The family vacation

So, my mom pointed out that I haven't updated my blog in awhile. I really had great intentions, but by the time I can sit down and type...I'm too tired to type! So, I have been trying to remember all the little things I need to type on here...so I'm sure I have forgotten most of them! LOL

So, we just came back from Lido Beach with the kids. For those (like myself) that are geographically challenged, that is right at Sarasota. It's one of my favorite vacations that we do every year. We stay at Lido Beach Resort. The kids love it because there is a pool and it's right on the beach. The hard part: Kade loves the beach...Kylee loves the pool! Oh the fighting that happens!

Kylee has gotten very good at swimming this year. I put her in swimming lessons for 2 weeks (20 mins a day) and the difference it made! She will swim under water now and doesn't freak out about her face getting wet. She was jumping off the side of the pool and could turn and go back to the wall. She would swim to me under the water with her face down. Kade...well, he liked the idea and I had to basically explain to him he would sink like an anchor. Swimming lessons for him coming soon! He's my little terror!
I hav realized that "relaxing, family vacation" is an oxymoron...especially when you have a 2 and 6 year old. I remember so many of my vacations growing up, though, and hope that something will stick with them..and they will remember these as fun.

**********conversations with the kids****************

Both kids are playing and loud...
Me: "Use your inside voices please"
Kade: "I don't have an inside voice"

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How you know your kids have been to hibachi one too many times....
At TGI Fridays...dh is taking the onions out of his burger and putting them on the side of the plate...

Kade: "Daddy...make a volcano!"

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Same TGI Fridays lunch.....Kylee gets sauce from her ribs on her dress...

Me: "don't worry about it bubba...we can put stuff on it when we get home"
Kylee: "thats right...we have oxyclean, huh mommy"
Me: "Yup"
Kylee: "With stain-fighting power"
Me "uh-huh"
Kylee: "not like those other chlorine bleaches that are only good on whites but not on darks, right mommy"?
Me: (thinking maybe she has watched too much television this summer...or she is vying for Billy Mays job) "um...right"