Recently I was looking for a specific picture, and of course I couldn’t help myself. I had to go through lots and lots of them.
It’s a weakness; as soon as I see pictures of my little boys I am powerless to stop.
Guess who is visiting Greenville right now?
For as long as I can remember, I have been a fan of the Rocket Pop. Other popsicles are ok, but the only one I really like is the Rocket Pop. { For some reason I just realized that they are called Bomb Pops, but for me, they will always be Rocket Pops.}
I’ve started brainwashing the boys recently. I’ve even got them singing the song.
You didn’t know there was a song about Rocket Pops?
It goes to the tune of “Rocky Top”… The actual words after Rocket Pop are open to individual tastes.
Rocket Pop you’ll always be cold sweet cold to me!!! Good old Rocket Pop, Rocket Pop in my teeth!
Happy Summer!
It has been too long since I had a What the Heck? Wednesday! The boys have been home and I have no time to blog. What can I say? I hope you’ll both forgive me!
So I had to get this one in before we head to SC. Who came up with this name?
It looks like it could be in South Carolina, but it is, in fact, in The Bahamas. We will be in South Carolina very soon, though. It made me think of one of my all time favorite names of a town in South Carolina! 
Before you think something unsavory happens there, rest assured. It got the name because the cows there gave the sweetest milk in the area.
Yep we are heading to the place I will always consider home: South Carolina! Actually by the time you read this we may be in the air. {Don’t think about breaking into our house though because my NRA member, expert marksman husband is saying home}.
I am bringing the ipad, and I’m pretty sure I can’t blog from the ipad, so you’ll have to forgive my absence. If you just can’t do without us, please follow along on Instagram!
We have had the most boring week in the history of time. Allen was in Chicago. The boys were home on summer vacation.
I made big plans to have “Beach Week”. It was going to be great and we were going to a different beach every day. They were going to have a great time, we build fantastic memories and dinner would magically make itself and life would be easy!
Except it didn’t happen. On Sunday evening, Miller told me he could hear bubbles in his ears. Boo!
Monday afternoon he still had “bubbles” in his ears, so I called and made an appointment with the doctor.
He gave Miller a quick once over and said that Miller didn’t have an ear infection, but had distortion in his middle ear. All his congestion was just sitting in his head. No swimming for 5 days!
We got some prescription nasal spray and stayed home for the next 4 days. Don’t be jealous! Right now it is too hot to be outside unless you’re in the water. So if you take swimming out of the equation, it gets very boring, very fast.
We watched movies, played board games, played Beyblades, made a Lego Police station, did some arts and crafts and played on the ipad.
We may not have accomplished anything, but we were right where we needed to be. I try to remember that the boys need plenty of unscheduled time to learn how to be best friends. As much as they love playing with their friends and going and doing fun things they also need plenty of time, to just play, use their imaginations and figure out what they need to do to entertain themselves.
That’s even better than a week at the beach!
The boys have been really into Let’s Dance on the Wii. When their friends were over I took this video. They are going to kill me when they’re 16! However, it is too cute not to post!
The good news is that it looks like Chantal is taking her party elsewhere!
Thank goodness! We will likely get wind and rain, but we are used to that.
The bad news is that it also looks like it is going to be heading to SC as a Tropical Depression. Too bad the folks in SC don’t need any more rain right now.
We will be heading to SC next week and are looking forward to having fun with our friends and family there! We have a bad track record of bringing weather with us whenever we go to SC, so I am sure I will have to shoulder the blame for the record rainfall that will hit the area!
Last week the boys had the opportunity to go the day camp at Dolphin Encounters. Most of their friends were there for the full week, but I just wasn’t ready. They were ready, but I wasn’t! It’s just that Miller is just 4 and being on another island might be too much—for me. So one day was enough!
I decided to tag along, you know so I could be there if my baby almost 5 year old needed his mama. {You can go to Dolphin Encounters as an observer and pay a small fee.} Several other moms happened to be going that day as well, so it was nice to have some friends go too!
It was a good thing that friends went along too because as soon as we got off the boat, we were told to go to the left and the campers went to the right. Oh, OK! I just assumed that I would be able to kind of hang around too. Nope! The staff is there to provide a fun and safe environment for the kids and parents aren’t part of that. I get it, but what if the baby needs his mama?
We were on the other side of the island from the campers. So I had to sit on the beach and read a magazine. Cue the Annie song, “It’s a Hard Knock Life”!
After a while some of the other moms and I went on a little exploring walk. First we came across these guys.
Then we came across these guys.
Then we came across these guys…
And then we were asked to leave. Their job is to keep the kids safe and busy, but we didn’t think that meant safe from us. Apparently it did. So we had to go be tourists again!
The kids got to go to the Bounce Zone, which is a park of bounce houses! Awesome!!
Then they went to the Aqua Park, which is kind of like Wipeout. My boys were in heaven!!
After lunch it was time for their Dolphin Encounter. We were able to observe from the platform {which was very nice of them}. The kids got to pet, hug, dance, feed and feel the dolphins teeth. It was so cool!
The boys had a fantastic day, I had a fantastic day and I’m so happy that they we did it.
Next year I think that the boys are old enough to go by themselves. But I may need to go again, you know, just in case!!
