Day 27 - Summer in Cincy

Just saw that I missed Day 26. Did you think we were too busy having a Baby Brother or something? Unfortunately, no. I guess I just had a busy day and forgot. So here's a special long post to make up for the missing Day 26.

Can you guess where we were the other night?

First hint:

Those are pull tab games. You might recognize it better in a big pile on the ground (which is where he picked up this one. I wasn't letting my 2 year old gamble.)

Need another hint?

That would be a Grotto - or the Blessed Mother for those of you who speak Catholic - in the background of some sweet rides.

That's right, we took Larkin to his first Festival! And it did not disappoint... from a festival standpoint, at least. In other words, there were a lot of sad and scary Clermont County folks enjoying greasy food, rickety rides, and other various vises.

And Larkin enjoyed some of those things himself! Namely, the rides that go around in circles. He insisted on the pink Jeep.

And the purple motorcycle.

Eventually he made it onto a blue one.

Then to our major surprise, Larkin declared that he wanted to go down the big slide. This kid rarely wants to go down a little playground slide, so we asked him about 40 times if he was sure.

 Apparently he was. OK, so his face looked like this the entire way down. Every picture:

 And he had that death grip on his Daddy's shorts, but he went down and posed at the bottom:

Big smiles!