At the end of June we headed for Daddy's annual work conference. Because Noni was still on jury duty she wasn't able to go with us. When we found out there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Not to mention how the girls felt.
Just kidding, haha...of course the girls were super sad and there were a few tears and I considered staying home...for about five seconds, but then I told myself to buck up and get with the program. And the girls actually did great. The last day was a little rough trying to get all of us checked out of the hotel, but I had honestly expected every day to be that way. For the most part they were super helpful about carrying things, keeping the hotel room picked up, and they didn't whine when it was time to leave the pool to take a break and feed the baby.
The first night we got there and instead of going to our traditional dinner at a nicer restaurant we just grabbed Subway and some groceries from Walmart. Then we got the car unloaded and T took the four big girls down to the pool while I did some settling in. He brought Peaches back early because she was freezing. She was shaking with cold so I stuck her in the shower to warm up.
I was looking around trying to figure out what to give her to play with, but then I heard her singing. I snuck a video.
She stayed in there for a good 15 minutes, just singing away. :) I thought this shower was bizarre. That glass was fixed so the only way to turn on the shower was to get soaked. I found of pair of grill tongs and was able to get it on without getting completely wet. So weird.
There were two bedrooms and T, Lou, and I took the bigger one. We did ok with her sleeping in our room. She was a little fussy the first night and woke up super early...somewhere around 6. We put Peanut and Boo in the other room since they are our good sleepers. Bug got the living room couch and we put Peanut's pack and play in the attached dining room. Bug kept Peaches quiet in the early mornings.
Noni had taken the girls to Hobby Lobby before we left and let them pick out a couple fun things that were just for the trip. It kept them busy for each morning until it was time to head down to the pool.
We had three sets of ducks that kept coming around and the girls had so much fun watching them!
Here's a close up I got later. There was one mama with 6 tiny ducklings, one with 4 tiny ducklings, and one with two bigger ducklings. This is the 6. The other two are at the top of the picture.
The girls crafted and drew happily each morning. See that bowl of apples? At one point I looked over and saw Peaches trying to bite one. I said, "Honey! Those aren't real apples!" She looked at me quizzically and said, "They not?"
I took it from her and went to put it back and found this...
Goof ball. Apparently she had tried each and every one! And I totally forgot about it until I was editing these pictures. T had turned them over so you couldn't see the bites and I had meant to see if Walmart had any to replace them and then totally forgot! Whoops. Hopefully it will give the next guests a laugh. :P
The girls and I spent 5+ hours at the pool each day. We would head down around 9:30 stay till 11:30, head back to the room for lunch, come back at 12:30 and stay until 2:30 (the first day, and then they swam with Daddy from 4-5) the second day we stayed till 3:30.
They swam and swam and went down the slide - over to the hot tub - back to the pool, and then repeated the process about a hundred times each!
Lou actually did pretty well. She would get about an hour at the pool until some particularly loud noise would wake her up and then she would sit in my lap and bounce and watch the fun.
Peaches stayed on the steps and refused to go out in the water the first couple hours. Then she would go in her floaty as long as she was tightly gripping someone's hands.
But then by the end of the day after lots of singing and clapping games we got her comfortable enough to float around by herself as long as she had both her life jacket and floaty.
I was worried that she wouldn't want to wear her life jacket because she didn't last year, but I knew without any other adult supervision that she would have to wear it at all times and she did. She never seemed to think twice about it.
Such a cutie.
Daddy had his fancy dinner the second night, and the girls had already watched some tv in the hotel room so we headed out for a walk and decided to eat at the the pizza place rather than having it delivered. Then on our walk back we found a frozen yogurt place so of course we had to stop and give it a try. :)
Lou is rarely still these days, but this particular moment she was just lounging. :)
She loved this King sized bed! I would put pillows all around the perimeter and sit there reading my book and she would squirm and roll all over the bed!
Back to the pool for a nap.
Occasionally the pool would get crowded and have 20+ people there, but they never lasted very long. For the most part we had it to ourselves.
In the mornings I would sit in the sun while Lou slept in her car seat, but in the afternoons I swam with the girls when she slept. Peaches didn't last very long in the cold water and would come sit in the sun with me. It was another cold year. I think the highest it got was 77 and that was in the late afternoon. Most of the time we were swimming it was barely 70.
Buggy used some of her birthday money to buy this mermaid tail. :)
And she really did look like a mermaid swimming in the water!
Ok, the rest of the pictures tomorrow!
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