poke it with a stick. image gallery: January 2019

apps with auntie

on the way to the manatee park, barbara showed ledger one of the silly apps on her phone that made goofy pictures. he was obsessed! they messed around with that thing for almost an hour! here are some of the funny results:

goodbye, florida

the boys take one last opportunity to go swimming.

fun in the pool with auntie barbara!

making a house of cards with uncle james.

goodbye, pool

an orange snack.

playing air hockey with grandma and tavish!

making up their own rules for the pool table.

the kitchen

the dining area and front living room.

the boys playing in their room.

ledge stops for a picture with mickey and minnie on the front porch!

david's birthday

mom brings out the cake as we sing to david!

the boys swooped in and kept angling for the biggest piece of cake they could talk grandma into...

now that's an excited boy!

yup, someone is thrilled with their cake!

smiles with auntie barbara and uncle james!

b and james snugglin.

boat ride

the boys checking out all the cool animals!

mom and david living it up! they had both been looking forward to this day all week!

the boat captain had a few treats to buy. since this was a special occasion, we let ledge get anything he wanted. he was almost more excited about the treat than seeing crocs!

enjoying the view with uncle james!

i really enjoyed the view! oh, the stuff in the background was pretty too...

enjoying the manatees

it was a bit too early, but ledger is always up for a little pad pad time!

enjoying the walk through the manatee park.

we could see hundreds of manatees in the clear water- ledger even spotted a baby and mama manatee playing!

a little snuggle with grandma at the manatee statue.

checking it all out.

the trail leads all the way to the spring. we made it there and figured we should get a picture.

epcot night

after we ditched the kids, we all went out for a nice dinner in morrocco!

we met back up with barbara, james, and alanna after diana and i had finished wandering around together.

the only way we could actually fit everyone to go home...

wander with the mrs.

a picture in front of the statues in italy.

china looked really cool in the dark!

it got a bit colder than diana was expecting, so we stopped in mexico and got her a cute sweatshirt!

we had a good view of the evening light and firework show.

a panoramic view of epcot at night.

sea horse time!

checking out the fish. i just thought the silhouette of ledger with those mouse ears looked really cool!

ledge could climb inside this big shark exhibit and imagine what it would be like to be eaten by bruce!

big smiles from the boys!

now that's a happy girl! eventually she was willing to move on from the sea horses. she wasn't done looking at them, just recognized that the rest of her family was moving on with or without her...