Splish Splash {HH 2012}

I promise this is the final vacation post!

One of Sawyer's favorite activities during vacation was the neighborhood splash pad.  Nora also got in on the action.

And my favorite thing about the splash pad...snuggling cute babies in warm towels after their done playing in the water.

And to conclude our vacation posts I will recount a few memories I don't want to forget.

And don't know if Sawyer's development skyrocketed this week or if it was because we were with other children his age, but Sawyer's vocabulary took off.  He now can say just about anything and he usually talks in full sentences. It just seemed to click this week.

At one point in the trip we all had an illness...high fevers, sore throats, coughing, rashes, etc.  We didn't all have the same symptoms but we had a few rough nights.

Sawyer's friends loved to love on him and Nora.  Nora took the hugs and kisses well.  Sawyer not so much.  When one of them would kiss him he would get disgusted, wipe it off, and repeatedly say YUCK. They all thought it was hilarious...unfortunately now he does it when momma gives him kisses.

One day Sawyer and the other little boy were playing together while we were making supper.  They were playing really well together but we sent the eldest child to go check on them because they were on a different level of the house.  She reported back that they were playing with their pool floats.  Less than 2 minutes later we realized we did not hear any little boy sounds so we sent the eldest child down to check on them again.  She came back and said they weren't there!  We quickly searched the house and concluded that they were not in the house so we frantically ran to the doors...my friend found them down the street at the gated entrance dragging their pool floats.  Sawyer was even pushing the buttons to get out!  Her son said they were running away :) They had successfully put on their shoes, opened the locked (but not dead bolted) door, and carried their pool floats all the way to the entrance.  Praise the Lord there was a gate and they didn't make it to the busy street.  Scary moments for sure, but watching 2 two year olds drag their pool floats down the street on an adventure was pretty funny.