Ice...

We had our annual Fiesta this last weekend at Church. I worked the Mom's club confetti egg booth on Friday night then Saturday afternoon/evening Adam worked security. I had to work the booth again on Sunday night so we decided that I would bring the kids down to late Saturday afternoon and have dinner, do rides, and basically give all the money in my wallet to the church in exchange for 2 hours of family fun. Mission accomplished!

Adam's job in working security detail entails walking around every 3 hours and collecting money from all the food/game/ticket booths. The three hours in between the drops he was pretty much free. I came to the Fiesta right after he did a drop and he was able to have dinner and do some rides with us. We feasted on DELICIOUS Filipino food then played some games for the kids stomachs to settle before trying out the rides. The games at the fiesta are pretty typical carnival. Throw a ball into a fish bowl and win a fish (I steered the kids clear of this one!) Throw dimes in glasses and win the glass (I am now the proud owner of a martini glass, campaign flute and a shot glass), as well as many other booths such as skeeball, balloon darts, etc. You name it, we tried it, except for the fish of course, we won nothing, except for the stupid glasses. Oh well, the kids liked it.

After finishing with the games I finally decided that we were ready to attempt some kiddie rides and so we headed in that direction. As we were walking there Alec tugs on my arm and points to a big white trailer with bold black letters saying, "ICE" on the side. No pictures, just that word. He says to me, "Mommy, does that trailer have ice in it?" I say, "Yes, how did you know that?" He says, "It says it!" I was so excited and told him, "Alec!!! You just read that word and knew what was in the there!!" How cool is that? He just read his first word without prompting, without sounding it out, without it being in a book where there is a picture next to it...SO proud!! GO Alec!

We went on as many rides as our tickets would allow and after smashing some confetti eggs on eachother we headed home. I have such fond memories of the fiesta at St. Phillip's growing up and this one had that same feel. Family oriented, good food, good fun and safe. I am so glad that my kids will have the opportunity to build similar memories to what I remember as a child.