Kayleigh had a blast hanging out with her Bapa. She definitely has his number...
Logan enjoys playing the guitar with Bapa - Logan was very serious about strumming the "tar". He only lost the pick a few times...
One day, we went out on Bapa's bass boat. It's a little different than our deeper V boat, but it was fun. It goes, as Logan would say, "faster, faster". Kayleigh had "troll hair" due to the wind.
Logan got to drive the boat. He sort of went in circles. But Bapa was there to keep us from running aground.
Here we all are! Bapa, Logan, Mommy, and Kayleigh. And somehow, we talked Gram into taking us to the Shack (a hamburger joint) after boating. Yay!
Another day, we went to Garvan Gardens. They have a new children's section. I don't know what I was expecting, but it was all rocks and streams. So, Logan jumped in, and Kayleigh was not sure what she wanted to do. But she eventually got in, though she was not a fan of the muddy bottom.
Good thing we had a change of clothes for this wet one! He had such fun once we walked it a few times. He threw rocks and sticks and tromped around. When he was walking on the rocks, he'd say over and over again, "I gotta be careful, right Mommy? I gotta be careful." Don't know if he was trying to make me more comfortable, or to remind himself!
The gang (minus Gram) in front of the waterfall.
No birthday is complete without a birthday present. This was our present to Bapa - a faux-Underarmor shirt (funderarmor?) with the kids footprints on it. Apparently, he really likes it!
We went to the Shack again with Mr. Wayne and Ms. Delma on Bapa's actual birthday. Then we came home and had Tennessee Chocolate Sheet Cake, Bapa's cake every year. Logan and Kayleigh "helped" blow out the candle. Logan basically spit on the piece of cake, but whatever. Then, in true Logan form, he had to have a candle for his cake. Didn't care if anyone sang to him, but he's a little bit of a pyro.
Logan and Gram read "I am a Bunny" many times. But after only about 2 times of reading it, Logan could recite some of it back to Gram. By the time we left, he could almost "read" the whole thing by himself! His memory is amazing (as evidenced by the fact that he can remember his Bible verse after 2 times of hearing it - it's said I - - trustinyourWord. Psalm 119:42!).
We had a great time with Gram and Bapa, and Logan was sad when they didn't get on the plane with us.
But it's all good, Gram came down a few days later to watch the kids while I went to a scrapbooking retreat in Central Texas. Fun - plus, I got to see my BIG brother before he deploys to Afghanistan. So that was a real treat. Good timing of the deploying and the retreat - God really works things out.
