Lions, Ponies and Sand Castles, Oh my!

We had an action packed weekend up in Carmel. We got into town around 8pm and Gavin had his first experience on the lovely Carmel pull out bed. He did great considering the pokey springs. He didn't even notice it. Didn't fall out and didn't cry in the middle of the night. Yippee. He came into our room around 5:30 (ugh!), saying "It's wake up time". Luckily, he remained quiet for another hour while we tried to go back to sleep. No such luck but better to rest in bed than get up that early on a Saturday.

We headed to the park in Carmel and got in a nice early, crisp walk then jumped in the car to see the miniature ponies. My mom has a friend who has two ponies and she thought Gavin might like to see them, possibly ride them. Miniature ponies are still too big for little Gav. This is about as close as he got to the pony. At the end of the visit, Gavin got enough courage to sit on the pony.... the rocking chair pony.












He did however enjoy the tortoise. He fed him apples and lettuce and loved to "love tap" (aka hit him) on his shell.







Later that night we all got bundled up to attempt to sit for 2 whole hours and watch the Wizard of Oz at the outdoor theater in Carmel.
We prepped Gavin ahead of time telling him about the show and we sang "we are off to see the wizard" many times before the show. Here is Gavin singing the song all dressed up.


We grabbed out wool blankets, sweaters, and gloves and walked a block over to the theater. The show was awesome. They sang really well, had flying good witches and bad witches, the set was great. Gavin did an amazing job sitting still throughout the whole show and didn't melt down during intermission. Gavin was our little boy blanket and kept Steve and I toasty warm. He didn't get scared of the witch or the flying monkeys. We really had a great time!

Sunday morning was the 43rd annual (or something like like.. been around for a while) sand castle contest. We were a bit hesitant to go since Gavin has been known to body slam and thrash other kid's sand castles leaving them weeping in the sand. But he was good. We even attempted to make our own whale. Gavin got an award for his efforts. Next year we want to enter the competition with Cousin Coleson.