The Lawson Family...: July 2012

I’m going to try my best to get this written while the kids play, but just in the time it has taken to get the pictures off my camera I’ve had to get Charlotte off the stairs twice, put up the gate that she knocked down, get her out from playing in the toilet, and rescue toys from the kitchen garbage can that she put in there. This girl is a MESS I tell you…a TOTAL mess, but that’s a whole other post!!!

So the kids and I were in MS for a visit. I must say that the drives over and back weren’t that bad. They were hard on me just because of little things like you can’t get out and just stretch your legs because you have two kids to get out too, any time both kids would fall asleep it never failed I always had to use the restroom, but no way was I stopping and waking them up. So just little things like that. But the kids did great!

We have turned Charlotte forward facing which makes her a much happier baby! She was able to watch hours of Elmo (her favorite thing in the entire world). For Bo I made him an activity book with color pages, letter tracing page, and blank paper to color on. I put it all in a binder because it’s just easier to turn pages in a binder than in one of those big coloring books. Filled a pencil bags with stickers and crayons. I kid you not this kept him busy for hours!!!!! I never dreamed it would be such a hit! A few days before our trip I went to the dollar store and got about 10 different toys that I then wrapped in tissue paper (this took all of 5 minutes) then along the trip if he was being good he’d get a prize to unwrap…seriously this was my lifesaver because there were a few times I had to use that to get him to do stuff like get back in the car after lunch at Chick fil A, etc… I see us using this a lot as the kids get older!!!

I must say that the weather did not exactly cooperate for our trip. It rained and rained and rained the entire time we were in MS. It finally got to the point that if it wasn’t lightening or thundering we sent Bo outside to play in the rain. These kids can only stay inside for so long!!! He had a blast. I ended up buying him a kids umbrella which he was ecstatic about. My poor mom was even out there with them in the rain. They loved it!!!! We would pull the baby pool out and let them play in it while they rained, something fun and different for them! If it wasn’t raining it was horribly humid. You have never experienced humidity until you’ve experienced a MS summer…Lord knows I don’t miss that at ALL!!!!!

The other highlight from our trip was the chance to go back through my childhood house. I lived in this house until I was 9 years old, but I still consider it the house I grew up in. A good friend of ours, again from childhood is now a realtor and she offered to take us through it since it’s now on the market. They made so many changes, however there were many things that were familiar especially to my dad…a lot of the repairs he made while we lived there were still there. Shelves he built, an old shed he kept things in out back,etc… It was really neat, but my favorite part was being able to have my picture taken with my kids on the front porch, I can still see a picture of my mom with my brother and I on the same porch!! I never would have thought that would have ever been possible, I am so thankful for my friend Mary.

We also go to spend some time with Barney, Emily, and Vivie. I hadn’t seen Vivie since Christmas…she is such a little girl now!!! The kids had a blast playing together. She and Bo especially hit it off. Made me wish we were closer and the kids could actually grow up together, maybe one day!

We had a great time. Bo said over and over and over again that he didn’t want to leave and that he wanted to stay at Pop and Bebe’s forever! He didn’t even want to come home to see daddy and let me tell you that is huge!!!! He loves them so much!!! Here are some pictures! oh and if you’re wondering…right now one child is playing video games and the other is watching an Elmo dvd…only way I can get things done these days!