Vacation Day 1

Tampa Bay Rays stadium Port Charlotte, FL

Banyan Tree on Boca Grande

with the Gulf of Mexico behind us

We got here yesterday around 6:00, 14 hour drive, the girls did great! We went to Punta Gorda for dinner and Payton tried Gator bites, she loved them!
Today we went to Boca Grande in the morning, they were having Island Fest so we were able to see a walking parade, decorated bikes and people throwing candy. We saw Banyan Trees, they drop roots down from the branches and leaves and root themselves in the ground, hard to explain but pretty cool.
We put our feet in the Gulf of Mexico, Payton picked up a coconut from the ground under the palm tree and we saw a lizard running around. Dave said if you pick them up by their tail it will fall off and they'll run away.
Saw our first spring training game the Rays vs. Marlins, so cool! You are so close to the field and Reagan and I even talked to a Marlins pitcher.
Tung is on a mission to eat grouper every day we're in Florida, so far he's 2 for 2.
For dinner we went to Venice, FL and ate at Sharkey's a restaurant right on the ocean with a pier that goes way far out. It was nice to sit and listen to the ocean while you ate.
We're having a lot of fun and tomorrow we're off to Tampa to see Julie, Kent and the girls.
Pictures to come!

new words

Reagan is trying to say a lot more words lately. Tonight she picks up her plate and says "pate" that's an improvement, everything food goes on has been a bowl :)
She had a cheese quesadilla tonight, she opened up every single triangle and ate only the cheese out. We hid chicken inside of Payton's and she ate the whole thing chicken and all. It's a fight to get that girl to eat meat, but hiding it like that proves she can eat it!

Strawberry monsters

This afternoon I came home and had gotten the girls a snack of strawberries, I put Reagan in her high chair and gave her a bowl of cut up strawberries. I gave Payton some whole ones in a bowl, then went outside for a few minutes to talk to the guys who had come to fix our broken gutter.

I came back inside to Reagan banging her bowl on the table saying "More!". So I asked her do you want more strawberries? She shook her head Yes. So I said OK, give me your bowl, I'll get you some. She shakes her head No and says "PayPay!" Payton had pushed the stool up to the sink and was washing more strawberries for her and Reagan. She was taking care of her sister. How cute!

Preschool Visit

We took Payton to the preschool this morning for a visit, to see what we think and get all the paperwork to sign up for the fall. Well as we predicted, she did not want to leave. She got to listen to a story in circle time and made herself right at home. She was upset when it was time to go. So we'll need to mark on her calendar when she gets to go all day every day to give her a reference point.

In the car going to Gail's after the visit she explained to me what she wants to do when she grows up.
After Miss Gail's school, she'll go to preschool. After that Kindergarten, then for her first job she wants to be a dentist, for 2 weeks. In the two weeks that she spends being a dentist, she said I could visit her and she'll clean my teeth. Maybe Reagan could be a dentist too and they could be dentists together.

Next she wants to be a doctor just for 3 weeks. Then she wants to be a grocery store payer, aka cashier. Maybe at Target, not the grocery store. Target has clothes. She would buy some to be the checker. I told her Target checkers have to wear red and pants, no pink and no skirts. She said that's OK.

For her final job she wants to be a Mommy. Reagan is going to be a Mommy before she is because she has to do all her other jobs first.

What a conversation we had :)

Raygay!

If you say Reagan's name, she says Raygay! And if you say Payton's name she says Paypay. So cute!