Beach Bum Batman

Happy Halloween!  You should have seen all the cool Jackolanterns!

Our final day was at Castaway Cay, Disney's private island.  We were scheduled to arrive in the port at 730 am.  I awoke around 615 am and the boat was vibrating and shaking and making all sorts of odd noises.  This continued all through our breakfast.  It was quite odd.
We headed down to get off the boat at 9 am and when we arrived to the bottom floor of the ship, an announcement came over the PA system that our boat had just finally docked.  (almost 2 hours late!).  Apparently, the storm had caused damage that made it difficult for the captain to dock our ship  But he did it!
While we waited for the ship to get ready for every one to come off, we met a few more characters.

Donald in his beach attire

Lilo and Stitch

You may notice that Logan has crocs on with his socks.  The child refuses to wear flip flops, so the best we could get (so we didn't have to take his tennis shoes) was crocs with socks.  Logan kept calling them his "Goofy shoes".  I think he called them this because they were big and black like Goofy wears sometimes too!
We were finally able to get off the boat and headed a short walk to the beach.  We had originally scheduled a glass bottom boat tour, but it was also cancelled due to the storm.  We weren't too sad.  There was plenty to do!
Let me tell you, Castaway Cay is gorgeous!  White sand, clear blue ocean with tons of lounge chairs and umbrellas!

Paradise!

The water was freezing, but Logan insisted we (meaning Logan and I) go in the water.  I am only posting pictures of myself in a bathing suit to prove I got in the freezing water!  There were tons of crazy people swimming, but Logan and I only lasted for a few minutes.

Hello!

This was right after Logan got knocked over by a wave.  He loved it!

The rest of the day, we explored the island, ate BBQ at the on island buffet and enjoyed playing in the sand.

Part of Castaway Cay's Mount Rushmore!

Logan wanted to pose in front of all of them!

This picture makes me look like a pro!  When Logan sees big rocks, he thinks they are all for photo ops and he automatically poses on them and says "Cheese"  I caught an awesome picture here!

Striking a pose!

Minnie and Mickey joined us on the island for a little dancing.  Logan didn't want to go away, but he wasn't so sure about the dancing...

Our cutie!

Yep-that is our 3 year old chatting up the bar tender....

Logan loved the sand!  He had it all over him.

Probably because he kept doing this...

Burying Mommy's flip flops

A picture of our boat

We spent several hours on land, them headed back to the boat to get ready for the Halloween bash!

Logan in his Batman costume

Yep-I crocheted the hat!

The Caped Crusader

Mickey and Minnie during the Halloween Bash

My men in black

 Dinner was excellent once again.  After dinner, we watched the final show, "Believe".  It was really good.  Logan did sleep through this one.  He was exhausted from all the fun of the day!

We did catch one final picture with Mickey!

We loved our Disney cruise and will definitely be going again soon!

Later Dudes!

Fourth of July Fun!

My birthday is the 5th of July, so growing up I always thought the fireworks were for my birthday.  I was probably 10 before I realized that they really weren't for just my birthday.  Oh well!  I LOVE fireworks and was very disappointed this year when the drought here meant no fireworks for most of the cities around here. 
Jeff and I were going to a Cardinals game on the 4th, so I was hoping we could catch the Fair St. Louis fireworks, but Logan was not going to be able to see any fireworks since my parent's town had cancelled the fireworks.
We drove to my parents house on Tuesday with plans to go to the game from there on Wednesday.  We had a great evening with John, Laura, Lillie, and Jacklyn!  Lillie and Logan played so well together and I snuggled with little Jacklyn as much as I could!

Lillie enjoying the bounce house

I'm pretty sure they were up to no good here!

We also celebrated my birthday with a little cake a few days early!  Logan was very excited. 

He started singing "Happy Birthday" to me before everyone else was ready...

Then blew out the candles when he was done singing!  It was so funny!!

We re lit the candles and I got a shot this time at blowing the candles out too!

That night, Logan got sick and threw up all over the place!  Poor little guy.  He (and myself) hardly got any sleep that night!  In the morning, Logan was not his normal self, but he took a little nap and a little Tylenol.  After a second helping of blueberries, Logan announced his "belly hurt no more, toe hurt no more*.  All better.  I play!!" and threw his hands over his head signalling victory over illness!  It was the cutest thing!  He really was better too.  He has been fine ever since.  I have no idea what made him sick on Tuesday night (maybe too much cake...)
*Logan, for some reason, always tells us his big toe hurts when his belly is hurting.  It's a bit odd, but always consistent.
Jeff and I decided Logan was doing well enough that we would go to the game, but come back to my parents house instead of our original plans to go back to our house after the game.  This meant a Metrolink ride from the west side. 
The game was great.  The Cards won.  We were able to catch most of the Fair St. Louis fireworks.  Logan was doing fine per my Mom's reports.  All was well in the world. 
Until we got to the Metrolink station.  Holy line of all lines!  I knew it would be busy, but this was insane! It was so freakin' hot (it was still 94 degrees at 10 pm!) and people were passing out in the line!  We finally got on the packed train, but had to hop off at another station to catch the other line and had to wait for-ev-er to get back onto the train!  It took a nearly 2 hours to get from the ball park to our car (it normally takes about 35 minutes!)
We did finally make it back to my parent's house and crawled into bed.  My mom got up with Logan in the morning, so Jeff and I were able to sleep in for once! 
Hooray!
Once again, these photos are courtesy of my Dad.  He takes such good photos, I tend to leave my camera at home if I know he will be around.

Water! Water!

We celebrated Easter a few days late in our household since Jeff and I both worked Easter.  Logan had a lot of fun with Easter festivities with Grandma and Pappy and cousin's Lillie and Jacklyn over Easter weekend.  I was in shock the amount of candy that little boy hauled home!
We decided to hide the eggs while Logan was at school on Monday.  He was a very excited little boy when he got home!

Logan's Easter Basket full of goodies!

Look what the Easter Bunny brought!  A Water Table!

"What do we have here?"

Hunting Easter Eggs

Once Logan discovered the water table, the Easter Eggs were forgotten!

Where's Logan?  This is what happens after an awesome Easter weekend!

Now, I'm hoping for some more nice weather headed our way so that Logan can play with that water table some more!

A Hunting We Will Go

Easter Egg hunts are one thing that I have never experienced with Logan.  He's been on Easter Egg hunts, just not with me.  I always work weekends and that is usually when Easter Egg hunts are held.  This year, we lucked out!  A wonderful Mom in our play group opened her house to about forty kiddos for an Easter Egg hunt on Good Friday!  It was so much fun for Logan and for me (and my Mom, she got to go too!).  Logan is apparently a master Easter Egg hunter and met his egg quota quickly, but he was happy because after the Easter Egg hunt, it was snack time!!

Logan finds his first egg!

He was quick to swipe those eggs up!

"I see another one back there!"

Man on the move

Logan was not afraid to hunt through snake territory (at least that is what I call grass by trees because I'm crazy scared of snakes, my poor heart pitter patters to just walk across my yard) to find another egg

Disaster avoided.  He got the egg and no snakes!  (I'm really just kidding about the snakes.  I'm sure there weren't any snakes-at least I hope... Haha!)

Logan eyeing Addy's eggs...

My donut Easter Nests!  They were supposed to be Easter baskets, but I could not find red licorice lace anywhere!!  Here's how to make these awesome snacks!

Logan thoroughly enjoyed snack time and will most likely have a blue mouth and hands for at least the next 24 hours or so.

Just loved this photo.  He's such a cutie!

Thanks so much to the Mom who planned this Easter Egg hunt!  You are awesome and we had a wonderful time!
Logan spent Easter weekend with Grandma and Pappy since Jeff and I both work (boo!) and he has two more Easter Egg hunts under his belt this year.  He had a blast spending time with Lillie and Baby Jacklyn!

Egg Dying Fun!

I LOVE Easter Egg dying, but hate the smell of vinegar, so when I saw on Pinterest this post on using Kool-Aid to dye Easter Eggs, I was sold!  Grandma was on hand, so we had three sets of hands to help Logan out.  I don't really think he needed any help though...

Kool-Aid, water, and mugs was all that was needed!  Just mix each package of Kool-Aid with 2/3 cup water.

Logan quickly figured out the trick to carefully dropping the eggs into the mugs

He couldn't wait to take eggs out so he could put more eggs in the mugs.

"More Eggs!"

Good thing we used Kool-Aid, that Paas vinegar mixture would have tasted NASTY!

"It works!"

Our attempt at a family photo...

Egg Dying begins to get a little messy...

The finished product.  The brown eggs are grape Kool-Aid, I couldn't get a good color even with mixing flavors with the grape.  The blue, oranges, and reds turned out pretty awesome!

Yes, Logan's hand is still somewhat dyed a day later...

All in all, success!  I will most definitely continue using Kool-Aid to dye my eggs.  It smelled so nice and the eggs turned out pretty too! 
Logan got up this morning and tried to "dye" his plastic Easter Eggs in his mug of milk...he even found a makeshift spoon in his toy box.  Sorry, no picture, I was trying to avert disaster...
Happy Good Friday Everyone!! Enjoy your Easter weekend!