Fun At Home

The coloring books were colored out, the books all read, movies all watched, stickers no longer sticking. It had been a fun day, filled with lots of activities, but Mya and I were about to have our greatest adventure yet! We pulled out the blankets, got some puzzles and snacks and made, for the first time here, a FORT!!! Yes, I said fort! After working to prepare our fort, Mya and I dove right in and had the time of our lives! 

We played puzzle and ate snacks, and just whispered secrets and giggled. Mya was full of lots of secrets! She would whisper and whisper. She thinks it's funny! Ha! She's so cute! I think I say that every post, but oh well, she is! We didn't do much in that fort, but we sure had the best time. 

Monday Outings

Monday: The day that we get to go and play. Recently we went to Gulf Shores beaches. Beautiful. The water was warm and so inviting. The sand, white and soft. 

Mya just loves the beach. It's so cute to watch her go from just letting the water lap her feet, to letting big waves hit her and still wear a smile. (Don't worry, Vince and I are there holding onto her and not, I repeat, NOT letting her drown) She really likes it when waves crash into her. She gets a thrill over being lifted up by the water. 

We were at the beach for a whole 20 min when I saw something floating in on a wave and heading in our direction. I soon realized it was a sting ray. I quickly said "Vince, sting ray" and we scooped up Mya and headed back to shore. Being very calm and not alarming our small little girl who is knew to the ocean. We watched as the sting ray came in and drifted away. My heart pounding, we decided to take a water break and set out our towels and look for seashells. Mya loves to collect seashells. She says "Shee-shells" when she spots one. It's fun to watch her play in the sand and not worry about her running into the ocean. She's a smart little thing for being new to it. She doesn't run into unless you're there with her. She's more than content sitting and playing with her "shee-shells" in the sand. 

After what seemed like forever, we decided to head back into the water. Mya was all for it, having not known what had happened earlier. Once again, we were playing and laughing, enjoying our time as a family. shrieking with delight when Daddy found cool things in the water and snickering when Mom got taken out by a wave, which happened too much for my liking. Soon enough, we spotted another sting ray and had to head back to shore. We spotted 3 total that day. It was cool and I wish I got a picture, but my camera was in our backpack up on the beach. :( 

After getting drenched by wave after wave and getting the worst sunburn of this year, we decided to call it a day and head on home.

Until next time...

Cookies!

Today Mya and I decided to make some cookies. Mya only wanted to eat the cookies dough. So I gave her the beaters and let her go to town while I rolled them out and cooked them. It was fun and we giggled a lot! 

Not a very big post, but a very cute picture! :)

KaNgArOoS :)

On Vince's day off we decided we would take Mya to a place called Kangaroos. It's a big play place for little kids. They have blow up toys that you can jump in and big blow up slides that you can slide down. Only, it's just for kids, but if you're lucky enough to have a young enough child, you can play on them as well. So Vince took full advantage of that (as I was not feeling very well) Just to warn everyone, my camera wasn't focusing very well, so their kind of blurry. (sorry)

We weren't there for more than 15 min before Mya got sick and threw up on our way running to the bathroom. Poor thing and yes, I got it on me too. After we got her cleaned up (and me)and got some sprite into her system, she seemed to wake up and wanted to GO GO GO! She was everywhere!

She ran around in this toy for about a half hour. Just ran around in circles. Circle after circle. It made me kinda dizzy! :) 

After a rough start, Vince and Mya were running and sliding like crazy! Mya had so much fun following and imitating Daddy. I think Vince enjoyed himself too! Ha, he was also wearing big grins and laughing right along with Mya. I just love to sit back and watch how he interacts with Mya. Full of love and adoration. It's something I won't ever get enough of! :) 

After a couple of hours of running, panting, and laughing, we decided to head on home. Well Mya ran up to a toy she wasn't big enough for and climbed right on in. Good thing there was no one in the place. So Vince went in right after her and played for a couple minutes, but as Vince was climbing out, he stepped on the inflatable step and it caved in and down him and Mya went! He did some sort of twirl and Mya never hit the ground! It was kinda cool and terrifying to watch. Don't worry, Vince was fine. We laughed so hard after we made sure everyone was ok. 

Mya had a fun, rough day. Starting out with throwing up, to smacking her face on a tall slide and falling with Vince out of a toy, but we had a good time spending it together as a family. Until next time...:)