Two weeks ago, Colby took her first flight up to Minnesota to visit Aunt Kim, Aunt Kendall, and cousin Jacob! She did great on the flight. We had books to read and flash cards to sort through, but I think she was glad to finally get to MN where she could stretch her legs.
She loved playing with Jacob, and every morning that would be her first word..."Jacob?"...it was time to hit the ground running and play with all of his toys and her favorite book, "Dinosaur Roar!"...which we just bought yesterday.
Kim and I had grand plans of doing Jacob's 3yo pix and Colby's 18 mos pix. Jacob was a much better sport than Colby.
Below are MANY of my favorite pictures from our trip! Thanks for checking in!
Hair lotion and a diaper....I'm all set to go this morning!
We went to the water park near Kim's house. It was Colby's first time. She LOVED it! Here she is trying to follow Jacob up the big-kids-slide.
Jacob going down!
Splash!...not that Colby minded. She loved it...would hop back up to go again immediately.
I can do it myself, Aunt Kim!!!
See! I'm a pro at going down the slide on my own!
Weeeeeeee!
She loved it!....so much so that she wasn't patient with waiting her turn. There was one little girl who was scared of going down the slide on her own; so, Colby helped her out by pushing her. I had to apologize profusely for my 18 mos-old bully.
Jacob surveying the situation.
I went down the adult slides....and paid for it....I had a sore neck for a week afterwards!...but it was still fun!
Aunt Kendall chillin' out.
Jacob was everywhere!
One of the days in MN we went to the neighboring town of Gully for the 100th anniversary of their town celebration and parade. There's 100 people in Gully, and the parade was still going on 90 minutes later! These people are proud!!! We left to get something to eat at the Oof-Da-Taco stand!
What's a Oof-Da-Taco? Think of an elephant ear that isn't sweet with all the taco meat and fillings on top!
What does Oof-Da mean? It's a Norwegian term that roughly translates to "Oh C&^p"....or "D^%m"...you get it.
I actually found and bought my sister Kim a mug that says "what part of Oof-Da do you not understand?!!!"
Aunt Kendall riding between two tired kiddos on the way home from the water park.
Tired Kiddo #1.
Tired Kiddo #2.
I can't seem to escape the Gnomes.
This is the old tractor behind Kim's treeline that we attemped to do pix with. This is the only picture that has my child somewhat smiling in it...and, of course, there's a grass coming up in front of her face. Geesh.
The rest of the pix are of her trying to run away. here's Jacob trying to corral (sic) her.
I WON'T stand by that tractor...I WON'T do it!!!
Look at me...on the big kid swing all by myself. She did pretty good too...she only fell off once towards the end of probably 15 minutes or so.
After going down the slide on her own at the water park, she wasn't about to accept help on the swingset slide.
Not sure what Jacob got into here!
Climbing up the stairs again to the slide!
And, we tried AGAIN to get pictures with the tractor....with the same results!
Rotten to the core!!!!
Playing a song for Kim and I. I think we ended that performance pretty shortly.
