May Happenings

One proud Aunt!

My two beautiful nieces!

Sam asleep on his new bed

Our first meal as a family of three at The Back Porch in Destin

Playing in the sand

Dipping his cute little feet into the ocean for the first time

Having lots of fun

Loving the "Oooh-sin " (and holding one of his cars in his hand!)

Busy building castles and burying mom and dad's feet

Totally exhausted!

We have so much to talk about in this post. First of all, let me say Congratulations to my niece Shannon (affectionally known as Prissy by me). My mom nicknamed her Prissy when she was just a baby and I have always known her as my little Prissy. Well, my little Prissy graduated from High School last Friday evening. We are so proud of her. It is a major milestone in everyone's life to finish High School and my little Prissy has grown into a beautiful, intelligent woman with a WONDERFUL sense of humor.

Now for an update on our little man. He is now sleeping in his own room on his big boy bed which happens to be a car! Tonight is his 3rd night sleeping by himself and he has done great so far. He wakes up happy... and makes a quick trot into our room... telling us "UP". Of course he did this at 4:30am Saturday morning!!!

Another milestone to mention... we took Sam to the beach for the first time.... and he LOVES it. He had so much fun... playing in the sand... running up to the waves in the ocean... and swimming in the pool. We discovered he loves to jump in... so you have to hold on to him every minute... and keep a life vest on him at ALL times! His new word is "ocean"... he is so cute when he pronouces it "Oooh-sin". He cried when he had to say goodbye to the ocean.

We are going back in June for a reunion with our China travel group. We are looking forward to seeing everyone and to let the kids play together now that they are 6 months older than when we got them. By the way, when you look at the pictures you may see a "boo-boo" on Sam's nose. He fell from the slide at daycare last week. He is okay but he loves to get sympathy!