And finally...
William loves water, that is no secret. So it is no surprise that he loves the fish pond that my Mom has at her house. There are several goldfish in the pond and William thinks it is hilarious to try to catch them with his hands. The fish are really tame (can you tame a fish?) so they come right up to your hand when you put it in the water and nibble on the ends of your fingers. He loves it!
He also likes to splash at the fish…which probably isn’t such a good idea, but he has fun nonetheless. If you look closely in the picture you can see Uncle Aaron’s feet, we stay really close to William while he is near the pond because we know that one of these days he is going to try to swim with the fish!
*an interesting side note…at Josh and I’s wedding reception we had small fish bowls with a goldfish in them sitting on the tables. By the end of the night, many fish were floating in their bowls and some guests did some bad things to the fish, but there were some survivors. My Mom still has a goldfish from our wedding reception in her pond! 9 years later…the thing is still swimming!
I took William to see Thomas Live on Stage, Thomas Saves the Day on Saturday. Josh and I weren’t sure how he would do or if he would sit through the entire show but he surprised us. He sat through the entire show (I’m not sure that he even blinked) and was so good. William loves him some Thomas so it was a special treat that he got to go to the show.
Caroline had softball practice so her and Josh stayed home. It was a day out with my Prince and we had a great time.
Percy and Thomas were there…
There was singing and dancing…
This is what William did the entire show…
After the show was over we went down to the stage and William was able to get a closer look at Thomas…
On the way home from the show he crashed…
It was a fun way to spend the afternoon with my Prince and I know that he had a great time.
Day 3 of our vacation was Friday. We went to a game at Roger Dean Stadium (the spring training field for the Cardinals and the Marlins). The Cardinals played the Detroit Tigers. We had a great time at the game, even though there was a group of kids that were out of control during the game. Caroline worked on getting autographs on her baseball. She got Hall of Famers, Red Schoendienst and Bob Gibson. She also got pitcher, Jake Westbrook and second baseman Skip Schumaker where the big names that she got that day.
After the game we went to the pool at the hotel. The kids just love to swim and William was so excited to see the water. The hotel pool had a slide and the kids were in heaven. Josh had to go down the slide with William but William LOVED it!
We went to another game on Saturday and the Cards played the Twins. We sat by some friends from back home, actually Josh’s cousin Laura and her family where vacationing in Florida too. They go to Spring Training every year and it just so happened that our vacations overlapped this year. Laura and Chris have two little girls and Caroline was super excited to sit by them during the game and show them the ropes of trying to get autographs. At this game she got pitchers Kyle McClellen, Jason Motte, Ryan Franklin and Mitch Boggs. She also got outfielder Matt Holiday, which we found out is her favorite player. So she was SUPER excited to have gotten his autograph (and I think Josh was secretly jealous that she got him to sign her ball, because he is one that Josh doesn’t have).
After the game we had a connection to get onto the field for a picture.
Then after we got our picture taken Caroline was able to get outfielder Colby Rasmus’ autograph. We then headed back to our hotel and did a little pool time.
Our flight left StL at 6:30am so it was an early wake up for us. We landed in Ft Lauderdale, FL at 12:30pm and then had an hour drive to our hotel in Jupiter, FL. We traveled on Ash Wednesday so after we checked into the hotel we went to church. After church we went to have dinner at a seafood place that was on the water. The restaurant was terrible but the view was amazing. The dining area looked out over the water and we could see the lighthouse. After we finished our meal we walked out on the dock and looked around.
After dinner we went back to the hotel and crashed because we had all been up since 3:30am!
The next day we got up early and went to the stadium. The Cardinals were playing an away game so we wanted to watch the players that didn’t travel with the team practice. There were a few pitchers and minor league players at practice. Albert Puljos didn’t travel to the game and was at the stadium, we could hear him taking batting practice in the batting cages but he never came out to the practice fields. Oh, and we saw him get into his truck and leave the stadium. ;)
We stayed at practice for a few hours and then decided to take the kids to the Playmobil Fun Park that Caroline had been dying to go to. She LOVES Playmobil and was so excited to get to go to the fun park.
They basically had every Playmobil toy known to man set up on small tables and the kids were able to go and play with whatever they wanted. Caroline was in Playmobil heaven, literally.
William enjoyed himself too. He was drawn to the trucks, airplanes and helicopters.
As we were leaving we let the kids pick out something in the store. Caroline had been saving her money and was able to get a few pieces that she had been eyeing in the catalog that she wanted as well as a Fun Park “Exclusive” set that she was pretty excited about. William picked out a helicopter that he likes to play with.
The rest of the day we spent lounging around the hotel room and at the shopping mall looking for sunglasses. I broke my sunglasses before we left and Josh forgot his at home. Who goes to Florida without sunglasses…we do!
