Kids Day on the Circle

The Indy 500 is next weekend, and today was Kids Day on the Circle. We took Piper downtown to enjoy the festivities. We were going to enter her in the Rookie Run, but we found out she was supposed to be 3 to enter. They said we could anyway, but we decided to wait until next year.

She had her face painted and got a balloon animal hat made for her. She played on the Bounce area and went through the petting zoo. We collected a ton of balloons, but only went home with one. I have to say that the weirdest mascot we saw today was the shampoo guy from Great Clips. She liked them all and was tired by the end of the day.

The Lego exhibit was really neat. They had a replica of the track and one of Lucas Oil Stadium.

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Balloons and Kids

I wonder what the fascination is with kids and balloons?

Piper absolutely loves balloons, and she's had two this week. One from Bounce U, and another from the car dealership when Daddy took the car in to get an oil change. She will run around the apartment with her new toy and laugh as it bobs up and down.

Then the inevitible will happen. The balloon deflates and won't float anymore, until it is just a sad shell on the floor. Piper gets so upset when the balloon doesn't work as well. In fact, she is so sad and frustrated she doesn't handle it well, and she can't understand why it just won't behave the same as it did yesterday.