Fl trip part 2

On Tuesday we all went to the condo to spend the day at the beach. (For those of you that don't know my parents moved to FL in October and have a house inland that we all stayed at. For now, they still have the condo too.) The water was pretty cold for Maddox and she did not enjoy that. It'll be fun to go this summer when she's toddling around and the water is warm.

Here she is hanging out with her Aunt Suzy, and Aunt Jennifer checking out some shells. One night Jeremy and I stayed at the house while everyone else went to the condo. I got some pictures of Maddox's newest strange activity, showing her muscles. She only does it while in a high chair. She's silly. After her favorite dinner of spaghetti we went miniature golfing. Jeremy's not paying attention because he's busy adding up the score and double checking it. He can't believe he lost to me by 8 strokes! hehe

Another day the 3 of us went to Calusa Nature Center for a couple of hours. We hiked around looking for wildlife. It's dry season down there so we didn't see much, but it was still nice to hike around and be outdoors. They did have snakes, a skunk, a bobcat, opposums, eagles, vultures and some others in cages to look at. They also had a touch tank and Jeremy actually touched an ocotopus! This is the guy who's afraid of any wild living creature and most domesticated creatures too!

Maddox made it for most of the hike but towards 11:30 she was way beyond her nap time and gave up.Another day we all went to the park to play except Jeremy and Stacy. They sat in the hot tub smoking cigars, drinking beer, and talking sports and politics the whole time we were gone.Maddox had a lot of time to practice walking with her cousin Matthew.On New Year's Eve we had dinner and opened our crackers with the hats in them. Maddox wore hers throughout dinner. She had to go to bed after that and miss all the fun. We had a different activity every hour (crafts, games, swimming, charades) until midnight. I wish I could post the video of all 11 of us (the two littlest were in bed) crammed into the hot tub singing Row Row Row Your Boat in a round but it's on the real video camera which is makes it to difficult to post. The water level in the hot tub was halved when we all got out.We went back to the beach a couple of days later. I wore Maddox in the snugli early in the morning and we took a long walk up to the furthest point of the island to my favorite spot for shelling and wading. She got so tired that she about fell asleep again. Then we played in the sand some more. Her Daddy tried to bury her in the sand.After a long day on the beach Maddox will even cuddle with Matthew. Too cute!Whew! So that was our trip! The drive home was uneventful. We went to Tampa to have dinner with Suzy's family who was flying out from there in the morning so that took 2 hours off our long drive. We left Tampa at about 8:30pm and got home at 6:30am. Maddox slept like a rock the whole way, only nursing once. When we got here Jeremy went straight to bed and I had to stay up and play with the chick who got to sleep all night! She and I have taken it easy and napped a lot. Tomorrow life gets back to normal!