A New Era of Sleep

So we have been putting off transitioning Emma from a crib to a toddler bed as long as possible. My theory was why ruin a good thing? At night if Emma is not sleepy yet she will crawl out of her crib & come running into the living room.  In the mornings she still would call out for one of us to get her.

Well, this am around 6:45 (mind you we did not go to bed until 10p & I nicely asked her to sleep until 8am Swhich she agreed to!) I hear her stirring. So I get up & find that she has met me halfway in the bathroom, Baby in hand!  Time to figure this all out! Things have been WAY to easy with getting her to sleep and now I feel we are about to be handed some real fun. 

Earning her Sea Legs

Umm Papa can I drive the boat now?

Papa I wanna go in there!

St. Simons Island

A few weeks ago my mom was visiting GA so we decided to make the trip down there as an early Mother's Day present to Grandma Kathy & Meme.  It was nice to see 2 grandmothers in one trip & we got to spend some time with my sister Aunt Erica and my friend Kim & her daughter Addy Ruth (another child whose mom is trying to give her a combined 2 name :).

The weather was great so spent one afternoon at the beach looking for shells and digging in the sand.  My sister is spending the summer living at beach shack (not really but its a tiny room on the bottom of a VERY nice beach house) & it has its own mini sand beach. So when Emma got tired of the water & jellyfish we headed up to the shade.  This was her first time at the beach since she was 9 months old & we were in Barbados.  Now she could spend all day there! 

Emma kept asking Papa about going out in the boat so finally on saturday we took her out in his smaller boat. The only problem was that this boat must be launched into the river & then we have to walk out to it.  At first we tried putting Emma in the boat & then walking out to it.  Well, Emma did not like that idea & then refused to get in it.  Dad reminded me that he had this same experience with another little girl about 33 years ago!!! So the next idea was for me to get into the boat & then he would put Emma in it.  After that it was smooth sailing. Emma kept reminding Papa to go slow but about 10 minutes into the ride she was moving around & wanting to help papa.  We pulled up 3 crab traps so Emma could see them.  Our ultimate goal was to find dolphins but we were not having any luck so Papa just drove around.  Then all of a sudden Emma stated she wanted to go IN the water soooo we let her. She practically jumped out of the boat but quickly realized the water was cold.  Dripping wet she got back in and 15 minutes later she wanted out again.  At the end of our journey we saw a dolphin but he escaped our viewing.  One of ways I convinced Emma to go was telling her it would be like the Jungle Cruise. For the most part we were in the marsh so it had a jungle feel to it.  She kept asking when we were going to see the Monkeys & Elephants!!!  By the end our biggest concern was going to be getting her out of the boat.  I see many more boat rides in our future!