A day at Camp Farwesta Reunion!

This year was a very fun year at Camp Farwesta reunion! We were excited to find out Courtney could go to class (it was really the 3 and 4 year olds, but several 2 1/2's were there). Being her super social self, she made lots of little friends! These are mostly in order for the day (although blogger wouldn't let me move them around).

After getting up and ready, eating breakfast and morning worship, I took Courtney to class each day. There were a lot of little ones, so I decided to stay and help.

Duck, duck, GOOSE!

Very out of order...this is Courtney's class singing at the children's program at the night service. She always sang and did the movements in class, but would only suck on her finger (stage fright) that night.

Music Class: Hokey Pokey!

Her class!

Crafts class: day one was bird houses!

Inside the classroom with all the kids! The first day the teacher told me Courtney was the only one who sat down the whole time. If you know Courtney at all, you know this is quite remarkable.

Lunch time! After naps each day - we swim!

Dinner! My whole family usually got to all eat together at dinner which was great (minus my brother and sister in law, we were all there)!

Each night we had a church service. Everyone helped keep Courts busy:)

Here is Courtney's bed in our cabin. She did a great job of sleeping peacefully here each night and nap (thank goodness)!!

It was such a fun week and as we were pulling out of camp, I cried for about 7 minutes. I was just thinking of all my memories and wonderful times at this campground and to know what a wonderful time Courtney had, made it an even more special week. I can't wait for many more years of camps and special times at Camp Farwesta!

Baseball!

Last weekend, my family attended a St. Joe Mustangs game. It was such a fun time for all of us a Courtney loved it too! Even though it was a minor league (or something like that) stadium, it was very accomodating! They had fully shaded seats, pretty cheap concessions, fireworks after the game (which were Courtney's first and she really liked them, although had to wear sunglasses since they were bright!!). They also had a playground, batting cages, a bounce house and 2 horses (mustangs) fenced in for kids to pet.

Eating and playing at my sister's house pre-game.

Sporting a Mustangs hat.
The game was very fun and they even won! The game started at 7:00 and we usually put Courtney to bed at 7:30...but she stayed up like a rock star until 10:30! I kept waiting for her to lose it, but with 10 other family members, horses, stairs, books, snacks and fireworks, she managed to stay up!!

Just Add Water!

We have been having a blast this summer at the pool, playing in sprinklers and going to our first sprayground. Water wings are Courtney's best friend because now she can go all over the pool!

This girl is not sinking!

We got to play at the pool with Ashley and a new pool friend, Emerson this week!


Kaitlynn also came over for a dip:)

We went to the McCoy Park sprayground this week and Courtney ran from one fountain to another for a solid hour. She giggled and grinned and squealed the whole time!
Seriously...she's airborne here. This girl did not stop running the whole time.

Happy Father's Day!

Courtney thinks Dan is the best daddy ever! And I do too! The day started with breakfast in couch...since Dan didn't sleep in quite long enough for us to rush it up to him:)Our first time on the train at the zoo! Courtney loved it.

We love you Dan!!

First Wake Trip!

Yeah! Lake season is here! We took our first trip to Dan's mom's lakehouse last weekend and, of course, Courtney had a blast. I know she will warm up to being in the coolish lake water, she mostly loves the golf cart:) On our way down, she keptsaying "Where are we going (clap,clap,clap) WAKE HOUSE" True Dora style.

Eating her first s'more. Mmmmm.

Meemaw Jody found a huge Dora book of stories at the library that had Courts captivated!

And finally, a rare picture of just Dan and I:)

update

Courtney can open doors now...

I love life from the perspective of a two year old

1. Tonight we were on a walk and Courtney looks up in the sky and spots the moon. She says, "Mommy, there's the moon. The moon is broken, mommy (it's a half moon). We need to fix the moon."

2. Courtney has lots of conversations with herself and her toys. She talks to them how she hears adults talk to her. She changes voices for herself and whatever she is talking to (I think it's genius). Yesterday as she was standing in her crib at bedtime, she was "hi" to things. "Hi kitty. Mommy say hi to the kitty" (Hi kitty). "Hi penguin. Mommy say hi to the penguin". (Hi penguin)"Hi me. I'm Courtney. Oh, you're Courtney. ( in her high "other person" voice) Hi Courtney. Mommy say hi to Courtney". Funny!

3. Last Sunday we went to World Conference and were in a row with my whole family. Courts did a great job of staying occupied and quiet and one of the ways was giving her snacks to different family members. She gave one to my dad. "Here you go papa" (He took it and ate it). She then asked rather loudly, "Are you gonna say thank you?" That is one our whole family will remember for awhile.

4. We are transitioning Courtney's room into a "big girl room" and one of the first things I added was a reading tent. It hangs from the ceiling and has a big pillow she can sit on to read in. The first time she sat in it, I asked her if she liked it and in a dramatic voice she replied, "Woooowww. This is so neat."

5. Over the past few weeks since the weather is much nicer (aka not freezing) we have been outside a lot and Courtney's babysitter is taking the kids outside there too. We got a report that Courts wasn't listening too well and would run towards the street or around the house. This is annoying/frustrating with ONE kid, so we knew it was hard with 4 others at the babysitter. So, we started really reinforcing it at home and talking to her about it as much as we could. I guess we did too good of a job, because when she runs away at home or has to go in time out and get "talked to" about it, we say, "You have to listen to mommy and daddy". To which she replies, "No, listen to Tina". So, I guess we will start telling her to listen to mommy, daddy, AND Tina. We'll see how that goes:)