carnival aka best day ever

Now imagine me begging him to get on the damn motorcycle. It took some convincing.

Um, let's just call this 'interpretive dance.'

The bounce house was his favorite part.

Avery covering his eyes in preparation for the helicopter landing. At this point, the helicopter was a speck in the sky.

After the landing, the boys finally got their turn on the train. Avery steered the entire time.

As Tavi put it, it was "boy heaven."

When Erica and I decided to take the boys to the JCC Family Carnival we had no idea how AMAZING the day would end up being. It was just Avery and I and we had tons of fun. There was everything one could hope for, games, snacks, police cars, police motorcycle, fire trucks (and firemen!), a helicopter landing (I literally had to cover him with my body to protect him from flying debris and dust) and not one, but TWO bounce houses. In addition, I won a $25 AMEX gift card for visiting 20 of the booths. Score!

This was just a fantastic day with a good friend and my son.