We’ve had so much fun during our vacation we hate to see it come to an end. But we had a special visitor stop by to help soften the blow. Uncle William swung by to pay us a visit during his annual military leave. It’s always good to see Will and as you can tell from the pictures below, Adalyn adored him. We’re crossing our fingers he gets his promotion and is stationed closer to us so we can see him more often. A year is just too darn long to have to wait to see family.
To round off our vacation, and in keeping with the water theme, we took Adalyn to the Georgia Aquarium. It’s crazy to look back at the last time we took Adalyn to an aquarium and see how much she’s changed. She was a mere 4 months old and could only enjoy the action from Mommy or Daddy’s arms. But this time, she ran around, banged on glass (the attendants loved that), “talked” to all the fishes she saw, and tried her best to get the attention of all the other little kids scurrying around. Oh, and she ADORED the dolphin show, getting excited every time a dolphin danced on top of or flipped out of the water. In the animation below, I caught a diver swimming around one of the tanks blowing Adalyn a kiss. You could see the shock in the diver’s face when Adalyn blew her a kiss back. It was adorable.
The pool at the Sonesta Resort turned out to be perfect. I have a whole new respect for zero entry pools. They are fantastic for people with little kids. Adalyn was able to walk, okay run, right into the shallow end and play with the three miniature spray nozzles that the hotel called kiddie features (ha!). I can’t be too snarky though. Like the sand on the beach, they provided hours of entertainment for our little fish.
Adalyn surprised Mommy and Daddy by how much she loved playing at the beach this trip. Until now, she really hasn’t been very enthusiastic when it came to playing in the surf and sand. Boy have things changed. She could have sat there for hours (and she did) just scooping up fist fulls of sand, squeezing them as hard as she could, and then throwing them into the water. She did this over and over only stopping when a seagull caught her attention. She never did catch that bird. But it wasn’t from lack of trying. I never knew those little legs could move so fast.
We’ve been hitting the pool in the mornings and the beach in the evenings. If Adalyn had her way, we would never leave either one. She is having an absolute blast playing in the sand at the beach and the kiddie-fountains around the pool. More pics to come soon. In the meantime, I was able to wrangle her up for a little Addy Daddy time.
Adalyn’s love for hair bows is trumped only by her infallible taste in sippy cups. 😉 FYI: Adalyn’s throat culture swab has been moved to tomorrow. Hopefully we can get a rush on the results and know if we’ve kicked this pseudomonas bacteria or not. We’re keeping our fingers tightly crossed.
This long Labor Day weekend has flown by for our family. Staying true to the holiday’s name, we worked all weekend long getting our belongings out of our house and into storage in order to be ready for closing tomorrow. We’re all exhausted. The work was only temporarily stopped for an afternoon birthday celebration for my Grandfather who turned 90 (Happy Birthday Pops!) and a quick dinner in honor of my In-law’s 35th wedding anniversary. While we were loading up the last of our things, Adalyn was itching to play with the ducks one last time. How could we resist? She had a blast feeding them pieces of bread. Although, over the years, we’ve found they prefer a handful of Cap’n Crunch over anything else.
