SeaWorld

We met Mimi & Grant in San Antonio this past weekend for a fun trip to Sea World. There was something there for everyone to enjoy and we all had a great time.

Breakfast with Sesame Street characters

J was a little apprehensive of these giant monsters at first, but warmed up pretty quickly

Zoey

Abby Cadabby

Mimi & Bert

Ernie

Zoey again

The Count


Dolphin interaction

VERY cool

feeding the dolphin fish

Sharks!

Clydesdale

Pics with some characters we found around the park

J got up on this stage & started dancing & jumping around - it was so cute! The penguin was dancing along beside him.

Grant & Lily on the Shamu roller coaster

Countdown to Halloween show

Shamu's 'Believe' show

Brian, Grant & Lily are sitting in the 'splash zone' (Grant in the white hat & yellow shirt - Lily & Brian beside him) - and you can see one of the whales getting ready to soak the whole audience - we all got lucky though & none of us got wet.

Patiently waiting for Lily & Grant to come down the log ride

There they are!

We're Going to the Zoo, Zoo, Zoo!

I took the kids to the zoo this weekend. It was supposed to be a nice, sunny 67 degree day - perfect for the zoo - which turned into a chilly 54 degree day...but we had fun just the same. This was the first time Jake went to the zoo and actually noticed the animals instead of just looking at us confused when we tried to point something out. I think he was more excited to have free reign of the zoo though since I didn't insist he stay strapped into the stroller.

Fun in the play area

Giraffes!

You can get pretty close to them here

Enjoying the flamingos
Elephants

My cute little monkey

Very impressed with the lions

Looking at Lily like she's lunch!

These squares made noise when you stepped on them, but JT was not heavy enough to set them off! He was getting so frustrated and refused to leave - he kept running back to these whenever we tried to go look at something else. He finally figured out that if he "jumped" (he's not a great jumper yet) on them he could get them to go off - and we were finally on our way. :o)

Very realistic lizard - both kids were terrified until I proved to them it was fake. :o)

One last shot from our fun day at the zoo

A Day in the Life of JT

This is the life

"I love my puppy"

"Bathtime!"

"A little work on the computer to start out my day"

"Playing outside every day is a MUST!"

"I'm just going to take a little rest here on the couch...don't worry, I'm not up to anything bad, I promise"

"I didn't do it! I swear, I found it like this..."

"Time to wash the car...I'm going to show Daddy how this is done!"

"What's that smell?"

"Where's the food?!"

Pumpkin Fun

Mimi & Grant came to visit last weekend and we all took a trip to a local farm that has some fun fall activities. Luckily the rain help out just long enough for us to enjoy ourselves without getting drenched. :o)

Wagon rides courtesy of JT

Pumpkin painting


Tattoos
(not sure when this became a "fun fall activity", but we'll go with it)


Train ride

Hayride

Our haul for the day

Guess What?

Miss Lily lost her first tooth!!!

Her tooth has been wiggly for a while now, but it was being pretty stubborn about not wanting to come out. On Saturday night, we had pizza for dinner and when she bit into it, her tooth became SUPER DUPER wiggly, but was still not ready to come out. On Sunday morning, she was wiggling it in the shower while she was getting ready for church and it popped right out! One second she is talking to me, then she gets real quiet for a second and all of a sudden shouts "MOM! My tooth came out!!". I told her not to drop it down the drain & to get out real quick & put it on the sink. :o) She was SO excited!

She put it under her pillow that night & was so anxious about the tooth fairy coming to visit, she couldn't fall asleep. When she woke up in the morning, her tooth was gone & in it's place were 2 gold coins and some fairy dust!

She already has another wiggly tooth and she's trying to convince one of us to pull it out for her so the tooth fairy can make another visit to out house...we told her she's just going to have to wait until it's ready to come out on it's own, and that she has lots of tooth fairy visits to look forward to in the future.