A Blog From the Davis's: Fun Times at the Fair

I'm really not sure if there's another kid in the entire world that loves the Mississippi State Fair as much as Tanner Davis. I mean he LOVES it!!!! The rides, the food, the rides, the lights, the rides, the animals!!! Did I mention he LOVES the rides?!?! We hafta have major discussions about how the fair doesn't stay here all year and how we eventually hafta leave because the carnival workers hafta go to sleep too!!! He needs lots of time to process and prepare for horrible, yet inevitable, fact of life!!! But boy does he have fun in the mean time!!! Me and Scotty both are pretty fond of the fair too, so I guess he gets it honest!!

Mesmerized by the Ring of Fire!!

We love a Funnel Cake!!

Todd & Lauren went with us to see Tanner ride all the rides!! He loves them so much and was so excited they came!! And bless Lauren's sweet heart she was coaxed into riding lots of rides with Tanner since for some reason they didn't let preggers people join in the fun!! Discrimination, I think!!!

Tanner loves to ride the Ferris Wheel with his Daddy. Obsessed is probably a better word. Believe it or not, he rode it last year for the first time (when he was only 2!!!) and has never been the same since!!! It's kinda their thing!!

Jeepin'!!

Wooo Hoooo!!!

Tanner and Lauren riding Betsy Bee!!

And the Dragon Roller Coaster!!!

Tan Man's in the yellow one!!

These race cars were one of Tanner's favorite things to ride and one of the funniest to watch!! They went around a track and then would whip around the curve really hard and fast and Tanner would die out laughing!!! It was hilarious!!

It was almost time to leave and Tanner, of course, had a meltdown. Uncle Todd tried to reassure him that he was gonna get to come back to the fair another day, but he just didn't understand that carnies need beauty rest too!!! Then they started turning all the lights off!! True story.

Nothing like a little Pineapple Whip for the road!!

So that was a week night. Yes, I kept my kid out til almost 11pm. We made plans to go back with my family that weekend and Tanner could hardly wait for Saturday!!!
We'd gotten a new bed and mattresses and had the old ones standing up in our back hallway and Tanner loves for Scotty to drag them out into the living room so we can have a "Slum Party" (slumber party). When we drag them out, it usually ends up with me and Tan on the mattress and Scotty on the couch and then we watch a movie - Tanner's choice. So Friday night we had a Slum Party in anticipation of going to the fair the next morning!! Such fun memories!!

We started off the morning with a pony ride!!! (And one of those free biscuits with syrup!!)

Tanner started off riding with Scotty walking beside him, but then got brave and did it all by himself!!

Playing games with Daddy!!

My Dad and Sister took a spin on the roller coaster!!

And then they shared Pineapple Whip with Tan!!

The car from The Help!!! We'd had a mother/daughter date and gone to see the movie so the car was kinda like posing with a movie star!!

Tanner & Granna dancin' to some oldies!!

She's the wild one.

Tanner & Elsie the Cow!! After he got done petting her he was introduced to strawberry milk!! Now his fave!!

Then it was time for the Pig Races...

Oh the pig races (sigh).... Tanner got picked from the crowd to be a pig rooter. He was assigned one of the pigs and if his won he got a "prize". Well, his did win!!! Then the last race is when they brought out the pot-belly pigs. The actually wanted to pick fat people from the crowd to be the rooters for these!!!! Just keep in mind, at the time, I was nearing the 7 month mark in my pregnancy. And what does my sweet husband do??? VOLUNTEERS ME!!!! And he pointed to my belly!!! The man thought that was hilarious so of course I was a pig rooter for the big ol' pot-bellies!!!! FYI - my pig didn't win bc it stopped to eat. What a porker!!! (In all the madness I forgot to take a picture of the pot belly pig...they were huge. This one was Tanner's!!)