Our Beach Trip

Picture on the plane beginning our big adventure!



Our trip to Wrightsville Beach:





We took Harris on his first plane ride and first trip to the beach. This was his second time to see Eric's parents "Memaw and Papaw". I was soo stressed about this trip - primarily for the travel! We woke up at 4am almost missed our flight b/c little Austin airport for some reason was crowded as if it were Christmas! They were closing the gate in 2 minutes if we hadn't made it. We had a layover in DC and then flew to Raleigh and you were awake the whole time! I think we read the plane instructions on every flight - you loved the pictures of the planes - I think pre baby I had never looked at those once! Then we had a 2 hour car drive to the beach (all with a VERY busy toddler!)- can you say STRESS! But we made it and you did soo great and finally slept in the car.

Once we were there we had a fun time. You didn't know what to think about the beach the first day. It was cold too! We had you dressed in long sleeves for the 72 and windy weather. We hung out at the beach and played in the condo. The second day at the beach you had a lot of fun! We met a family from Arizona and once you saw some other boys playing you joined right in. They had some great beach toys that you loved.








This was not at the beach, just a funny pic. You stole the syrup from the fridge and ran away to sip on it. You love syrup! You eat waffles or french toast almost every morning. When we are tired and in a hurry you get oatmeal.

Memaw and you having a good time diggin in the sand.






First day: dressed warmly and somewhat not so sure of the beach. You liked the playscape at the condo the best on the first day. We stuck your toes in the water and you were not so excited about that!

Memaw, Papaw and you! They were excited to see you. They had not seen you since you were 8 weeks old.












Baby and Mama. I was cold!

Digging some more.

Second day!

Daddy attempting to build a sandcastle that you thought was soo funny to tear down!

You got in the water!

We had a fun trip! Next time we will go in August! Us Texans like it to be warm when we are at the beach. The water was too cold, even for daddy. I think we ventured out to maybe waist deep and just for a second! The flights home went pretty well. The last flight was the hardest with you. Daddy had to walk you and the nice older man next to us was very entertaining to you - he helped a lot!

17-18months old

We made a quick trip to Waco for a wedding shower for Lu, a trip to the Zoo, and to swim at Nonnies. Wow Waco has a great Zoo for such a little city! We were there 3 hours and didn't even finish! We are definitely going back soon when daddy has business in Waco! I think you loved the aquarium the best! The dark room and all the colorful fish were exciting to you! We were bad about taking pictures - we took 3 all weekend! It was soo hot and we were trying to go through fast b/c I had to get to the shower - so we forgot about pictures.

You loved swimming a Nonnie's. This was the 4th time for you to get into a pool this summer. We have been going to our subdivision pool after work and on the weekends. At first you didn't care too much for the water, but at Nonnies you were having fun splashing and watching Will and Annelise swim.

this was a cute pic from our Memorial Day Weekend at the ranch. Of course we didn't take many pics there also. We had a fun relaxing time (as relaxing as you can get with a busy toddler) just the 3 of us!

After changing your outfit 3 times (getting dirty and wet from the water hose) we let you go naked in your boots. After all that's how it should be in the summer- right!

Harris you are 1 1/2 years old! And you are a mess. You are a very busy bee. Everyone comments on how active you are! I know its a good thing - but I really would like if you would sit still a couple of times during the day.

What you are up to:

• You are very independent - you don't want us to help! It can be using your fork or spoon to pick up food or help you on the Ipad - we get a strong No! from you if we try to help.




• You love your Duplo blocks. We have had them for awhile and you never cared for them until now. You stack them and them push them around saying "choo choo" or "vroom vroom".




• You are all boy - you love cars trains, and planes. Ever since we flew on a plane you will point to the sky when you hear the planes go over. You can say "truck" and "car" an now know the difference between a car and a truck. You used to call everything a truck.




• You LOVE to play in the car. And you honk the horn with your foot - its the funniest thing! We have a tantrum when we go inside or we bribe you with something. Not so fun playing in the car right now since we are at 100 degrees most days already - but you seem to not notice the heat at all! Ha.
  
  
  


• You love to help water the plants- sometimes its the wrong plants or the pavement - ha.




• You have kind of gotten out of this stage - but you love to help scoop the dog poop! EVERY time we went outside you would point to the poop and say "dog poo" and run to find the bucket and scooper. We could not get out of picking it up! For the first time since we bought the house our yard was pretty close to being free of dog poop. Very hard task to keep up with when you have 3 dogs - but you helped us!



• You love the dogs to chase you. Reece is such a good sport about chasing you or letting you climb o her - she is such a great dog for you!



• You love to streak. Every time we take your clothes off or getting you naked you take off running. You think it is soo funny!
  


• You have gotten so good with baby signs. You can sign "more, please, and thank you" all thanks to daycare! It is soo hard to not give into you when you are rubbing you tummy so hard "saying please" - for things like gummys or the ipad.



• Your vocabulary keeps getting bigger. You are repeating us more. You attempt more words everyday.



• You love the Ipad and our phones still! We can't get on them in front of you or we have to give them to you.



• When you hear music you start dancing - it is soo cute!
  


• Sleeping - ahhh I have given up!!! I now believe what people told us before - you will never sleep again until your child is 18!!! Your sleep gets good and then goes down hill! I think it was all the traveling that messed it up lately. We went to the beach, then the ranch, and then to Nonnies, and now we have had 2 very bad nights! We had to do cry it out last night and this morning you were mad at me! You wouldn't come to me when we I came to get you out of the crib! Poor little guy! I can't wait until you are 4 - I'll lay on the couch and tell you to play and watch tv while I sleep! Ha! Or if we would let you sleep with us we would probably have no issues, but I have to tell myself No! because I don't want an 8 year old in my bed!



• Currently we are dealing with hitting and biting. It is hard to punish you because you are too young for spankings and I don't think you understand timeout. So we say"no!" but you just laugh at us and hit or bite again - so a little difficult time on how to get you to stop???
  


• Oh - "out to eat" has left our vocabulary! Since you could care less about eating, you will not sit in your high chair and want to run around the restaurant or have someone carry you around to look while the other person eats by them self! So now we eat a lot of togo food or we eat at the restaurants that have a playscape - thank goodness for those! Wish the nice restaurants would have playscapes - I could eat Eddie V's once a week! Ha!