham, bean and dumpling soup; bierocks, kalushkis (spelling? - meatballs wrapped in cabbage), german sausage, hamburgers, pickles and kuchen. The line was pretty long when we got there, but moved relatively quickly. Then came the carnival. Some of the games were a little too hard for Hayden to do and others he really didn't seem interested in. But the gym was where the excitement was! There was an inflatable obstacle course, a Spiderman inflatable and an inflatable bouncy house! So for a few dollars, Hayden got a pumpkin stamp on his arm and got to play in the bouncy houses!

Before this, however, he had a slight wardrobe malfunction. First, he put his arm about half way down his underwear trying to scratch his butt. Then when Jason told him he could play on the inflatables, Hayden tried to take off down the hallway to get his stamp but his pants, which are a little too big around the waist, fell all the way to the ground and he tripped and fell. Of course, I missed all this first hand (Tucker needed my attention) but I'm sure it was pretty funny to watch!

This weekend Hayden kept his underwear dry - even going to a friends house and being at the carnival! And Tucker got to watch his first Disney movie, and one of my personal favs, The Lion King! After the movie ended we were picking up and trying to decide what to watch next when we noticed Hayden clenching and focusing real hard on the wall. This is a sure sign he's about to poo and if you ask him if he needs to he denies it every time. The problem is that he wasn't wearing a pull-up, he was wearing underwear! So Jason picked him up and took him to the bathroom upstairs. The poor kid has issues when it comes to going number two and hates to have anyone look at him, let alone touch him or talk to him when he's trying to do his business so having Daddy take him to the bathroom was absolutely awful! But Jason told him that if he at least tried to sit on the potty he'd get to pick out the movie. Hayden agreed and after a few seconds of straining he pooped in the potty for the first time in his life! He was so proud of himself he ran downstairs to tell Tucker and I! We upheld our end of the bargain and he got to watch Star Wars! Even sat through The Empire Strikes Back from start to finish (a first for him)!