Caleb's Story: Nice Sabbath Walk, Water Wizz & Still More Beach Fun!

I don't really feel like writing a blog entry today, because we are getting ready to go to Washington D.C. for the weekend for a wedding. However, I don't want to write about 2 weeks next week, so I will just try to keep this short.

Last Sabbath we went on a beautiful walk in Chatham in the afternoon after having a nice lunch at my parents' house. Of course Caleb couldn't be there without going in the water so we did that for awhile before heading back.

It's probably mean, but this picture makes me laugh because he was so helpless and didn't know how to get himself up!

Gorgeous view!

Getting changed and he took off running!

After he got out of the water, he was freezing so we had to bundle him up to go back

On Sunday, I got up early and worked for a few hours because then around 9:30 we left to go to a water park called Water Wizz. Earlier in the summer they had a special buy two tickets, get two free. So, I had four tickets and we decided to take Josie and Rissa as a thank you for babysitting Caleb. It was a really nice day and we got there right when it opened so we had no trouble finding beach chairs for our stuff. Later on it got more crowded, but it wasn't too bad. We had a fun time, but Caleb had to wear a life jacket the whole time and he didn't enjoy that. He kept patting it and saying "All done". He managed to have fun anyway, though. He wasn't able to go down any of the regular waterslides, but there were some smaller slides in the kiddie areas that he enjoyed. We did split up a couple of times so we could go down some of the slides while the other person watched Caleb. I think I went down 2 slides with Rissa and then we went in the lazy river with Caleb. We were there about 4 1/2 hours and we were all tired after that.

I took this picture because Steve was sitting right under a sign that said not to sit!

I was hoping Caleb would take a short nap on the 30 minute drive home, but he never does well when someone is in the backseat with him, so he didn't fall asleep. By the time we got home, it was after 3:00, so I didn't want to put him down in his crib because I didn't want him to take a long nap, so we just kept him up without a nap and put him to bed at 6:30. He wasn't cranky and fell asleep immediately, so it worked out ok.

On Monday I worked because we are leaving for D.C. today and so I wouldn't be able to work. Dede babysat Caleb but the girls were back in school so she was by herself most of the day. They had fun as always!

Tuesday we met a bunch of friends at Joshua's Pond. At this time of year, everyone has gone back to school so it almost feels like we have a private beach. We were there a couple of hours and had a lot of fun!

Tuesday afternoon we did some shopping and picking up some things that I had bought off of people on Facebook.

Wednesday I worked again and my mom had Caleb. They had a fun and busy day. In the morning they went to Lake Wequaquet and in the afternoon they went to the farmer's market in Hyannis and Grammy bought Caleb an apple cider donut that he ate sitting next to a giant bear that he fell in love with.

When we picked Caleb up from my mom's house, we had the privilege of videoing her ice bucket challenge for ALS. Let me tell you, that was a riot! But good for her for doing it!

Yesterday we again went to Joshua's Pond with a few friends. I think our summer days are winding down so we need to get there as much as we can while the nice weather lasts! And I don't think we will make it there at all next week since we won't be back until Tuesday, I have to work Wednesday and Friday and we start our farm play group on Thursday.