Goodbye Crib, Hello Big Boy Bed!

Beau has been sleeping in his big boy bed for about a month now. He loves to climb in by himself and arrange the pillows, sheets, blankets, and animals the way he likes them. He says "Get in Self" when he does not want us to help him. We hear that more and more frequently now! He has done a great job sleeping in his big boy bed. He wakes up and stays in the bed until we come and get him out. This is great because I was nervous that he would get out of bed and play or get out of his room when he woke up, but so far so good! Here are a few pictures of his bed and new pictures in his room.

The Book

A few nights ago we put Beau in his bed with his favorite book. 2 hours later we heard him sneeze and then start crying very hard. We went in to check on him and realized that he had chewed the corners off his book and shoved them up his nose. It was a lovely experience to remove the pieces from his nose with tweezers, q tips, suctioner, etc. We finally got all 10 or so pieces out and got him to go back to bed. He still loves to read this book (even though some of the words are chewed off now), but he can no longer take the book to bed!

Water Fun

Beau loves to play in the water! I think he could play in water all day long. Here are a few pictures of him loving the water...

Beach Trip 09

We spent the last week of June relaxing at the beach with my family. We stayed in a condo called "Splash" with my Mom and Dad for a week. Nonna even came down to stay with Beau for a few days too. We got to spend lots of time with my aunts, uncles, and cousins who were staying at a beach house right down the road from us.

Beau LOVED the pool, kiddie area with splash splinkers, and the sand. He hated the ocean because it was cold. I was not too upset because I prefer the pool not the ocean too. Rodney loved this condo because the majority of the kiddie pools and the lazy river were covered, so they could play for hours and not worry about getting too much sun. This was great since we are such a fair skinned family! The kiddie area had a HUGE water bucket that dumped water on the kids every 30 seconds or so. I thought Beau would love it....I have never seen my child so terrified of anything before. He would say "No water bucket! No water bucket!" I thought he would play in that area when his cousins came over to play, but he just wanted them to get away from the water bucket too!

Here are a few pictures of our trip:














(This is Beau doing a "flip" before he got in the pool. He saw his older cousins flip into the pool and he wanted to be just like them! He would say Flip! and do this side arm move and then jump in to us)