Bush Gardens
Before I knew I was pregnant, we choose to purchase season passes to Bush Gardens. It would be fun for the kiddo, and AK and I LOVE to ride ride's. However, it's turned into a summer spent quarantined in Elmo's land and swollen ankles. Our first trip to Bush Garden's, trying to explain where we were going was very difficult, Mady wasn't interested in going anywhere that morning, but to the park, so I admitted "Sure sweety, were going to the park. A really, REALLY big park!" When we arrived, her eyes were the size of quarter's! She pointed straight to the sky at a roller coaster and shouted:
"Look Mommy! A Choo-choo!!! "choo-choo" has now climbed the hill and makes the first fall "OOOOOO, a slide?" poor kid is completely puzzled, with cris-crossed eyebrows as she watches this contraption of a ride make loops and people scream.
Then the light bulb goes off:
"IT'S A CHOO-CHOO SLIDEEEEE!!! Let's GO!"
My fearless child enjoyed the entire day without missing a beat. We visited Elmo and watched shows, took train rides, saw the baby Clydesdale and rode rides. Her first ride was in Elmo's world (or whatever it's called). We stood in the line and she waited patiently, I was sweating bullets that she would sit in the seat and immediately loose her marbles and scream during the duration of the ride. Finally, it was our turn, I placed her itsy-bitsy body in the seat and climbed into the one next to her. All the while trying to give her a pep-talk about how much fun this is going to be! ..... please note the picture below, she wasn't interested one bit. She's like "I got this mommy, you just sit back and hold on, im all over it."
She rode the entire ride with a smile ear to ear, waving at daddy and shouting "Wahoo!!!" The worst part was convincing her the ride was over, then it was onto finding ANYTHING else that was motorized and would take her for a whirl, fortunately, Bush Gardens has plenty for little one's and she rode most everything else her age and loved every bit of it :)
Tangier Island
For Ne-Naw's birthday this year we spent the weekend at Pop's river. It was nice to sit back and relax, enjoy the river, water, sunshine and family. The drive down was hellacious, storms this summer have been fierce and driving in them late Friday night was anything but easy. When we finally arrived, everyone headed straight to bed, because Saturday morning began at 8am.
We were all estatic to take Mady on her first boat ride, upon arriving she immediately noticed the ferry and got so excited! We boarded and the excitement wore off within 3m. We sat and waited for what seemed forever in the painfully hot heat, we were all cranky, sleepy and hot, then the ferry finally took off. We enjoyed walking around and soon she fell asleep in my lap on the front of the ferry enjoying the breeze.
Tangier Island was wonderful. Exploring how they live, eat and their community was amazing. Our first stop was to eat. Everything was served 'Family Style'. We enjoyed ham steaks, taters, the BEST fresh beats, green beans, cole slaw, dinner rolls, applesauce, and finally -- the best Crabcakes I have ever eaten in my life. Tangier is a crabbing island, and as a community they have mastered how to cook crabcakes! Delicious!
We explored the island for a few hours and then Ferry'd back home. On the way back, Madelynne threw her arms up and yelled to us "IM ON A BOAT!!" inspired from SNL's Skit, On a boat. She had heard us quoting the song all day and finally caught on, it cracked us all up :)
The rest of our weekend was perfectly relaxing. She enjoyed playing in the river with daddy, catching crabs and fishies. And I enjoyed catching some sun and relaxing by myself on the pier. It was well deserved and appreciated by all of us!
Winnie the Pooh in the MOVIES!
What better film for a "first movie" than Winnie the Pooh? Mady enjoys a couple tv shows, and has seen Pooh better and can identify him, but we weren't quite sure if an entire movie would be able to hold her attention. However, I wanted to share this experience with her as a family date for the three of us, and really didn't want to miss the opportunity for such a perfect first movie.
That morning we woke up and talked about Pooh Bear all day, she was very interested in him and kept asking to watch the movie she already owned, I said "No sweety, we are going to see him at the movies! On a really big tv!" We choose the 11am showing, and after breakfast and getting dressed, we all headed out for our big day.
The moment we stepped inside, she saw the HUGE movie poster's hanging on the wall, it melted me that I forgot that all of this is absolutely new to her. She was fascinated. We stood in line and purchased our ticket. Walking thru the doors, she carried all our tickets and waited to give the nice lady her's. When the lady took them Mady smiled and informed her "Mady going to Ninnie-Pooh!" she took her stub and walked along with everyone else stright for the concession stand. (totally my kid, she's already hungry). I ordered her a Kid's Pack that came with a Juice box, fruit gummies, and a small popcorn; it was perfect for her.
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