Hilton Head Island

Vacation!!! We headed to Hilton Head Island to spend a week with Aunt Barb, her friend Wilma, Uncle Mike, Aunt Dawn, Kayla and Chelsea. We had an awesome time! We had a heated pool at our house, so we spent a fair amount of time in the water between the pool and the ocean. We also got to visit several parks and several ice cream shoppes (Lucas determined "Blue's Clues" was his favorite - blue raspberry with marshmallows, and Megan liked pink cotton candy best). We also made a trip to Savannah to dine at Ms. Wilkes' Dining Room ... after an hour or so, we finally got in and enjoyed massive amounts of food ... very tasty!



The kids loved the water. They spent more time in the pool than the adults since the pool heater quit working, but the adults had fun with them for a few days. Everyone had a great time at the beach, we just had to watch out for the many jellyfish. We found shells and sand dollars, dug holes, buried parts of people, made sand castles, chased seagulls, splashed in the water, played frisbee and more.

Our Little Cuties

Water, Water, Snow

In preparation for our trip to the beach, more swimming lessons.

Then over to the Kluesner house for some outside water in its frozen white form. :) We all had a blast sledding down the hill, across the walkway, and sometimes through (under?) the evergreen trees.

"Campout"

Lucas and Megan attempted a sleepover in Lucas' room last night.  Attempted, because after two hours of playing around, they were sent to their own beds, but they had fun anyway.  I'm not sure they had enough stuffed animals, though.

Happy 1st Birthday Nathaniel & Ben

Today we got to celebrate Nathaniel & Ben's birthdays at a double birthday bonanza! Twice the birthdays, twice the cake and twice the birthday fun! Their smash cakes were pretty cool!

100th Day of Kindergarten!

Lucas and his class celebrated 100 days of Kindergarten today! Everyone made their shirts with 100 100s on them to wear for the day, and took in 100 of something edible and 100 of something non-edible ... for snack and to decorate their sign, respectively.

When the parents showed up for the celebration, the kids calmly kept listening to Ms. Lisa reading a book. Impressive, considering that as soon as Ms. Lisa gave the okay, they all charged the parents and threw snowballs (cotton balls) at us. It was probably not easy for them to sit there hiding their cotton balls. :)

Play Date

We had a bunch of Megan's friends and their siblings over today for some lunch and some fun. I'm not sure if the play dates are more for the moms or the kids, but everyone has a good time.

Scrub, Scrub, Scrub

Lucas and Megan have interesting fascinations. Had to yell at them twice last night to stop cleaning the bathroom (with toilet paper) and get back to bed. Tonight, I let them fulfill their dreams ... a full hour, 3/4 a roll of toilet paper and some paper towels later, and they still aren't satisfied with how clean it is. Both were mad that they had to stop to go to bed because they weren't done.