Tate, Aubyn & Levi
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Village West Vacation 2012
Lake Poinsett
Trey age 5 in his life jacket!
All's Aubyn does is snack on the beach!
Children's Meseum
Vacation Lake Poinsett 2012
Last week were on vacation at Lake Poinsett, SD. It is about 3 hours away. We stayed at a friend's lake cabin with Steve and Tonia, Nate and Lisa, Evan and Kim. We had 11 children from the ages of 1 to 10. It was SO MUCH FUN! Evan and Kim took their speed boat and Steve took his dad's fishing boat. We went from a Monday to a Friday. The whole week was hot and sunny!
Monday morning Toby went fishing and he caught Walleye and lots of them! I think he may have caught 5 fish in about 2 hours. He was on cloud nine. The rest of the days we did much of the same thing..boat, swim, nap, fish and soak up a lot of sun. Just how vacation is meant to be :). All the big girls learned how to ski, all the big kids knee boarded, Evan learned how to wake board! Kim and I went on a crazy tube ride that made us feel like a kid for around 5 minutes and around 30 for the next 5 day, but it was SO worth it! All the mom's skied, the dad's wake boarded and skied, the men fished with the occasional kid along and we all ate a lot! It was a great week.
On Wednesday we went to the Children's Brookings Museum. It basically was a great big play yard for the kids. They had everything that real life has but a condensed version for the kids. Like: a grocery store, a farm, an ice cream parlor, a news anchor place, huge blocks to build with, a mechanic shop with a car you could work on, a water thing, a music room, an art room, dinosaur park, and just about anything you could think of. It was great seeing our children run around trying to play with EVERYTHING. We were there 4 hours and the kids had a blast.
Trey tubed with his friends which was a big surprise. He is getting more daring everyday. My little boy is growing up....sniffle sniffle. At first he wasn't so sure about it, but if Carter is going to do it then it must be okay. The first time he went granny speed but by the last day he was going "no hands" like the rest of them :). Another thing he started to do is jump of the dock with his life jacket. He doesn't even need to plug his nose. He runs and jumps and goes down and resurfaces with a smile on his face. He also swam and swam and swam on vacation. He was in the water more than he was out of the water! Trey also learned how to play a kindle with apps on them. He played games like angrybirds, a train game, and anything that the older kids showed him. He now wants and i-pad or kindle for his birthday. You can about imagine how proud his dad was when he told him that :)! Trey went to bed great every night. He played so hard everyday that he was just exhausted by bedtime. He had a great vacation just like the rest of us!
Monday morning Toby went fishing and he caught Walleye and lots of them! I think he may have caught 5 fish in about 2 hours. He was on cloud nine. The rest of the days we did much of the same thing..boat, swim, nap, fish and soak up a lot of sun. Just how vacation is meant to be :). All the big girls learned how to ski, all the big kids knee boarded, Evan learned how to wake board! Kim and I went on a crazy tube ride that made us feel like a kid for around 5 minutes and around 30 for the next 5 day, but it was SO worth it! All the mom's skied, the dad's wake boarded and skied, the men fished with the occasional kid along and we all ate a lot! It was a great week.
On Wednesday we went to the Children's Brookings Museum. It basically was a great big play yard for the kids. They had everything that real life has but a condensed version for the kids. Like: a grocery store, a farm, an ice cream parlor, a news anchor place, huge blocks to build with, a mechanic shop with a car you could work on, a water thing, a music room, an art room, dinosaur park, and just about anything you could think of. It was great seeing our children run around trying to play with EVERYTHING. We were there 4 hours and the kids had a blast.
Trey tubed with his friends which was a big surprise. He is getting more daring everyday. My little boy is growing up....sniffle sniffle. At first he wasn't so sure about it, but if Carter is going to do it then it must be okay. The first time he went granny speed but by the last day he was going "no hands" like the rest of them :). Another thing he started to do is jump of the dock with his life jacket. He doesn't even need to plug his nose. He runs and jumps and goes down and resurfaces with a smile on his face. He also swam and swam and swam on vacation. He was in the water more than he was out of the water! Trey also learned how to play a kindle with apps on them. He played games like angrybirds, a train game, and anything that the older kids showed him. He now wants and i-pad or kindle for his birthday. You can about imagine how proud his dad was when he told him that :)! Trey went to bed great every night. He played so hard everyday that he was just exhausted by bedtime. He had a great vacation just like the rest of us!
"Where's Me?" and "Kickle Me!"
Aubyn is 27 months now and growing more into a little lady everyday. If she had any say about this she would say she is a "pincess" (princess). On vacation at village west I found a t-shirt with a princess on it and it had a real tutu that came out of the t-shirt. I brought it in the condo and held it up and said, "Aubyn, look I got you a new t-shirt." Aubyn looked up in amazement and said, "pincess" all starry eyed. It was SO CUTE! For the next 3 days she had to wear her "pincess" shirt!
Aubyn is also getting such a fun personality. The other day at grandpa Goerge's house we were talking about wet willy's. Grandpa asked what a wet willy was and I told Aubyn to go show grandpa what it was. She walked up to grandpa and licked her finger long and wet and stuck it right in his ear. She laughed and said "wet wildy." Grandpa laughed and laughed. He then licked his finger and came after Aubyn and she covered both her ears screaming out of pure joy and started running away from Grandpa. Oh, how we all laughed.
Another game she loves to play is hide under a blanket or in my curtains or where ever and say, "Where's Me?" and then she laughs. It's so fun to hear them have such joy in a simple game. She also loves to be tickled. "Kickle me mama" is something I hear multiple times a day. Just recently we taught her our passwords for me to stop tickling her. They are "I love you mama, and Uncle." So the second after I start tickling her she saying "I love you mama." I can't complain...I will take I love you no matter what form it's in!:).
Aubyn also just recently got her ears pierced. I had been thinking about it for a while but didn't know if I wanted to do it at such a young age. Well, Saturday we were going to the eye doctor for Trey and I asked Toby if he cared if I got her ears pierced today. He said go ahead. So after the Doctor we stopped by Aunt Josie's shop and checked if there were enough girls there to do it. She had no idea what was coming. We marked her ears they were both put in at the same time. She cried a bit and then was happy to receive her sucker. She moped a few times that day, but she did Great. Now she really looks like a Big Girl :(.
As Aubyn grows I know she is going to be my little helper. A lot of times when it's time to go somewhere I will say, "Okay kids, let's go." Aubyn will stop and look at me and say, "you got my bapack (backpack) mom?" This is her diaper bag and I cannot believe she knows that we need it everywhere we go :). Also, one time we were going to go to the park and Toby was still sitting in the chair. Aubyn goes and gets his shoes and brings them to him and says, "daddy you need your shoes on." This little girl knows how things role :).
This week Aubyn has been kind of funny adding a "y" on to everything. When it's time to go swimming she says, "mom, I need me tubby." When she is thirsty she says, "Mom, I need a drinky." When she wants to go out side she needs her "shoey" on. I don't know where she picked this up but I sure hope it don't last long. LOL.
Aubyn still continue to love her dolls: Lydia, Brooklyn and Dorda(Dora). She carries her puse (purse) around on one arm and her doll in her other. Her and Trey sometimes hid out in her room/closet playing dolls, putting them to sleep, and being mom and dad. It is so fun to hide around the corner and watch their little minds in action.
Another thing that is so funny about Aubyn is sometimes she just acts like a little adult. She will be doing something and you will tell her to pick it up when she is done and she looks right at you and says, "k." And then she does it too. If she finds my shoes in her room she will bring them to me. I will tell her to go put them in my room and she will go into my closet and put them on my shoe rack as nice as can be. If I would have asked Trey to do this he would have chucked them in my room. It's so funny the differences between girls and boys. But I really do appreciate them all.
We have also been doing some potty training at our house. On vacation to Village West a few weeks ago Aubyn decided she wanted to go on the potty. She told Grandma Myrna that she had to go potty and ONLY Grandma Myrna could take her. So off they went to the BR and she went! Since then she wakes up dry every morning and goes a TON on her little potty. We wear princess pull-ups and panties most of the day and we can stay dry some days and have a lot of accidents other days. At her 2 year old check up I read a paper that said every time a child tells you that she is dirty, don't scorn them and say you should go on the potty, but thank them for telling you that they were dirty. I started doing that and 2 weeks later she wanted to go on the potty. Wow...how amazing, well, or LUCKY :). We by far are not leaving the house without a pull-up or diaper on yet, but she is doing GREAT!
I reflect now on my children playing with their motorcycles on the floor. Laughing with each other and occasionally yelling at each other and Thank God for their little personalities everyday. They have such great joy in the smallest things, well, also great pitty in small things too, but they are such joys. As they interact with each other I can see the great love they have for each other. Yesterday I caught them both snuggling in the chair together. I wish I would have gotten a picture b/c it was SO CUTE. They are just little bodies that know SO MUCH.
Aubyn is also getting such a fun personality. The other day at grandpa Goerge's house we were talking about wet willy's. Grandpa asked what a wet willy was and I told Aubyn to go show grandpa what it was. She walked up to grandpa and licked her finger long and wet and stuck it right in his ear. She laughed and said "wet wildy." Grandpa laughed and laughed. He then licked his finger and came after Aubyn and she covered both her ears screaming out of pure joy and started running away from Grandpa. Oh, how we all laughed.
Another game she loves to play is hide under a blanket or in my curtains or where ever and say, "Where's Me?" and then she laughs. It's so fun to hear them have such joy in a simple game. She also loves to be tickled. "Kickle me mama" is something I hear multiple times a day. Just recently we taught her our passwords for me to stop tickling her. They are "I love you mama, and Uncle." So the second after I start tickling her she saying "I love you mama." I can't complain...I will take I love you no matter what form it's in!:).
Aubyn also just recently got her ears pierced. I had been thinking about it for a while but didn't know if I wanted to do it at such a young age. Well, Saturday we were going to the eye doctor for Trey and I asked Toby if he cared if I got her ears pierced today. He said go ahead. So after the Doctor we stopped by Aunt Josie's shop and checked if there were enough girls there to do it. She had no idea what was coming. We marked her ears they were both put in at the same time. She cried a bit and then was happy to receive her sucker. She moped a few times that day, but she did Great. Now she really looks like a Big Girl :(.
As Aubyn grows I know she is going to be my little helper. A lot of times when it's time to go somewhere I will say, "Okay kids, let's go." Aubyn will stop and look at me and say, "you got my bapack (backpack) mom?" This is her diaper bag and I cannot believe she knows that we need it everywhere we go :). Also, one time we were going to go to the park and Toby was still sitting in the chair. Aubyn goes and gets his shoes and brings them to him and says, "daddy you need your shoes on." This little girl knows how things role :).
This week Aubyn has been kind of funny adding a "y" on to everything. When it's time to go swimming she says, "mom, I need me tubby." When she is thirsty she says, "Mom, I need a drinky." When she wants to go out side she needs her "shoey" on. I don't know where she picked this up but I sure hope it don't last long. LOL.
Aubyn still continue to love her dolls: Lydia, Brooklyn and Dorda(Dora). She carries her puse (purse) around on one arm and her doll in her other. Her and Trey sometimes hid out in her room/closet playing dolls, putting them to sleep, and being mom and dad. It is so fun to hide around the corner and watch their little minds in action.
Another thing that is so funny about Aubyn is sometimes she just acts like a little adult. She will be doing something and you will tell her to pick it up when she is done and she looks right at you and says, "k." And then she does it too. If she finds my shoes in her room she will bring them to me. I will tell her to go put them in my room and she will go into my closet and put them on my shoe rack as nice as can be. If I would have asked Trey to do this he would have chucked them in my room. It's so funny the differences between girls and boys. But I really do appreciate them all.
We have also been doing some potty training at our house. On vacation to Village West a few weeks ago Aubyn decided she wanted to go on the potty. She told Grandma Myrna that she had to go potty and ONLY Grandma Myrna could take her. So off they went to the BR and she went! Since then she wakes up dry every morning and goes a TON on her little potty. We wear princess pull-ups and panties most of the day and we can stay dry some days and have a lot of accidents other days. At her 2 year old check up I read a paper that said every time a child tells you that she is dirty, don't scorn them and say you should go on the potty, but thank them for telling you that they were dirty. I started doing that and 2 weeks later she wanted to go on the potty. Wow...how amazing, well, or LUCKY :). We by far are not leaving the house without a pull-up or diaper on yet, but she is doing GREAT!
I reflect now on my children playing with their motorcycles on the floor. Laughing with each other and occasionally yelling at each other and Thank God for their little personalities everyday. They have such great joy in the smallest things, well, also great pitty in small things too, but they are such joys. As they interact with each other I can see the great love they have for each other. Yesterday I caught them both snuggling in the chair together. I wish I would have gotten a picture b/c it was SO CUTE. They are just little bodies that know SO MUCH.
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