Is it Myrtle Mother? Take 2 and 3.

We went back to Myrtle Beach. Twice. In the last two weeks. We only went to the beach once for a few minutes, but this time, our trip onto the sand went much better than our last trip.

Weekend #1 in Myrtle Beach was for what the timeshare people call a “getaway weekend”. Timeshare Translation: come update your owner profile (60 minutes) and get tickets to something or whatever and two nights for $29 in one of the timeshare rooms. Aleksza Translation: sign us up.

Saturday we did our “owner update”. After our last sales experience at the Sheraton in Myrtle Beach we were prepared for them. Our last “sales guy” was even there. The woman we had this time (Beth) was much nicer and far easier to talk to then Donkey Man was the last time. We didn’t buy anything… of course, why would we when what they were selling was 7k for 20,000 points and we spent 2k for our 61,000 points on eBay. (Did you miss the last post on getting things at a discount price? Seriously, by this point you have to know we’re cheap. Stephen created a monster in me.)

Saturday afternoon we took Katherine to a place that had some of the huge inflatable jumping things – indoors. She L.O.V.E.D. it. We thought we spend maybe an hour there for our $3. (Parents jump free.) We were there for well over 2.5 hours. Girl wore. me. out. They had a very cool toddler jumping thing that she had tons of fun on. Her first slide experience on her own and within minutes she was climbing up the ladder by herself and going down not feet first… oh, no that wouldn’t be exciting enough for our little daredevil… No, she needs HEAD first. Better… much better. *clutching my chest*

Sunday was more playing, this time on the playground and then a little shopping and the drive home. Good weekend. Loved spending time with my two favorite people.

This past weekend we again made the trip to Myrtle Beach to check out some real estate… We’ll see how it goes. We may be beach-goers!! =) (woohoo!!!!) I don’t know what possessed my husband to be interested in the beach, but I’m not arguing!!

After we had lunch on Saturday we took Katherine down to the beach for her to check things out. Not only did she like the beach (she went running for the water… fortunately mommy’s recent hobby of running paid off!) but she REALLY liked collecting seashells. She fell asleep clutching them in her hands. I had to carefully pry them out while trying not to wake her. This was still easier than trying to get them out of her hands while she was awake.

Next up… Turkey Day!! This year we’ll be spending the day with Aunt Nikki & Aunt Sofi. Yay! A quiet Thanksgiving at home… I’ve nominated the day as PJ Turkey Day… We’ll see if the family goes along with it! =)

JDRF Walk & Myrtle Beach photos:

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Short Video of Katherine on the playground:

Make a Smilebox greeting

Princess Franken-Nugget

Last year we spent Halloween evening laughing when kids realized that the little bouncy seat on the porch held a living baby. Many missed that little fact when sticking their hands in the candy bowl. This year, Katherine was not to go unnoticed. No ma’am. In fact, I believe there were a couple of instances where she shopped in other kids bags of candy. She thought it more of a candy exchange than giving candy.

We did try trick or treating. I think the rule is going to be she can go to as many houses as she can walk to. This way we don’t have 10 tons of candy for a 5 year old that wants to eat it all in one night. At least that’s what I’m telling myself. At about 17 months old she made it to two houses. Superb!!! After the second house she proceeded to plop her little behind on the sidewalk and take all of her candy out of her pumpkin and rub it on the sidewalk. Why? No idea. And she didn’t seem inclined to answer my question of “oh Frankie, why are you rubbing your candy on the sidewalk?” She just looked up and laughed.

This year Stephen used his 90% off 2008 clearance purchased fog machine. Oh yeah – his cheapness is H.O.T.!! Well, I appreciate it anyway! =) While Stephen and I thought it was very cool… Franken-Nugget did not. At all. It was a GREAT way to keep her close by. You turn it on for 5 seconds and she’d be right back on my lap. Mean you say? Whatever.

For year #2 we had multiple compliments on our festive decorations. (YAY!) One guy (creepily) took several pictures of one of the signs we had out front. We really thought he was casing the inside of our house he spent so much time taking the picture.

There were also multiple folks that remembered Katherine last year and were quite fond of our little Frankie. She is pretty cute – and no, I don’t think I’m biased. Okay, maybe just a leeeetle bit!

Some pictures from Frankie’s evening…

Make a Smilebox scrapbook