backyard campout

 friday night johnny decided to take jack camping in our backyard. jack has been talking about camping a lot lately so johnny and i have been discussing johnny camping out in the backyard and last weekend was a good one because we really didn't have any plans. 

jack was super exciteed when johnny told him that he was going to "go camping". jack said something like "oh boy! we can roast marshmallows and tell stories!" 

 as you can see...they didn't quite "rough" it because we blew up the air mattress. we don't have a level grassy area in our backyard so we had to put it on our concrete pad. 

 jack did not like the roasted marshmallow because it was too hot

 johnny did though! (and so did i)

 about to go to sleep

jack did great! they got in the tent a little after 8:00 and they told stories, read books, and played with flashlights. jack came in to go potty at 9:15 and then went back out. johnny said that whenever he heard a noise he would shine his flashlight outside to see what it was :)

they fell asleep around 9:45 and slept until 6:15. then they talked for a few minutes and fell back asleep until 8:30! 

i love johnny for bringing him camping. he is the best daddy ever!!

end of PDO

 jack had his last day of preschool (i called it 3 year old preschool at the beginning of the year because he was 3, but he was really in the 2 year old PDO class because of when his birthday falls in the year)

jack has grown into such a brave boy this year. he had weeks and weeks where he cried getting out of the car and they basically had to pull him out of it, but for the past several months he has loved going to school and loves telling me about what he learned that day and what friends he played with. i am so proud of him for making friends and doing so well at school. i can't wait to see what next year has in store for him :)

 jack was really excited about his last day of preschool because of the party :) he was also really excited about giving his teachers their present that we got them.

after school we went out for ice cream with jack's friend kathryn to celebrate the year being over

next year jack will move up to the child development center :) my big boy!!!

carolyn's wedding

 carolyn, my best friend's little sister got married last weekend. it was a beautiful wedding and reception. 

fun date night with johnny!!

pcb beach trip

 day 1:

we stopped at country's bbq on the way down to the beach for my mother's day lunch

 jack feeling the ocean breeze

 he loved all the shells

 happy mother's day to me!!

 jack feeling the ocean for the first time in years

 charlie feeling the ocean for the first time...he didn't like it

 both boys LOVED the pool

day 2:

 this wagon was wonderful! it was $10 at walmart and he could bring it down to the beach all by himself

(and he is wearing flip flops for the first time)

 love footprints on the beach

 charlie took both morning naps on the beach

 jack loved to jump over the waves

 i thought jack was going to love the splash pad area, but he really just liked the pool and beach the most

 we went to barefoot beach club to eat dinner. it was so nice because there was a playground for jack to play on while we waited for dinner to come...and jack got to get a key lime pina colada

 charlie did not like the sand all that much

 jack crawled down this for a while :)

 johnny and jack went crabbin

 they caught one and brought it back up to the room for me to see :)

day 3:

 walking charlie to sleep

 my little beach bum

 the lazy river...it was COLD!

 charlie was NOT a fan of the splash pad

 jack was obsessed with this fountain

 captain anderson's

 where jack slept

charlie slept in the room with us. both boys slept great! (well charlie slept the same as he does at home). jack was really funny the first night though. his bed was in the hallway...i guess he felt like he had freedom to get out of bed...he never gets out of his bed at home. he ran into the den area and saw us and ran as fast as he could back to his bed. then i walked to the kitchen to get something to drink and caught him making faces in the mirror down the hall...i cracked up! 

but other than that he did great and slept all night all 3 nights