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We checked Banan out of school early Friday and the four of us headed to the Fire Rescue East Trade Show in Daytona – with a stop at IHOP along the way.

A lot of the vendors typically have candy, pens and other goodies to giveaway to attendees and this year was no exception.  Banan thought it was Halloween, lol.  Candy, toys, pens, pencils, cups, etc… plus brochures full of awesome fire trucks!

Calen loved getting out of the stroller and checking out things that interested him – which would be wheels, of course.  Fire trucks have very large wheels - all the better for Calen.  It cracks us up just how obsessed with wheels he is!

We headed out along the beach for the drive home.  The wind was whipping pretty good right on the beach, but it was otherwise a nice day, so we decided to stop for a few and let the boys run & play.

 
 

I’m ashamed to admit that this was Calen’s first beach vist.

He’s 14 months old – almost 15 months.  And we live in Florida.

Instead of beach days last summer, we did our water play at resorts while visiting Orlando. It was fun, even with him being so little then, but his first beach day was long overdue.

OK, so it wasn’t really a beach day, but still.

Banan ran ran kinda wild, being silly, and kept getting closer to the water.  In the end, his shoes and socks were soaked and his pants weren’t much drier.

Calen didn’t run around persay… he just made a beeline straight for the water every. single. time. he was put down on his own two feet. The water was simply too good to resist.

Overall, it was a fun family day!



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… there were all these other things that needed my attention this weekend.

Then I was barely home today.

I’ve thought of just “officially” taking the weekend off from blogging, but my blogging schedule kind of doesn’t exist at all.

In any capacity.

So, that wouldn’t really work.

I did get some much needed, away-from-the-computer, stuff done this weekend. A little bit happy about that.

OK, a lot of bit.

Our master bedroom now has a nice little sitting area and I reduced a lot of the clutter that had been slowly building in there.

I also completely reorganized the bathroom closet.

Oh, boy, has it been needing that.

Those were my two biggest projects this weekend, but I tackled some smaller stuff as well.

And of course, there was some family time thrown into the mix.

I had a dentist appointment today and got a referral to have the other 3 wisdom teeth pulled. Fun times ahead.

Patrick and I both had Dr appointments today. Basic check ups, blah, blah, but helped eat up a decent portion of our afternoon.

Back to the blogging thing -

I have a bunch of partially written posts that I am pretty excited about, but need to actually finish so I can publish them.

Story of my life.

I am working on a series of my 2012 New Years Goals and Resolutions – partially written posts, but I’m still nailing down exactly what I want 2012 to be for me.

Yes, I am well aware that I’m late to that game and by now, most people that made resolutions have already broken and/or just completely forgotten all about them.

I am trying to be a little more deliberate and make attainable goals and loose plans of getting there. So, if I’m a little late but actually succeed, isn’t that better than posting about them on Jan 1 and throwing in the hat by Feb 1?

Oh, and there’s this challenge (kinda blog related) that I was supposed to prepare to start over the weekend and actually start today, but… um…

Yeah.

I kinda didn’t.

Hopefully, I can play a little catch up tomorrow and still be a part of it.

And on a side note, because I’m all random that way, I am super excited about Banan’s reading.  Let’s just say he’s rocking it.

I’m proud to say that he gets that from his Mama.

{The temper thing I deny with every fiber of my being – couldn’t possibly get any of that from me.  I lay all of that on his Irish heritage.  Which is on his father’s side.  Just sayin’.}

Another quick side note – Calen moved up to a “big boy” car seat today and rode facing forward for the first time.  It simply amazed me how well he fit in it.  I had been in denial about how he had been outgrowing the infant seat.  He’s my last baby and it simply is not ok with me that he really isn’t a baby anymore.

But I gotta admit he looked pretty darn cute in his seat with his “I’m a big boy” grin.



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