Vacation time!!

It’s vacation time! I really wanted to go to the beach this year and then I began to imagine a 7+ hour trip with a two-year old. Does that sound like a vacation or torture?

So we opted for…drum roll please…Nashville. What? Yep. Because we wanted to go somewhere new….. Ok, just kidding. Nashville sounds good because we can visit family, friends, and I found lots of cool places for us to go.

We started with a stop at Grandma and Grandpa Gale’s house in Dickson, TN where my dad met us. We haven’t seen them in about a year so it was time to catch up with them again. Then it was to Nannie and Pawpaw’s house. Caleb really didn’t know where we were going to when we were almost there I told him we were about to be at Nannie and Pawpaw’s house to which he replied “Oh, yeah!!”.

Caleb had so much fun dancing around and playing with Nannie and Pawpaw. Nannie had a surprise waiting for him when we got there. A tent….or as Caleb says a “welwo red tent”. That means a yellow and red tent. He was in heaven!

Bedtime came and Caleb wasn't ready for it. Even though it came close to midnight. Yikes. I ended up having to sleep on the floor with him. He woke up several times in the night but I was able to pat him on the back and he fell back asleep. About 5:30 am, he woke up, layed his head on my tummy and that's how he slept (and I didn't) for another hour and a half. Would I move to get him off? Are you kidding me? I'm not gonna wake him for nothing. I'd rather be tired than have a tired two year old.

Nannie bought Caleb some juice boxes that had Elmo on them, or as Caleb's calls them, Elmo juice. Now when we sing the theme song for "Elmo's world", Caleb sings it like this...."la la la la Elmo's juice". Oh, and every juice is now Elmo juice.