Azalea Festival

I was so excited about taking Gavin to the Azalea Festival this year.  I just knew he was going to have the best time of his life, irregardless of the fact that he is only 10 months old and can't walk.  I had seen on the advertisement that they were having a petting zoo and of course in my mind I figured it would be a slightly smaller version of the one they have at Wild Adventures.  It is okay to laugh, loudly at my obvious lack of festival experience.  Boy was I wrong!!  These people had like 2 bunnies a hamster and maybe one other animal.  All in cages and then wanted to charge you $3 to pet them.  Ha!  Not I and most certainly not Gavin!  They had tons of other fun stuff to do but unfortunately it was all for kids at least a year older than Gavin.  So here is to hoping next year will be all that I hoped this year would be :-).

This is how our day started out, as you can tell not a good sign.

Gavin being "inquisitive" refusing to look at the camera

Us finally doing something he enjoyed

His squeals of delight

He is happier now, so he decides to reward us with a quick look at the camera

So then we try and kill some more time walking around hoping we can get him to hold out long enough for us to watch the frisbee catching dogs.  A very nice and well meaning lady at one of the local church's tents handed us a couple of suckers for "the baby"  well me being the "SUCKER" that I am, actually gave one of them to my child who rarely has any sugar that doesn't come from fruit.  And it was nap time, and he was bored.  Well the next series of pictures is of us attempting to watch the dog show after Gavin had his sucker.....

All he wanted to do was crawl into the middle of the performance ring and/or hold on to the small blue rope that was separating us from the performance ring.  And when we wouldn't allow that, he pitched a fit.  So we gave up and went home before the first dog was even done :-(.  Here is to hoping next year I don't mess up and give him a sucker :-).

Gavin may take after his Daddy in the looks department, but he unfortunately tends to take after his Mommy in the attitude department. (which thankfully isn't a frequent occurrence for either of us :-))  Fortunately he also, like his Mommy, wears his emotions on his sleeve so you never have to guess how he feels.

I mean seriously does this picture not say it all!  So funny, so very, very funny!  Poor little boy, has to put up with such exasperating parents! Must be very tiring!!