Too Early For the Potty

We caught this footage after neglecting to keep on eye on her for awhile. She really does love to explore. I guess she's too young for the potty:)

We are now all at Rockaway Beach for the rest of the week. Maya didn't like the ride down. She is usually a good traveler but she cried the final 40 minutes or so. She just wanted out. When we finally got settled, she crawled and crawled and crawled.

Vinnie is also settled. For this vacation, it only took one day for him to finally eat. He has yet to poop though. He always gets so nervous, thinking we're going to leave him. To be honest, he probably gets more exercise here than at home since they have a big field for his frisbee play.

I'll post pictures of the vacation soon.

Fun With Four Year Olds

Mom, Willa, my Aunt Rhonda and her Grandson Corbin came for a visit this past weekend. Willa and Corbin have such a good time playing with each other and are best friends so they thought they would take them on their very own vacation to spend time together. Friday evening when they got here we just hung around the house to let the kids play. It took Corbin a little while to get acquainted with Vinnie but they soon became pretty good buddies.

Saturday morning we woke up pretty early and were the first in line at Grant's Farm. I think the kids had a blast! The big kids loved the giant turtle and of course....the goats! After we saw all of the animals and watched the animal adventure show they finally got to feed the goats. Maya had to sit this one out though. I wasn't brave enough to take her inside of the pen so she just got to pet one from the outside. After we were all completely worn out we headed back home for Maya to take a nap and the big kids got to cool off in the sprinkler. We then rested awhile before we were off on our next adventure. If you remember from my last post, we had so much fun at Chuck E. Cheese last weekend with Josie and Olivia, we decided to go there for supper. Although Corbin had a great time, Willa was very overwhelmed and perhaps a little scared. She quickly decided that we needed to leave as soon as we finished our pizza. She even suggested that we should have just gone to Pizza Hut! But we were able to convince her into staying so Corbin could finish his games.

Sunday was much more low key. We decided to go to the mall where there is a large play area and carousel. After playing for a while we had some lunch and called it a day. Shortly after returning home. They got packed up and headed back to Cole Camp. It was a very busy weekend with a lot of activities packed in, but both kids were really good, played well together and had a great time. I'm sure they will always remember their first vacation together and I'm glad that we got to share it with them.





We have many more good pictures from the weekend but I think I will leave it to Brandon to put them into the slide show. So be on the look out!

4th of July pictures

Now, if I could only teach Lezlie to upload some photos, I wouldn't have to do it. Anyway, here are a few. I've also added a few more to the slideshow. It's amazing how big she's getting.

Busy Holiday Weekend

Brandon is always fussing at me because I never write anything on our blog. So...I thought that I would update everyone on our long holiday weekend. Friday afternoon Steve and Barb came up and that evening we went to watch Bridgeton's firework display. They were awesome, we all really enjoyed it. Unfortunately, I missed Maya's very first reaction because I was in line to use the bathroom :( But apparently, she was not scared at all and just looked around until she finally spotted the source of all of the noise. From then on, she just looked in awe or perhaps she was so tired that she was just in a daze (it was well past her bed time). Either way she sat quietly and was a very good girl.

On Saturday morning Jason, Josie and Olivia came up to spend the day with us. I couldn't believe how tall both of the girls have gotten since the last time we saw them!! For lunch we went to Chuck E. Cheeses. I'm not sure who had more fun playing the arcade games, Brandon or Josie???? With their combined tickets, Josie picked out some colorful "gems" and treasure bag. After lunch we came back to the house to relax for a while. We were hoping that Maya would take a nap to prepare for her late night. But no luck, she just wanted to play. However, Olivia took a really good nap.

Then that evening, we went to St. Charles where they had a carnival and an even better fire works display. Again, Maya did really well and wasn't scared at all. I think my favorite part of the evening was watching Olivia's reaction to the fire works. She kept asking "Lezlie, what's happening?" and saying "Wooo Whooo" after every burst. It was pretty darn cute!

Well, that's it in a nut shell. Our weekend was jam-packed but we had an such a good time. It is always nice when we have our family come to see us, thanks for coming everyone! We will see you in a couple of weeks!