Splash Park & the Weekend

On Saturday, we met up with Lincoln & his mom at the splash park.  At first, Connor was really scared to get in as expected.  He changed his mind after a trip to the potty and then decide he was really excited to play with his "new best friend Lincoln."

After that, I could hardly even keep track of him because he was running so fast through the water!

They got tired pretty quickly, so we dried off and headed to lunch.

We ate lunch and then the boys both said they were tired and laid down on the big chairs.  You know your toddler is tired when they admit themselves that they're tired and want to lay down!

And this is 15 minutes into the car ride home...

After nap and a bad rain storm, we headed off to a 40th birthday party!  While Connor & his friends got muddy and wet in the grass, Caylee, Daddy & I hung out on the side.  I think Caylee was jealous of our drinks, so she tried out Daddy's water bottle for the first time.

As more people showed up at the party and the DJ started playing, Caylee and I did a little dancing! #tinydancer

On Sunday, we woke up and Connor helped build his new Ninja Turtle table & chairs.

Dumb photo, but doesn't Caylee look adorable in her tutu?

Lake Geneva: Day 2

After talking up swimming all evening, Connor was ready to try again the next day.  He was a little nervous at first, but he warmed up quickly.  We started at the fountain where he was most comfortable the day before.

Then he asked to go on the swing...

Played basketball...

And then he went on the slide all by himself!

Finally, a little swimmer!

After long nap, we drove to downtown Lake Geneva.  Unfortunately, it was snowing pretty hard, so we didn't get to walk around very much.  We stopped at a couple souvenir shops and Connor picked out an Elmo t-shirt and school bus toy.  For dinner, we went to Sprecher's which is one of our Wisconsin favorites. 

The hotel gave us some free arcade cards, so we headed back and showed Connor how to play some of the games.

With all 66 tickets, we picked out a yellow ball and a green star slinky!

That night, we hung out in the room to watch some Animal Planet.  Connor was so sweet when he gave the baby a kiss and wanted to snuggle with her!

Lake Geneva: Day 1

We went on our summer vacation a little early this year since we'll be pretty busy over the summer.  On Thursday night after work, we drove up to Lake Geneva to stay at Timber Ridge Resort.  We stayed there once before Connor was born (totally weird without kids) and I thought it would be perfect this time.  We got an early start Friday morning at the pool, however, Connor was not as excited as we hoped.

He was terrified of the pool!  I think the large amount of people there might have scared him even more, but it was probably also just a little too overwhelming for him.

He cried and screamed for almost an hour, but it was so loud in the pool area that we just kept trying to calm him down and convince him to try the pool.

Finally, after we sat on the side for about 20 minutes, he calmed down enough to see how all the other kids were having fun.

A little splashing convinced him to try it himself and he finally warmed up!

The splashing only lasted a short time because he got pretty tired and want to eat lunch.

After a long nap (for both of us), we took him on his first trolley ride!  The trolley drove around the property so we rode it to the other resort up the hill.

We had a little snack and walked around the resort.  I begged for a photo of us since we hardly have any with my bump in them.

A quick photo while we waited for the trolley to come take us back to our hotel!

We ate a yummy BBQ dinner at our hotel and Connor watched the swimmers in the pool while we ate.  We talked up swimming all afternoon and night, so he'd be excited to try again the next day.