Anniversarily awesome.

 Tony and I celebrated our 4 year anniversary last month and since Tony had the day off (what!) we took the kids to Como Town for family fun.  Como town is attached to the small Como Zoo so everytime we go to the zoo, Elijah begs to go on rides at como town.  I had been waiting for a day that we could all go together.

Now, Elijah was excited and ready to get painted up like a super hero, but evie was unsure.  She liked looking through the pictures and saw the other little kids getting their faces done and liked it, but I didnt know if she would freak out while they were actually painting her face. 

 She was wary, but they both did great! Sat still and were very patient.

 Evie still can get nervous on rides by herself, but she LOVES riding ones with elijah!

 

Super hero dance break.

 

Later that evening, we did get to go out on a dinner date by ourselves, but the day out as a family is always special.  Happy anniversary to us!

Wis Dells

 In July, we were able to join much of Tony's family in a trip to waterpark capital of america, Wisconsin Dells.  In preparation, we got elijah into some swimming lessons!

He loved loved loved his swimming lessons.  He was so excited to go and get in the water.

 He made a few little friends in class, but mostly he was the troublemaker.  He was the one wandering a little too far, the one trying to do things the teacher said not to or to wait his turn for, grabbing at the teacher try to get her to hold onto him so he could swim in the deep water.  So...he failed.  Failed swimming lessons.  This does not bode well for his future.  Well, really it was just a piece of paper they gave us with stars and stickers with comments from his teacher about how he did in class. Since he was not the best listener, he would have to stay at the same level if he wanted to do swim lessons again.  Womp womp.  That's okay though because his age group is 3-5 anyways.

 We went to Mt Olympus waterpark the first day in the Dells and they had a MASSIVE wave pool in which every 3 mins or so one giant tidal wave would crash over the crowd of people.  More than a few in our party got some bumps and scrapes from getting dragged in the wave

 Evie just watched from above.

 We also went to a smaller park the next day which was a lot more relaxing and had a much more kid friendly wave pool, but I didnt get any pics there.  I DID however, get pics at the best restaurant ever, Buffalo Phils.  We heard about this place before we went and I was determined to go.  So right before we got on the road, we stopped to eat. 

 The reason this place is so awesome is because you can sit in a certain section where a small train will deliver your food.  TO YOUR TABLE.  Elijah was amazed. I think we all were.  It was so fun.

 Elijah wore this hat for three days.

Buffalo Phils was also attached to some sort of mini arcade carnival thing, so Tony took elijah on some go karts, again, he loved it.

 

Evie road trip bath