April Vacation Week....

was last week.  The kids were with Shawn on Monday and Tuesday and they had all sorts of fun.  He brought them to the bike path and they all biked for 3 miles and then had a picnic at the train station.  They had a good time watching the trains go by and enjoyed some time at a local playground.  The next day Shawn brought all the kids and Luke to the skate park in Westerly where despite hearing some teenagers swear (Myles could not seem to get over this) they all had a blast.  Molly was so proud of herself for riding her scooter at the skate park and Huddy participated as well.  When  I came home at 4:30pm on Tuesday Shawn had four kids (ours and Luke) sitting quietly at the island and decorating Easter Eggs!  I was impressed. 

Wednesday the boys spent the day with Grandma at the URI pool.  Molly was invited to go out to lunch and to the movies with Elliott and her mom Kelly.  She had such a good time and was just delighted that she was able to pick out ANYTHING she wanted from ANY restaurant in the Food Court at the mall.  She thought that was just fabulous.  Kelly let them both ride on the carousel and they watched a puppet show in the mall and ended the day with "Rio" the movie in 3D. Molly was all smiles at the day's end. 

Thursday through Saturday Grandma and I took the three kids on a two night adventure in Plymouth, Massachusetts.  We stayed at the John Carver Inn which has an indoor water park that looks like the Mayflower and its very own game room (where Molly played ping pong one night with Grandma at 9pm) and a fabulous restaurant called the Hearth and Kettle.  In Plymouth we visited a playground, went out to several yummy meals at restaurants, went to the beach to chase seagulls and collect sea glass, visited the Mayflower II and Plymouth Rock, walked a bit along a river walk where Myles found a wing from a seagull (that he thought was so cool) and did a lot of swimming.  It was a fun two day escape with lots of activities.

Molly took this picture of us!

3 kiddos and the Mayflower II

Molly, Mommy and Huddy in the pool!

Myles coming out of slide

Grandma with Myles and Molly having fun!

This was our first trip without the pack n play as Huddy finally got just too long for it.  We brought along his new LL Bean super padded sleeping bag and he was delighted to sleep in between the two double beds in the hotel room.  The second morning there I woke up to, "mom help me there is a railing on me".  I looked down to the floor towards where he should be sleeping and no Huddy.  I was not too alarmed as I knew he was in the room and calling for me, but where was he?  "Mom help I am stuck", I heard again.  By this time I was on the floor and looking under the bed. There I saw two little feet sticking out and realized that he had rolled under the bed sometime in the night and spent the night on the dirty dusty rug and not on the sleeping bag!  Thankfully when I pulled him out from underneath he was not traumatized in the slightest and he did not appear to look like a dust bunny.   I thank goodness I did not wake up prior to him calling for me or I would have had a panic attack not knowing he was safe under the bed!!!