Farm animals are scary!

We got back last night from visiting Grandma and Grandpa Sheriff in NW PA. If it weren't for the 5 hour one way trip, we would go back more than we do. Camryn really enjoys her visits there, but it isn't a trip we can take often. During this trip, Camryn's cousins on my side of the family (Connor, Ella, and Zachary) were all there. They had a blast playing together, tried their best at sharing the toys (as well as Grandma and Grandpa), and effectively filled the house with lots of noise. :) They also had fun playing with the slip and slide in the yard and enjoyed their time at the Crawford County Fair together. It ended up being a hot afternoon at the fair after a morning of storms, but we all managed to have a great time.

As I said in my last post, I thought that Camryn would really like to see the animals at the fair. Boy, was I wrong!! She could see the pony ride during lunch and seemed so excited to watch them. After lunch, we bought tickets for all of the kids to ride the ponies. I knew I would have to hold on to Camryn during her ride, but I thought she would have fun. Nope. As soon as I got her near the pony, she held on to me with a death grip and screamed bloody murder. I tried to show her that the pony was nice, but she wanted absolutely no part in it. Luckily, they gave me my money back. That taught me that she loves fake horses on the merry go round, but if it moves on its own, she thinks it is scary! From there, we went through the animal barns and she would scream if we got her too close to any of the animals. She was fine looking at them from a distance, but that was about it. She loves her animal books and making their noises, but if they are less than 10 feet from her in real life, it is a different story!! I guess from her perspective, farm animals are pretty big and scary! Although, she enjoyed the tiger show - maybe I need to teach her that she should be afraid of the animals that will eat us and not the animals that we eat!!!