Our Mini Vacation

This summer Marcus and I headed to the Caymans in August.  We went for a 3 night getaway.  My parents came to our house and held down the fort for us while we enjoyed the beach, relaxing, and each other :)  We ate at some YUMMY restaurants, relaxed by the beach, and snorkeled. 

Beautiful Sunset Our little friend walking on our patio

  The amazing water…so calm and clear!  Sting rays would swim up close to the beach!

  We stayed at the Westin…our room was on the corner first level walk out right to the beach AHHHHH!

No Training Wheels

This summer was so hot…it was not enjoyable to be outside for extended periods of time unless we were soaking in the pool.  Mason kept asking and asking if we would take his training wheels off his bike….with us being out of town so much too…we FINALLY were able to take them off!  Right before his 5th birthday we stripped the bike of the training wheels, suited Mason up in head to toe gear and sent him off!  Marcus worked with him for quite a while one Saturday afternoon.  By early evening Mason was a confident 2 wheeled bike rider.  The next step was teaching him how to start and stop by himself.  That Sunday he hopped back on the bike and mastered stopping and starting in no time.  My mom said when I learned to ride a bike I wouldn’t stop my bike…when I was ready to get off I would just JUMP!  I’m glad he has decided against that ;)  I am so glad he loves to be outside riding his bike and playing…Madelyn however is my homebody who loves some TV!

 

I’m A Big Girl Now!

Madelyn had been using the BIG potty for a while!  We would put her up on the potty right before bath time or when we were changing outside from our swimsuit.  This summer was so busy…I just couldn’t find a LOOOONGGG stretch of time we were home to get down and dirty and finally potty train my lil girl.  Some say their second child would watch their OLDER sibling and want to be just like them…not my Madelyn!  She did not care at all if she sat in a dirty diaper so I was unsure how this little process was going to go!  SOOO finally in August when Marcus and I returned form our vaca it was GO TIME!  I had been talking up big girl panties for quite some time so we were off to our fav store TARGET :)  There she picked out her favorite character panties and we went to the dollar isle and she picked out tons of dollar prizes and some M&M’s.  We were armed and ready!  There was no turning back!!! She again proves me wrong.

Day 1: One pee pee accident…no poo today!

Day 2:  I knew we were in for a long day of back and forth to the potty since Madelyn who is usually regular had not pooed the day before!  We had just walked in the door after making a donut run!  She said “i gotta poo poo” so I hurriedly swept her up and off we went!  We sat and sat and sat…I knew she needed to go, but was just not confident enough to go.  Well I bribed and bribed her to go and she wouldn’t.  Just as I was about to take her off the potty…our garage door to the house OPENED!  I think that startled her and  WAHLAH poo in the potty!  It literally scared the poo out of her.  From then on she has had NO problem pooing in the potty :)  HOWEVER, that afternoon she did have another pee pee accident for only 2 accidents total!

Day 3:  1 tee tee accident and LAST ACCIDENT :)  from here on “I ready to go tee tee” and she has right in the big girl potty :)  Mason wasn’t too terribly hard to potty train, but Madelyn MUCH MUCH EASIER :) 

Soccer

This season is Mason’s 3rd season to play soccer….This is by far his favorite sport! He is a great little player!  We are 4 games into the season and he just keeps getting better and better.  This last game he scored 5 goals :)  The first game Marcus had to coach one of the teams (we play 3v3 and split team into 2 teams) I think Marcus really enjoyed it…the kids did great!  I am sure Coach Marcus will get a chance to coach again very soon ;)

The Purple Dragons

Our cheerleader is trying to find some shade :)

The Woodlands

A few years ago my family took a family vacation to The Woodlands Resort!  After debating….we decided we would go there again this summer for our family get together again!  The kids have a blast with the many activities they offer.  We were at the pool all weekend long swimming, sliding, getting balloon animals made, face painting, listening/dancing to the band, making smores, and of course eating…drinking…and spending time together! We headed to the pool first thing in the morning and stayed pretty much till dinner time.  We would eat at the grill at the pool, and then play a little more till the little bitty ones were EXHAUSTED!  Mason even convinced Papa to slide down the big slide with him….Papa happily went ONCE  :) with him! After the fun filled weekend swimming and just hanging out our mini vacation with Nanny and Papa was over…time flies when your having fun!!!