New Toys

Yesterday Eli and I headed over to Krista's house for a day of baking. We had a lot of fun making fruit roll-ups. They are pretty yummy, although I don't think I let mine bake quite long enough. They are still pretty good, though, and all natural! Maybe I'll save some for Ben...if they last that long! Okay, okay, Carly can have some too... :) I'm hoping Krista will post our 'work' on her site :) (If you are really interested in making some, we got the idea off of this site.) Anyway, back to my story...As I was gathering everything up on my way out the door at Krista's, I managed to forget my camera. You have no idea how sad I am! I don't think I will have it for about week :( What am I to do?! Well...my solution is my pixely old (well...not too old) cell phone. So, I apologize now for the not so great pictures, but I couldn't resist snapin' some shots of Eli playing with his 'new' (aka hand-me-down's from Katie) toys.

Edgar and I have decided we love little people toys. Eli likes them too...but I gotta be honest, it's fun to have toys that I can play with too :) As evidenced by the next photo:

Yes...I set up my own 'Little People' homestead. I have heard rumors that Krista has a Little People farm too. I am so excited!

Truth is...Eli would be just as happy playing with the container they came in...for now. He does like playing with them too-they are the perfect size for his cute little hands. He's been playing with them all morning. I should have taken the opportunity to get some work done while he played, but I couldn't resist playing with him :) He was being extra cute today! (Groan...I wish I had my camera...) Hey Krista...we might be stopping by sooner than later...to get my camera...I mean to hang out :)

Back at the Fountains

Today Eli and I headed back to the splash pad to play with some friends. Eli seemed to enjoy the water a bit better this time-he even reached out to try and grab it :)

Christine and Olivia joined us. Bri and Kaz came too...but they didn't quite make it into the water.

I'm not sure Olivia knows what to think about the water...

'How does it do that?!'

I'm pretty sure the kids enjoyed the toys Christine brought more than the water, but oh well. It's more fun to play with toys when you're all wet, right?!

Unfortunately about 10 minutes after the kids had gotten in, it started to thunder, so we packed them up...

...and headed inside.

That's when we caught up with Bri and Kaz. It was a little disappointing to not be able to play longer, but it looked like it was going to rain for a while, so we decided to try again next week. SO, the good news is you will see more super cute pictures of these crazy kids next week :)

Now I must get working on my stuff for classes. I go back to my 2-day a week classes on Aug 18, and I have lots to do. It's amazing how much blogging I get done when I'm suppose to be doing something else...

National Watermelon Day

Did you know today is National Watermelon Day? Today we went to a playgroup to celebrate. All of the kids wore red, green or black.
It was pretty fun.

Eli tried some watermelon..then later I noticed some watermelon colored spit-up all down his shirt...not sure how much he liked it...

Eli got to play with some new friends :)

We had loads of fun!

The Lighthouse

After leaving the beach today we headed over to the Ponce DeLeon Lighthouse. I will warn you...there are lots of pictures to follow.

Here's the lighthouse.

Yup...we walked up all those steps...

...to see this view. Beautiful.

I tried not to look down...

Edgar walked up all those steps (all 203 of them) while carrying Eli. Aren't dads good to have around?!

Mommy steps out from behind the camera every now and then :)

Look at Eli's hair! It was nice and breezy at the top.

Mom and dad made it to the top too.

We stayed up for a bit...

...and then headed back down.

Hold on tight daddy!

Safe at the bottom!

This is not the light that was actually at the top-you couldn't go into the area with the light, but it was a light in a room in the lighthouse museum.

Hey. Good to see you.

We had to take a quick trip to the car to feed Eli, and he thought we should go for a little ride.

Family shot.

Abuela & Abuelo.

Here's a quick video of Eli enjoying the view from the top.

Still in Daytona...

I know I said that I would be posting again on Saturday...but I was so tired! I think getting no sleep the night before did me in.

Saturday was a fantastic day despite being tired. Edgar, Eli and I headed out to the beach at 10:30 and played in the water for a bit. Eli was a bit hesitant at first, but as soon as he got used to the cool water, he had fun. Right after we got out there Edgar realized he forgot his sunglasses, so he ran back in. Eli and I went out to the water, and sat down in the waves. Well...mommy miscalculated the waves a bit, and the first wave to come over our lap was pretty big...Eli was scared, and started crying, so I picked him up...then his hat flew off, the 3 sand pails, 4 water balls, and shovel started floating away. So I'm holding my crying baby, chasing his hat and all these things, wishing I had reminded my husband to grab his sunglasses. Fortunately, everything was captured, and we moved back a bit and enjoyed the water.

Krista, Eliott and Katie arrived shortly after 11, and we played for a while. Eliott and Krista had to run in for a bit to change and stuff, so Edgar and I took Eli and Katie into the waves. We had fun getting splashed :) Katie got laughing so hard! It was very cute. We headed back and built a sand castle and got completely covered in sand-but that's the point of the beach, right?! I went back into the water to rinse off, and totally got sucked into playing in the waves :) They were so big! I got laughing so hard-which was a little silly, seeing as I was by myself. I was wishing I had someone to enjoy the waves with, but oh well. I will say, however, the waves were very strong...if you ever go in those waves, be sure that your bathing suit is secured. I won't say any more...

Believe it or not, I did not take any pictures of this trip to the beach. I KNOW! As Eli and I were sitting on the beach I decided I just wanted to enjoy being with my baby and not try and stay clean and dry for a camera. Krista took some shots, so I will be stealing pictures from her :)

The no camera thing didn't last long :) We went back to the room around 1 and Eli took a bath. I couldn't resist taking a picture of my naked kid :)

After his bath he watched Veggie Tales (I think it was 'Little Joe' or something like that). It was the first time he had seen that video, and he giggled and clapped the whole way through. It was adorable. I had planned on doing a few things while he watched it, but I got so caught up in watching him (and I'll admit...I watched the video too...Veggie Tales is just WAY too entertaining...) that I didn't get anything done.

Katie came over and watched with Eli.

After Eli's nap we got ready and headed to Olive Garden where I ate my weight in pasta. It was SO yummy. Eli did so good. It was WAY past his bedtime, but you never would have known. He didn't get fussy or anything. He got to bed around 9:00 and slept great until 7. He got in bed with us again, but I didn't really mind. He's so snugly in the morning.

After a little breakfast we went for another walk on the beach. Eli was ready for one more trip down to the water!

Enjoy a short little video of my happy little boy!

Good Morning!

Here comes the sun (do do do do...) Last night was kind of a long night for me. I think because I was sleeping in the same room as Eli I heard every movement he made, and was awake most of the night...oh well. At 4:30 he started crying so I brought him in bed with us where he stayed until 6:30. He slept for maybe 45 minutes of that 2 hours...So we got up at 6:30 to go see the sunrise on the beach. Here are some pictures :)

At 8:30 we all went for a walk-Eli's stroller worked great once we got to the packed down sand by the water.

Yes, you can drive on the beach here...

Mom and dad

The boys...

The water was cold, but Eli seemed to like getting his feet wet!

Enjoying the view :)

I'm sure I'll update again during his afternoon nap. We're having a blast!