Spring has Sprung... Lots of Fun!

Wow, May is over already! But what a fun month we’ve had! The weather is getting warmer, and that allowed us to have a lot of fun times outside. It also rained…A LOT… so we also had to find some fun activities inside too… We had a very active month with a bunch of activities, and I’m wracking my brain trying to remember all the stuff we did. We had visits to Pop at the bay house, Granny for lunch, a visit from Grandma (and she also came down for a visit too), and even dinner with Great Mom-Mom, and a trip to visit Grandpa and Grandma Bev. A bouncy play date & lunch with Melissa and Alik, a dinner play date with Robyn, Jaime and Sofia and so many other fun activities, it’s hard to remember them all.

I think it’s fair to say that we’re really going to enjoy this summer. Owen is enjoying every minute we get to play outside and enjoying all the warm weather activities – bikes, playground, sand box, pool and baby pool, watering flowers, all the good stuff! Last summer was so consumed with moving that we didn’t enjoy it nearly as much… This summer is going to be different, I can tell…

We bought Owen a sandbox last month, due to his overwhelming fear of being messy and he HATED the sand last year, so with Hilton Head fast approaching, I wanted to get him used to the sand. It took about 6 weeks to desensitize him (it wouldn’t have taken so long had we not had so much rain). But not we will completely immerse himself in the sand, cover his feet and allow the sand to stick to him. So after doing it in the sandbox, I rewarded him with a trip to “Miami” Beach in Middle River. It’s on the bay, and he had a blast! He put his feet in the water, and loved running around the beach. It’s nice to feel that we won’t have to battle the sand when we go on vacation in June, that he’ll enjoy it and have fun playing!

May also included a wonderful Mother’s Day. It was my 3rd Mother’s Day, and it sure was special, since Owen can actually say, Happy Mother’s Day, Mommy and give kisses and understand. It made it very special. We had a lovely brunch, and it was so great! I loved especially that we were home from brunch relatively early, and had plenty of time to relax. Something I so rarely get to do these days…

Memorial Day we went over to Pop’s house on the bay, and had a big BBQ with everyone. Owen didn’t have a nap that day (we’ve been letting him skip a nap once in a while (when it’s not a school night) so that we can do things during the afternoon, and he’s been doing remarkably well when he does skip.

All in all, a fantastic and wonderful month. We are very blessed as a family.