Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Our Summer Vacation

On our travels to Waynesville, we stopped in Hampton for the weekend and enjoyed some time with Heather, Clint and Lily. On Saturday we played in the yard in the pool and the dads enjoyed the slip and slide. After the pool they took a bath, got their PJs on and watched Space Buddies.

Cole enjoying Lily's playground
Cole found an alternative game for a golf club and solo cup
Lily and Cole playing in the pool
A series of photos of Brian on Bonzai Falls
The kids watching their daddy's going down the slip and slide
Cutie pie Lily
After a day in the sun, bath time!
Enjoying a movie and popcorn
Sunday we got up and headed to Stephen and Susan’s for a visit before heading on to Waynesville. It was great to see them. Stephen burned us a CD of the Black Eyed Peas song Cole enjoys so much so needless to say Brian and I are now tired of that song. Cole clearly isn’t; he continues to rub his belly (the sign for please) and say please to hear it over and over. We headed out from Stephen and Susan’s around 10:30 and headed the remainder of the drive to the mountains. Along the way we stopped at a BBQ joint for lunch and unfortunately Cole got sick as we pulled in. Carsick? So we got Cole, Brian and the car all cleaned up and grabbed a bite to eat. Finally we arrived at the house. Cole took a late afternoon nap while I grocery shopped. We had dinner and called it an early night.
Susan, Cole and Stephen
Watching Dora at Stephen's and getting a little sleepy!
We have arrived at the house! This was in the afternoon
This was at sunset!
Monday we got up, had breakfast and headed to Lake Junaluska. We found a little park area with the water overspill from the lake and a creek area that we played in for a bit before we took a walk around the lake and looked at all the ducks. After lunch and nap we went for a walk around the mountain. It is crucial to keep Cole outside and moving to get his energy out.
The dam at Lake Junaluska
Creekside
Cole throwing rocks into the creek
Checking out the falls
Finding the perfect rock to skip
Brian and Cole
Cole and I looking at the baby ducks
Pointing to one of many ducks
Here is a sequence of photos of Cole running towards me off the back deck
Finally we got some food in him, can you guess what he ate?
Cole’s new thing is to wake up at 5:00 screaming and we are still trying to figure out what his deal is. Monday morning he did eventually get himself back to sleep after screaming “Momma” “Dadda” (and he has even screamed out for his grandparents hoping for anyone to save him) over and over for about 30 minutes. This morning was the same routine but it did not appear he was going back to sleep so we went ahead and got him up. He colored for a bit and watched Dora as we waited for the Cable guy to fix the internet service. We are going to find a park my mom told us about and once again get some energy out of this little one.

Here he is this morning fading before nap time.
That is it for now. More pictures and blogs to come. Stay posted this week as I plan to update daily.

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