May Madness...second half

With Tyler busy preparing for boards this month, (what? you thought he was finished with such things? me too!), the kids and I drove up to Camp Crandall for a long weekend of swimming in the pool. But oh yeah, that was at the start of the cold snap, so we only got to do it the first day we arrived. So without a pool to swim out the crazies, they got to run them out inside instead!

Not as if that could ever get old, but we later went to Barnes and Noble to check out the latest in board books and Super Hero adventures.

And later, Ben was thrilled to take a ride on Grandpa's "tractor".

And Grandma was just thrilled to have her grandbabies home.

(love this picture of you, Mom)

workin' it on the runway

looking so pretty after church

I even got a girls' night out,

to celebrate my longtime friend Dahlia's impending stork visit!

Mom and Dad tag-teamed the kids,

and Ben showed them his "moves" in his new pj's.

look at those muscles!

The rest of the month consisted of a lot of playtime outside,

and inside where Katie Beth is safer from the steps, stones and choking hazards of the back deck.

brushing her hair!

And all that play definitely means nightly baths, in tandem, if I can convince Ben to share the tub.

In other water adventures, we went to a nearby splash park one Sunday, and the kids had a blast!

This little waterbug loved every second and showed no fear of any jets or fountains. And she only cried for a minute after smacking her face on the concrete, which resulted in this....

kinda hard to see the bumps and scrapes under the macaroni and peas, but she looked like quite the bruiser for a few days!

And sadly, our aquarium membership expired this month, so we squeezed in as many trips as possible.

Ben has become very callous to the fact that he can be inches from sharks, jellyfish and sting rays on a regular basis, so we're going to take a break this year and hope the wonderment will return later.

Singing (loudly) with the scuba diver he picked as his special treat from the gift shop on our last visit.