week :: thirty and a missing week: thirty-one

**UPDATE #1: Okay, to be fair I started this post last week, but again life took hold.**

**UPDATE #2:  Annie Bananie is struggling with teething so I may not have any week thirty-one pictures.**

 

During week thirty we took a day trip to Apache Lake.  They was our second boat trip of the year and our third lake trip.  Although there are some stresses involved when taking these trips like:

 

-Making sure you pack the sunscreen.

-Make sure you bring the bag that has the sunscreen in it.

-Buying food and packing the ice chest for lunch on the water.

-Not forgetting to bring the butter knife for your PB & J sandwiches.

-Buy yourself some Dr. Pepper because it's a treat and you deserve a treat.

-Feeling your thighs rub as you walk out of the soda isle so you turn around and put the soda back. (Damn)

-Once the boat is in the water idle just off shore and not run into other boats while daddy parks the Beast.

-Daddy's back so now you need to pick him up without running him over and docking the boat on shore.

-Days over and now it's time to put the boat on the trailer without crashing into the trailer, other boaters, the back of the Beast, the front of Daddy all-the-while trusting your kids not to fall overboard because you can't possibly really be watching them while trying to (successfully) put the boat on the trailer.

 

With all of the stress aside...once on the water, (if your boat ran well), the lake is the best way to de-stress.  We love, LOVE, being on the water.  What is even better is that the kids love being at the lake as well. 

 

 

 

week :: thirty

 

Annie-Bananie decided to do this, this week:

 

 She has decided that the ottoman is her best friend.  She loves to use that as her aid in standing up.  Why a moving piece of furniture is beyond me but she loves it.  She is now up and off her belly for crawling.  The Daddy-O keeps asking me when will we put up the kid gates but I don't have any plans to yet.  I think our house is fairly kid proof and if not then we will find out soon.  Plus, it's easier to shut doors to keep her out of any one room then it is for two boys to climb up and over gates.