Life in the South

The trials and tribulations of parenthood and living away from family from a "Yankee" raising a baby in the south.

Sunday, June 06, 2010

Jake's first kiss



Instead of a play date us girls headed down to the Aquarium to see the fishes. The kids LOVED it! They really had so much fun checking out the animals. The cutest part of it? Megan told Camryn to go give Jakey a kiss, and she did it! (and I captured it on film!)

Afterwards we headed over to Johnny Rockets for lunch. They had the most amazing service. They opened the door to let the 3 strollers in, took the strollers to park them elsewhere so we had room, lined up the high chairs for us, brought the kids hats, 10 minutes later brought them balloons, they did an excellent job of keeping us all entertained! Pictures of the outing here.


One more thing, check out this awesome picture that we had Amanda's mother in law take of all of us at the zoo. Amanda wins the mom of the year award, baby Noah is 1 week old in this picture and she was at the zoo!!! Now you can put faces with all of the names. From left to right: Melissa (in light blue) with Avery (16 months), Me and Jake (15 months), Amanda (pink with gray sweater) with Addison (23 months) and baby Noah (again, 1 week!), and Megan is seated in the front with Camryn (17 months).

Memorial Day



Well, so long to our hot tub. It's amazing how your priorities change once a little one joins the family. I remember 3 years ago when we bought this house we were so psyched that it had a hot tub. We actually just gave the hot tub away for free, all the people had to do was haul it away. We hadn't used it since before I got pregnant with Jake and we needed room for the kiddie pool! We broke the kiddie pool in last weekend with an awesome cookout with our friends. There were 12 grown ups and 4 kids and a newborn. Wow, is all I have to say. The kids had so much fun, they were running around like crazy kids! They were all very much enjoying to pool when the first clap of thunder hit. We moved everyone inside and my amazing trooper of a husband ended up grilling in the pouring down rain. It was a great time had by all and pictures of the kiddos here.