Fun-day Monday

I'm a couple of days late. I actually was on the ball for Monday's post, but because of the number of pictures that I was trying to upload to the site from my phone, the program kept freezing without finishing. Finally, last night it all went through but I was too tired to write.

 

Monday is my day off for a while, until this furlough is over. Some days I schedule appointments but I'm trying to make at least every other Monday a fun one.

 

We had been planning this day (part of it) since last week. K's class went on a field trip to play putt-putt. He asked me every day when we would be able to go back. I kept saying Monday. It also happened that we had to be out of the house because some maintenance needed to be done, and had some other things that would occupy our time throughout the day as well.

 

I was not expecting it to feel as busy as it did. By the end of the day we were both pretty wiped out.

 

What we saw before we headed out the door. They were using some sort of heavy machinery in my bedroom and had it closed off.

 

 

 

Lost Treasure Golf and Raceway was next on the agenda. It was HOT out there...and we even got there right when it opened at 10. Needless to say, we did one round of putt putt and that was it.

(We saw this flower along the course and I just thought it was pretty.)



Specifically making a 'mean' race car driver face.



Cooled off a little bit with some wind in our hair. He is not quite tall enough to reach the pedals...but I think he thought he was steering. :)



He had fun when it was just the two of us in the water. During the second round that we did of bumper boats, all of the boats had people in them and we got wet. It was nice to cool off some more but he was not a fan of getting shot with the water. He liked doing the shooting though of course!



Since this place was on the sound side we went over and checked out the Bogue Sound. We're so used to the other side of the island that is the ocean that it was nice to see how different (and calm) the sound side was. We had a little lesson on islands while we were there. He didn't seem to understand that we were on one big island.



Then, because it was not getting any cooler outside, we made a trip to the arcade. I'll be honest, he has no clue whether there is $ in a machine or not. However, this time I gave him some $ for tokens and he played a few games. He did pretty well!





Once we left the putt putt place, we made a quick stop at the aquarium. He always likes to go there so we stop in whenever we can.



About a half hour after we got there, a bird show was going on so we learned about the different birds native to NC.



And his favorite part is the turtle exhibit at the end where the kids can dress up as doctors to diagnose and rehabilitate sea turtles.  I didn't get a pic of him working on his turtle, but I will say, we've done this drill about 20x now and we've gotten a variety of turtle problems...infections...boat strikes...etc. This time was a new one. "gut impaction"...or infaction as K kept calling it. It was pretty interesting. In these pictures he is doing some measuring.





The end of the aquarium is always a high point for him. Dairy Queen sits right at the exit.



And there is a fossil dig at the end as well. He found some rocks dinosaur bones and brought those home.





And at the very end, when I remember some change (thank you to DQ I had some), he makes a couple of wishes. The only one he would tell me was "I wish I was a scuba diver".



Then it was time to get my car serviced so he chilled out with some games while we waited. He liked sitting at the window where he could watch them lift my car up and take my tires off.



Lastly, it was the beginning of Vacation Bible School. This was his first one ever so I was a little unsure how it would go. He is LOVING it. He seemed to be nervous at first and didn't want me to leave, but once he realized there was someone in his group that he knew, plus they started out with music we've been playing in the car for the last month (they gave us a CD ahead of time), he was all in. They are doing a Greek theme so everyone (kids and adults) are dressed with a headband for the color of their group (their oikos) and a...whatever you call that thing he's wearing. So far he likes the singing, and they've been able to 'shop' with coins at the marketplace. He also said they learned about Paul. VBS to be continued...





I feel like I just wrote a book. I told ya it was a busy day! :)

Sunday Selfies

K loves the reverse camera on my phone. These are all pics he took yesterday.

Pool dude

Today we spent a little time at the pool with Dommie and Poppo. K was excited to try out the new 'racing' swim suit that Poppo found. It makes him look so tall and skinny! He also rediscovered his old sunglasses that have been hiding out in my beach/pool bag. 

Sunday...a few days late

Sunday was K's day. I had planned for him to call the shots (for the most part) for the day so I was interested to see what he came up with.

 

Around 10:30 he said it looked sunny outside so we headed to the pool. I think we were there for almost 4 hours. Most of that time was to ourselves...which was strange being that it was beautiful outside, but nice nonetheless. There was one family that came for about 30 mins or so. We knew them because the little boy and K had been in the same class for a while, and I knew the mom outside of that. It was nice for him to have someone to play with.

After swimming, we went to see Despicable Me 2 (again). To me it was funnier the 2nd time. Haha! K is not big on popcorn so we don't usually get much at the theater, but next door to it is an ice cream shop that has his favorite ice cream. I brought that up as an option...but he said, "You know where we haven't been in a REALLLY long time? Brrrberry!" So off we went for some build-your-own frozen yogurt.




He was not happy that his gummy bears turned to 'rocks' when they got cold.



I have no idea what he was doing here...maybe trying to reach the yogurt with his tongue?

The fish

 

Having a neighborhood pool has really been nice! K has always loved the water but this year he seems to (finally) be putting it all together. When I took these pictures last week he was staying in the shallow part unless I was in the water with him. As of today when we were there, he was swimming in the deep end without help. He's come a long way already and he'll only get even better from here!

 

In these pictures he was excited to try out his new flippers. :)

 

 

It'll take it out of you though! Tired guy!

"Toothpaste Grin" Tuesday

We started the day out a little sleepy. This was the first morning in a while that I had to wake K up early. He got a little spoiled while his school was closed last week. FINALLY he was on about an 8:30 wake up schedule (I can't seem to get him to do that on a normal weekend...ever) so today when 6am came, I think it was a shock to his system. It took f.o.r.e.v.e.r. to get him out of the bed. He was so sweet though.

 

 

I picked him up a little early because today was another check of his ears. We were in 3 different rooms, but I only got pictures in 2. He was fascinated by the 'differences' in the rooms...the position of things, the different equipment, etc. He seemed to be entertaining the nurses with his many observations.

 

See the fake smile? My mom has always called those 'toothpaste grins'. I think he's got it down pat....but regardless, his smile is still the cutest to me. :)

 

We were trying to figure out dinner because my original plan wasn't going to work (I forgot to put it in the crock pot!). The you-can't-eat-breakfast-at-dinner-time kid decided he really wanted an egg for dinner...the one thing I didn't have and he didn't want to go back to the store...so off to Kountry Kitchen for dinner we went...where you can get breakfast anytime.  He was mostly impressed by the pancake. I'm sure he'll be just as impressed tomorrow when he has the rest of it for a morning time breakfast. I don't think he realized that I brought home what he didn't eat...which was most of it because that thing was huge!



Once we got home, he decided he wanted to try my shower without worrying about getting shampoo in his eyes. Works for me!

Play by play

Today was furlough day #1. I may have not gotten paid for the day off, but we made it a fun one!

We spent the day with some friends at Water Boggan in Emerald Isle. WOW, that place has changed a ton since the last time I was there in the 80s-90s! I vaguely remember going with my brother and with my girl scout troop...way back when.  Back then there were three slides. Those three are still there, but they have added a kiddie area with smaller slides and some climb on toys with a wading pool, and three 'bigger' slides (steep drop style). K has been excited to go since we started talking about it last week. He and his friend liked the kiddie section and they even went down the original slides several times. The other mom and I both tried out the 'bigger' slides. I tried to get K to go but he wasn't quite ready (and I'm not sure he was tall enough based on their height requirement...although there were some shorter kids that went). Maybe next time he'll give it a try.

Here is a play by play of one of the slides. I love that my camera captured it by the second for a little bit.