Rock Climbing and a Hole in One!

For something to do while in Florida we took The Boy to play miniature golf. He had never done this before so I thought he would be excited to learn how. He was excited for about the first 5 holes then all he wanted to do was climb the faux waterfalls. My mom ended up playing the holes by herself because it was so expensive she didn't want to waste her money. We did manage to entertain ourselves though with our really lousy play. She ended up losing a ball in the water and the one hole I tried to play I ended up hitting it way too hard and had to go retrieve it a couple of holes down the path. We didn't keep score, of course but Jayke did end up hitting a hole in one right before quitting to scale the waterfall. I think he enjoyed it for a few minutes though and that's what matters...that and getting pictures for the blog!
Here he is attempting to hit the ball and missing. He had a hard time remembering which way to hold his club...guess he needs some lessons from the golf coach in the family, P'pa.

....and here is the waterfall he tried to climb. He will climb anything. Luckily I dragged him off of it before he got too high and fell to his doom.

More of the Beach Bum

I love to see the pictures of my mom in the water with Jayke because she hates going in there and getting wet so it amuses me to see her go so willingly for him. The water was really cold too.

Visiting the Cousins

While we were in Florida we drove up to my sister's house to visit them. My Dad and MJ(mom) came down with all the Christmas presents for her family since they weren't able to make it home to Indiana this year for Christmas. Jaykeb LOVES playing with Sydney as you can see above. They were playing dress up in Sydney's room. The other little boy is Christian...Drue's girlfriend's little boy. Jayke had the best time playing with all these kids and my sister's dogs. He has never met a dog he didn't like. We were also treated to some entertainment while we were there...
Drue and Sydney performing for us to some VERY loud music.
It is a little strange to see all those Christmas presents in the background especially since 2 days before it was Valentine's day. Santa even had more presents for Jayke so he wouldn't feel left out.

Here is one of the gifts Gavin and Sydney got for their Christmas on Valentine's...The Giga Ball! It took forever to get the thing blown up then we headed down the road to the ditch where there was a hill. The kids loved that thing! Even Jayke took a turn going down the hill in it. The dogs had to have their fun too so everyone took turns running them back and forth across the field until poor little wags and Jaykeb were about to drop.



When everyone else was ready to go Jaykeb, of course, wasn't so P'pa stayed with him to play a little longer.

The Chauffeur

Grammy had a chauffeur while shopping at Target. Maybe I will try this next time we go. Cruise the aisles in style. It was funny because we could hear them beeping through the store even though we couldn't see them then they would come cruising around the corner. Grammy was going to sit in the car and wait for us until I told her they had those carts and she had to go in with us and that Jayke would ride with her. It worked out well, they rode around while my mom and I shopped...got her out of the car and in to be able to look around and kept Jayke totally content to wait for us to finish our browsing. They only crashed into things a couple of times and narrowly missed other customers only occasionally...no law suits were filed so all in all it was a success!

Beach Boy

This was one of our days at the beach. It was a little windy so we put the umbrella up to block the wind from Grammy a little. It didn't slow Jayke down though. He was busy with his truck and the sand. Pretty soon we were walking along the water and he was soaking wet. Soon after that I was soaking wet. He wasn't afraid of the water at all which leads me to believe his fits in the bath about washing his hair are not really about the water so much.
Shortly after getting soaked we took off the wet clothes and a second later he dove into the sand to make "sand angels". He was covered with sand and running all over the beach chasing sea gulls. Pretty soon he told us he needed a new diaper because his had "pepper" in it.
Here he is on the first day at the beach testing the water. It was pretty cold but didn't seem to bother him.
Jayke and Oma looking for treasures on the beach.
Making sandcastles.
On the boardwalk in Venice.