Vacation

I just got back from taking the kids home to PA for a two week vacation. Sean wasn't able to take the time off and I thought it would be a good time to do it since I am still off on maternity leave. I go back to work on August 17th. We had a great time. Olivia especially had a great time. I tried to do a lot of fun things for her since we don't seem to get out much at home. We took a trip to the Erie Zoo with family and Chuck E. Cheese and just spent a lot of time with grandparents and family. I took Olivia home when she was a month old so I wanted to do the same with Beau. It's hard for a lot of our family to come down to NC to visit so we try to make it back to PA at least twice a year. I feel bad because I didn't get to see the friends that I wanted to see. It always seems that there just isn't enough time no matter how long I'm there. It's also a lot of work to drive two young kids all over the place to see different people. It's so much easier to just meet at one place.

Beau will be 11 weeks old on Friday. He has been so much easier in the last two weeks. He isn't fussing as much and he will actually let me put him in his swing or bouncy seat without crying. He's also riding much better in the car. I bought him a regular car seat before the trip home to PA and he did great. He pretty much slept the whole way up and back. He's started smiling a lot recently and he laughs and coos which is so cute. I got a great picture of him smiling recently.

Olivia is doing great too. She was a little homesick while we were away and missed Sean terribly. She started developing a little bit of an attitude the last week we were there and for a few days since we've been home but she seems to be getting better. She's back into her normal routine and has been great the last two days.

We just bought a new camper before I left and hopefully we will be able to go camping this weekend. We wanted to last weekend but I didn't feel that great and the weather wasn't cooperating. We just wanted something to get us out of the house and I know the kids will love it. I have great memories of going camping when I was younger. My parents were both teachers so they had the summers off and we would go camping a lot. They still go.