October 29, 2016 - No Binky

The binky is gone! I can't remember if I posted about this previously because it was so short-lived. A few months ago we went to build a bear to put Adelynn's Binky inside of a stuffed toy. Of course she picked out a bear. After a couple days of restless sleep, and taking short naps, we decided that she wasn't ready. Fast forward to this week...and we have been talking about it with her, asking if she wants to put the binkies into her "Binky Bear," and she said yes. She was only using her binky at night and even then, she didn't seem to really care. She was excited that Saturday was the day and grabbed her Binky's. We went to the store, she put two of them into the bear along with a heart, and they closed it up. The first night she seemed a little sad but we reminded her that they were inside the bears tummy and that made her feel better. She's doing great with it...such a big girl!!! I think we miss it more than her...it was the last baby thing we had (no more diapers, crib and now binky!)

September 2, 2016 - Grandma Wetzel and Ann Visit

Grandma Wetzel came on Friday with her friend Ann. She watched the kids and made dinner while Scott and I went to the hospital for his procedure. Thank you! They were able to watch Bryannas first swimming lesson! 

 

August 11, 2016 - Uncle Jacob & Kayla Visit

We had such a fun visit from Uncle Jacob and Kayla. We went out to lunch, saw a movie, went to the mall and Kayla did the girls make up, which they loved! 

August 20, 2016 - 8th Anniversary Weekend!

Grandma and Grandpa Neal came to visit over the weekend so that Scott and I could go out for our anniversary. While we were gone, the kids had a great time! They got to walk the puppies and go to the mall. Grandma got Bryanna some new school clothes and Addy got a pretty dress! Thanks so much for watching them!

August 27, 2016 - Raspberry Picking, Colors, Bikes

We had such a fun weekend. We found a good deal on a bike attachment for Bry and a child bike seat for Adelynn, so we had a lot of fun riding bikes. We also went raspberry picking for the first time and they were yummy!!

Adelynn has started to name some colors. I noticed she started calling out black items and Scott noticed her naming blue, purple.

Yewwo - says other now - August 27

July 19, 2016 - No More Diapers!

Adelynn has not peed in her diaper at naptime or overnight in the last 2ish months. All of a sudden one day she just stopped.  A few weeks ago we decided to stop putting a diaper on during naps, so we were only using them at night. We decided that when we were out of diapers then that was it! Tonight was her last diaper. This is so exciting but also sad, our baby is growing up!

June 25, 2016 - Grandma and Grandpa Wetzel Visit

Peekeeeboo and wants to do everything herself and be like big sis - June 28th

We had a nice visit with Grandma and Grandpa Wetzel. We had beautiful weather again and were able to spend some time in the pool. They took the kids to the zoo while Scott and I got some yard work done...the kids had a blast! We also celebrated Bryanna's birthday with them.

June 18, 2016 - Bryanna's Birthday Party, Grandma & Grandpa Neal Visit,Father's Day

Bryanna had her birthday party this weekend. Grandma and Grandpa got here around 10am and we put them straight to work. Grandma helped cut and put all the trays together and Grandpa helped watch the kids. Bry had 15 of her friends here and they had a blast!

Happy Fathers's Day! We had beautiful weather and just spent the day hanging out...it was great!

June 4, 2016 - Grandpa and Grammy Kelly Visit

The kids had a good time this weekend. Grandmpa and Grammy Kelly came to visit (Klelly, Lelly, Glelly as Adelynn says) and were able to watch Bryanna's Big Show where she received the only award! 

Watching Bry at the show 

Hi Bry!

After the show Adelynn wanted to be a gymnast like Bry!

May 29, 2016 - Grandma & Grandpa Neal Visit

Grandma and Grandpa came to visit and watch Bry walk in the Memorial Day Parade. The girls took the puppies for lots of walks and really love that, Bry walked Lady all by herself and Adelynn got to help walk Tramp. They showed Grandma and Grandpa their water slide and bounce house...Grandma was brave and tried the slide too!

May 15, 2016 - Tooth, Potty

Upper left cuspid May 5th.

She peed on potty twice on May 6th. We are so proud of her! I think she wants to be like Bry and pee on the potty like a big girl.

No accidents!! May 10th

Peed on potty at the zoo! We went to the zoo with Everett and I forgot a change of clothes. We didn't do many outings without diapers but no accident! Yay! May 11th

Loves to play playdoh for a while now.

Saying Bryanna now. My baby is getting so big! May 15th.

April 28, 2016 - Words

Loves to rumble April 24
Ahslee - ice cream
Loves to pretend play

Figured out R's (letter R sound) - April 28
Jumping and running good

April 21, 2016 - Florida Vacation!

We had such an amazing trip this year. We didn't think that we could top last years vacation, but we just might have. Thank you sooooo much to Grandpa and Grammy Kelly for letting us stay at your condo, we appreciate it so much!

Day 1
We woke up around 2:45am and tried to transfer the kids to their car seats, hoping they would sleep on the ride to the airport. Well, we don't have the type of kids that fall asleep anywhere, ours like to keep themselves awake as long as possible because they don't want to miss anything. We got to the airport later than expected. Getting to the Newark Airport isn't as easy as any other airport that we have been to and we ended up on rt 80 somehow...then it was a nightmare to get to the long term parking. We took a bus to the airport and at that point were really positive we were going to miss our flight. The ticket agent mentioned that I was Pre TSA, and that the kids were also, but even though Scott wasn't, we could go through the Pre TSA line. We went to that line, waited 10 minutes just to be told that we could not go through that line. At this point, we had 30 minutes to get on the plane. We still had to go through a 30-45 minute line just to get to the security line, so that definitely wasn't going to happen. I found the ticket agent again and she miraculously put us at the front of the line. We went through security, ran to gate C and were the last ones to board the plane...oh happy day! Thank god the rest of the day was a breeze. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention we forgot Adelynn's car seat while we were in rush to get on the bus at the long term parking, but luckily we were able to rent one at basically the same price to transport ours.

Excited to be here!

A little tired

We are tired but lets go to the pool!

 First painted toes!

 

Day 2

We wanted to try a new beach this time so we headed to Lovers Key. We saw a little owl poking his head out from his hole on our way in, then we saw some needle fish (that's what we are calling them anyway) when walking over the bridge and nestled ourselves onto the beach. I was a little happy that it was cloudy because it was a little humid that day. No one was complaining of the heat, which was nice for a change. Adelynn HATES the sand! We have some work to do on that, she doesn't mind playing with it, but really hates it when it touches her feet. She took a nice nap on the beach while we looked for shells and swam a little.

 

Bryanna named them Needle, Needie, and Deedie. 

 

Then we went to Bahama Breeze. 

 

Then we spotted one on the way back to the condo!

After nap time we took a drive to the huge flea market.

 

Day 4

We took a drive to Naples Zoo. We really liked this zoo and saw a lot of animals that we don't see in the zoo's up north. The grounds of the zoo were beautiful as well and very tropical.

 

These guys wanted food!

 

She loved the animals but seemed more interested in picking up the shells from the ground and putting them through the fence.

Day 5

Siesta Key was a place that we were really excited to visit. It was so beautiful! The sand never gets hot and the water is a turquoise color like the Caribbean. We couldn't have asked for a more perfect day.

Day 6
We decided to go to Lakes Park again and spend the day there. We rented a family bike and petaled around the park. We spotted lots of wild life and the kids really loved sitting in the front.

 

 

 Ice cream break! I think we ended up getting ice cream every day...can't have enough of that!

After Addy's nap, we drove to Fort Myers Beach where we ate at our favorite restaurant located right on the beach. After dinner, we took a nice long walk while watching the sun set.

We found some awesome creatures including a horseshoe crab, starfish, sand dollar, sting ray and we saw a dolphin!

On our way back to the condo we spotted this gecko...they are such strange creatures! Scott made it move and it scurried away so fast! He ran all the way up to the 3rd floor right in front of our door...maybe it's the same one as last year!

Day 7

It wouldn't be a Florida trip without some shelling! We headed to Sanibel Island, Bowman's Beach specifically, for some beach time and shelling.  

Addy didn't have a hard time napping on the beach with the waves crashing in the background.

She played in the sand a little bit, but made sure to get the sand off her feet!

After the beach, we decided to drive further down the Island to Captiva Beach, but first a stop at Starbucks! Captiva beaches were beautiful and the drive was nice too. We saw beautifully landscaped mansions and some neat shops. We will definitely spend a day here next year!

We saw some additional beach parking spots on our way to Captiva and stopped to check them out. This is Blind Pass beach on Sanibel. There were shells galore!

No way was she walking on this beach!

We noticed lots of people shelling out on these little islands so Scott had to take a peak. He ended up finding some beauties! Bryanna wasn't able to go with him because of the strong current. I circled Scott in the picture below.

We thought this was pretty cool to see this Osprey with his dinner!

Our finds!

Day 8

Good morning!

We had a little time to kill so we headed to Lakes Park again...I don't think we could get enough of this park! We went on the train for the 3rd time...so fun!

Other than 2 parking tickets, and finding out that our car battery died on the way home, we had such an amazing trip! No meltdowns, beautiful dry weather, saw lots of creatures (some that we haven't seen before), and made lots of new memories. Two of Scott's goals for this trip were to see wild alligators and catch one of those lizards and he was able to accomplish both of those things! LOL Can't wait until next time, Florida!