Let's not talk about sickness anymore, it makes me crazy. We should talk about vacation instead!!! We went on a trip to Florida. But we took the long way by stopping overnight at Ben's parent's house in NC and then to Augusta, GA for a few days to visit friends we met in seminary, and on the way home stopping in Mississippi to see friends from when we lived there and Ben's sister. We had a BLAST.
Here are some highlights... I painted Grace's toenails for the first time EVER on the trip! It was super fun... but in the last 10 minutes a friend posted THIS on facebook and took all the fun out of it. Ignorance is bliss!! Wah.
I love Grace's smile in the picture below. She was trying SO hard. She loves wearing dresses. I think I have two girly-girls on my hands.
Anna Sue was getting pretty brave jumping in the pool. Grace got brave too. So brave, in fact, that she went in without her puddle jumper. Since she was just on the stairs, I thought it was no big deal. You know, my firstborn would NEVER ever consider doing anything remotely dangerous. But Gracie kept on walking down until her head was underwater, and she was struggling. I had to jump in and rescue her. You know, I was basically a day saver. It was about 60 degrees out, and I had been in the hot tub. The good news is that the pool was heated to 87 degrees. I'd like to say she won't do that again, but who knows with that silly girl.
Here we are, all 6 of us heading to the pool. Notice the park behind me, that was basically in our backyard!!
We let the kids watch a movie one night, and you can see they were REALLY into it.... must.stop.sucking.fingers.
Naturally there was a cold spell in Florida for a number of the days we were there. And, the day we went to the beach it was reeeeaaaallly cold and windy. The bigger kids made the best of it and still enjoyed playing in the sand.
Mom, Ben and I traded off holding Drew and tried to rescue him from the fierce winds. Since Drewbie thrives on being touched, he was basically in heaven while being smothered.
Grace loooooved wearing her shades.
We left the beach after not too long, and went to the park that was nearby. It warmed up a bit as the sun came out more, and the kids had a lot of fun!
We HAD to have them get a picture in their matching outfits.
I just thought this picture was hilarious. This is what you get when you try to take a picture of 4 kids 5 and under....
We had so much fun swimming together!! And we were SO thankful for the heated pool because it allowed us to swim even when the weather wasn't warm!
So, overall we had a GREAT trip. It was super fun to be together for two weeks straight and to have no one sick!!! We really enjoyed seeing old friends too. It was a very, very refreshing time for both Ben and me.
A while back I posted a picture on facebook of the four kids, but I thought I'd share this one now because Andrew looks so cute here even though Anna isn't smiling.. or sitting up.. and her diaper is hanging out. But seriously, how amazing would this picture have been if Anna had been looking!?! Dah!
A couple weeks ago we were sick with some 24 hr stomach bug (which I would take ANY day over strep). We are getting REALLY good at getting sick. I'm thinking our finger sucking addiction is causing some of this... it's certainly not helping, that's for sure! Anyway, we think Drew may have started it but aren't sure. It went through Anna, then Grace, then me, then Caleb. And we were all better thinking it was over, and then it hit Ben. I had told Ben I wanted him to take the kids to the dentist because I thought it'd be a fairly traumatic experience, and I have this amazing ability to handicap our children with my very presence. Unfortunately, he was ill, so I had to take them. Grace was a CHAMPION!
Caleb refused to leave the waiting room with me and Grace, so I had to leave him there by himself while Grace and I went ahead in. I didn't want to have to perform some crazy dragging screaming kid maneuver to get him in the room. Of course when he went with Ben 6 months ago, he had no trouble (Remember, I handicap them with my presence?). Anyway, after Grace was settled in, I made my way back to the waiting room and convinced Caleb it was a brilliant idea to see the dentist. He chilled out pretty quickly. Both kids were a bit freaked out about the chair moving every which way.
So, Drewbie loves me. The most. In fact, I think he loves me more than any other kid has ever loved me at this age. He will be fine until I walk in a room, and then he will be immediately fussy until I hold him. Sometimes his love for me gets out of hand though.... Like when he is attacking my face with kisses and pulling my hair and glasses off. Although slightly uncomfortable, it's pretty stinking sweet to get Drewbie kisses.
Caleb and I are still plugging away with school. We are doing "Peter and the Wolf" for music, and it's SO fun!! We have cut outs of all the characters and what instruments the different characters are. When we went to the Seven Last Words performance last Sunday, Caleb recognized the flute playing and immediately told me it was the bird from Peter and the Wolf. I loved that!
This little guy has been crawling for a little under a month now, and he's getting pretty fast. He's only fallen down the stairs once so far (well really like one and a half times.).....oops. Thankfully just the stairs by the front door. And he hardly cried. Stop judging me.
I'll end with this. I took this today while I was laying in bed.. you know, since that's all I've been doing the past couple of days. I think they were discussing how they were going to make it through another day of mom being down. ;) They've been bonding the last few days.
Over and out!
Melanie
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