Saturday, June 21, 2008

Saratoga Splash!

This week Saratoga Springs is celebrating it's 10th birthday or something, so they have been having fun things going on through the week, (like that outdoor movie). Today has the most events and the best part is that it's just at the park a block from our house.
This morning we went to the carnival. Everything was free to do and there were lots of free handouts as well. There were a lot of the jump house types of things, obstacle courses and such. I thought Morgan would love the jump house, but he crawled in a foot from the door and sat there looking a little bit unhappy. So Aaron pulled him out shortly.

There was face painting, so we partook. My idea, not Aaron's. He might want that specified. :)

One of the booths were doing fun balloons. We requested a sword for Morgan. They gave him a pink one. Morgan carried it and chewed on it for a long time, then suddenly it was gone. I don't know what happened to it.
I thought Morgan might have fun on this slide thing, but didn't think he could get up or down by himself safely. I took him up, (a much harder task than you might think while carrying a child) and bounced/stumbled down. There wasn't much sliding going on.

One of the little games for kids was throwing a ball into the can. Morgan did a slam dunk and got a prize.

This game Morgan was supposed to throw the ball into one of the holes, but once again we held him so that he could carefully place it in. :) Then he chose his prize.


This afternoon was the big squirt gun fight. How big was it? So big. In fact, this squirt gun fight actually now holds the world record for the largest squirt gun fight. The most people involved in one on record. They even got the firemen there with their fire hoses.
Morgan didn't have the ability to actually use his squirt gun without help, but he liked to hold it and shake it and try to suck the water out of it.
There were several kiddie pools about for people to refill their water guns. This was after the fight was pretty much over, and the water pretty much depleted.

4 comments:

Stephanie said...

hey that outfit looks familiar... Morgan is cute and I miss him.

Anonymous said...

It looks like you guys had lots of fun. What a cutie Morgan is I miss him also. Enjoy these events while you can. When your children get older (especially the boys) they no longer think anything is fun.

Stephanie said...

that last comment sounds like Mom...

SouthfieldFam said...

What a fun day! We need something like that here!