Turkey Hill Experience and The Baltimore Aquarium

 Grammy went with us as we decided to tackle the Turkey Hill Experience in Pennsylvania.  We ate A LOT of ice cream, but had fun creating flavors and making cute videos to "sell" their flavors. Crossed that off our summer bucket list!

 As the days were growing short we headed to the aquarium for one last summer visit with our friends the Kellys. And then Melody and I took them all to lunch. I am pretty sure we got a few "what in the world"....looks

2 1/2

Julian is 2 1/2! There aren't any check-ups in Maryland, but I think he is around 36" and 30

                                             JAKE bubbles!! Everytime!!

 at 2 1/2,  Julian
~is potty trained! It's crazy, but he was ready...even sleeping through the night. I ditched all our diapers and pull-ups! (I did switch him to cloth diapers a few weeks before...maybe that helped?)
~loves to be in JUST his undies
~is HILARIOUS, and knows it! He can give a sly eye like you wouldn't believe!
~LOVES his brothers, and talks about them ALL day, needs to know where they are, and wants to copy whatever they are doing(shirts off for wrestling...you better believe his is too..)
~could live in the sandbox
~is still receiving speech services for articulation, but is talking up a storm
~really started to love the swimming pool and jumping in it the last few weeks
~is a serious creature of habit-we sing the same 6 songs EVERY night in the SAME order
~must ask me for a lollipop at least 3x every day, milk 18x a day, and is my one child who doesn't care for vegetables
~loves Little People, cars, forts, Jake, Paw Patrol
~is my little snuggling buddy and gives Chris and I the best kisses

We love you sweet boy! You definitely completed our family!

Holden Beach 2015

We think this was our fourth trip to Holden Beach, which we love. The trip this year was a bit later in the summer than we have ever done it and I think we traveled down 95 with half the northeast. We had a full house this year with Don, Dottie, Pat, Lissa, Mike and Rachel. 

This boy is still a thumb sucker when he is super tired. 

But once we got there, it was party time! They added new lights in the pool this year which were a ton of fun at night!

Lots of games and games and games played this week. We had a little more rain than normal too, so we spent a little extra time inside.

 With ten people working on a 1000 piece puzzle, it goes quick. I think this took two days.

                                 Lots of skinny dipping going on by the ten and under crowd.

Julian started potty training the week before we left and the beach was a great place to keep it going. He is now even sleeping through the night! He was super pig EVERY.DAY. Lots of jumping off this couch.

                  We celebrated Lissa's birthday while we were there and we all got to enjoy daily desserts!

                                     Yearly beach pictures

 We spent a lot of time digging holes and making cars

The guys all had matching swim shorts so I started searching for anchor tank tops that I know I had seen ALL summer. I couldn't find any, so I made some-kinda...

                                         Boogie Boarding

                I wish Julian was behind us in this picture too-it would have been perfect!

We all had a great time with a lot of swimming. So long Holden Beach-we may not see you next year!