Road Trip

We woke up early enough this morning to make pancakes for Daddy before he left for the beach. Liam wanted to help, so I had him go downstairs and get his chef hat. He made some great banana pancakes . . .

After the gym we hit the road with Nana to Cape May. We went to visit our cousins and Liam napped the whole way down . . . I think he was dreaming of pancakes . . .
Liam and his cousins Ryan and Karly
(3rd cousins I think, not sure how that works, Liam's PopPop and their Grandma are 1st cousins)

So cute . . . the brown one is mine - I swear I use sunscreen on him . . .

We had tons of fun catching up and the kids had a great time playing together!

Missing Baby

Help!

I lost my baby.

I woke up this morning to this kid sleeping in my baby's bed . . .

I miss all the chubbiness he used to have.

(He's wearing a visor backwards - I don't know why he insists on wearing hats backwards - it drives Casey nuts)

What I Heart Most About the Beach . . .

2 glorious hours

*side note - Daddy's team won the last tournament of the season tonight at IBSP!!! And two more nights of swimming and then Mommy is done for a little while - we can actually have dinner together during the week!

Liam Swimming without his bubble

Liam fights with us now about wearing his bubble to swim. He thinks he doesn't need it, but what he considers swimming is really trying not to drown. So after swimming around for awhile, we let him go without it for a few minutes and he is thrilled. . .

Water Park

Friday afternoon we went to Breakwater Beach with Liam's cousins . . . I haven't been there since I was in high school and didn't know what to expect with Liam and the slides.

At first he was happy playing in the toddler area and going

down the small slides they had there . . .

He was not happy at first with the lazy river . . . he wanted to swim and not be in a tube, but eventually he settled down enough to smile with Mommy . . .Then he wanted to be a big kid. He went down this blue slide ALONE 3 times. I wasn't allowed to take him on my lap and he kept saying he wanted to go down it, so I let him go and I would go before or after him.

Here he is at the end . . .
This one we went down next to each other. . . Liam is the giant splash on the left and for some reason, I am on the right with the smaller splash ( I swear)

We are going to miss Liam's cousins . . . They are on their way back to Zimbabwe tonight

Monkey

Besides being potty-trained (hence all the pictures of him in his underwear) Liam turned from a little boy to a little monkey in the past few months. I haven't caught all his crazy stunts on camera, but here are a few from this week. . .

Brushing his teeth by himself ( I also found him sitting on the counter washing his feet the other day, and standing on the counter using the toothbrushes as drumsticks against the mirror)
Brushing his hair while sitting on his changing table

And cleaning out the nose while he's up there

and climbing up the slide which is a big no-no here

It's amazing that our first trip to the ER with him was NOT for a fall-related injury

The joys of having a boy

Crabbing

Yesterday Liam took a late nap so we didn't get to the beach, instead we went over to Aunt Jaclyn's and catch ourselves some dinner . . .

Pop Pop and Nana were there too and we ended up catching over 30 crabs
The swans came up close to see what was going on . . .

Aunt Jaclyn's house is the one to the right of the steps

Our dinner - we ate them all