The Perfect Summer Day :o)

I don't typically get all sappy like this but, really, today was a PERFECT day! My kids let me sleep in until 8 (always a nice suprise) and then, after a quick breakfast, we headed out to Parrish Womble Park in Holly Springs.



We stayed there for about two hours. Caitlin has GOT to start walking though! She wants so badly to be on the big kid play structures. I did assist her in climbing up for a ride down the big slide a few times, but mostly she just played on the swings. Avery spent a lot of time on the swings also. They unfortunately don't have regular swings there so he looked like his dorky self on the baby swings.



Note the purple Disney princess necklace Avery has on? It's been a long time since he's decided he wanted to do girly stuff. It was so cute when he used to want his toenails to be painted all of the time. It kind of brought me back to those days. Honestly, by the way, I don't understand at all the parents who go CRAZY on their sons overthings like playing with dolls or nailpolish or whatever. Avery figured it out on his own that he was a boy and boys didn't typically wear nailpolish...and in the meantime he wore it for over a year. He carried a doll around the ENTIRE time I was pregnant. Leave your kids alone and let them be creative and explore.

Anyways, next we came home for lunch and then Caitlin went down for a nap and Avery went to spend time at one of our neighbors house. During my free time I was able to book as a room at the Ramada Mystic in Mystic, CT. I am SOOO beyond excited!!! Every year we spend our entire summer vacation time visiting my family in New Hampshire. This will be the first year that we actually take some time out for a REAL vacation. On the way home from NH we will be stopping in Mystic for a two night stay. We will spend day one at the Mystic Aquarium (which kicks the butt of all of the aquariums we have around us now) loving on some beluga whales, penguins, and (my favorite) sea lions <3.



Then we're spending the next day in Misquamicut, RI

and the day after that at Ocean Beach Park in New London, CT.




Anyways, a little later on Avery and I woke Caitlin up from her nap so we could go buy a sprinkler at Walmart. Avery *almost* went wearing one of those ridiculous, full-body bathing suits with the floatation device built in. And, of course, the princess necklace. I talked him out of that one. Not because he would have looked foolish...but because he would have complained about being uncomfortable the second we walked in. I really don't care what he wears and I'm all about his self-expression. Hell, he wore this to school one day last year...




We then enjoyed the sprinkler and a watergun fight with all of our neighbors. After which, Caitlin again decided to nap and Avery went to another neighbors house,...giving me the house all to myself to cook an amazingly yummy dinner, courtesy of this months issue of Taste of Home magazine.

We're about to get the kids into their beautifully tinted bathtub and then chill with a movie.

<3 I need more days like this in my life.