westward, ho!!

you guys. the rumors are true.
this little crew is moving out west. to UTAH. (WHAT?! but, caity! you said you'd never---)
I KNOW WHAT I SAID!
but when your husband gets offered the job of his *dreams* that also happens to be just skip and a hop from your mama's house.... YOU GO!

here's the scoop:
brad works in video games, right? so there's this thing (let me see if i get this right) called "AAA" which is basically the select few big-league video game companies, where if you break into them, your career in video games is made. Ooo i just looked it up on wikipedia ok here is what it means:

"In the video game industry, AAA (pronounced "triple A") is a classification term used for games with the highest development budgets and levels of promotion. A title considered to be AAA is therefore expected to be a high quality game and to be among the year's bestsellers." -- wikipedia 

basically, if you're in games, AAA is where you wanna be! so, we discovered a AAA opportunity that happened to be in the salt lake area that was waaaay too good to pass up. perfect company, perfect position, perfect team. so he went for it and got it! we are beyond thrilled for him, this is such a big step in his career and we couldn't be more excited.

also...did i mention it's only an hour from each of our parents?!?!?!
and did i mention we would be cutting our rent, living expenses, and basically all of our costs almost in half by leaving the east coast?
it's basically a win win. win win win.
will i miss the beauty and culture of the east coast? yes.
will i miss all the people i love dearly out here? very yes.
will i miss the exorbitant cost of living? no, no and no. bye felicia.
will i miss brad's commute and long work hours? no.

oh and i bet you're also thinking "but like aren't you having a baby in like a week?" well no, i'm having a baby in FIVE weeks. which means my time left where i'm actually able to fly is limited, so basically.....bea and i are leaving in 10 days. (WHAT?!) we are going to stay with my parents in midway while we find a place to live and then bradley will join us out there the 2nd week of june, at which point *hopefully* we will have a house leased and the movers can bring us all our stuff to said house. we're hoping to be settled somewhere by brad's june 10th start date. a little ambitious, but we've done it before in less time, with less help. the moving package they're offering us is making this all so wonderfully easy, it seems a bit unreal. we are so, so grateful!

this whole opportunity is such a blessing and the answer to many many prayers. we have been thinking of ways to be closer to our families for a while now and this is above and beyond any solution we could have hoped for. we are truly, truly blessed.

being on the east coast has been a wonderful experience for our family, we love so many things about it, and a part of me will always call it home. it's bittersweet that this season of our lives is over. i've loved introducing the east to bradley and loved sharing east coast experiences with bea that i also had when i was her age. i will miss my proximity to the city...it's been a security blanket for me these last 8 years. even if i don't go as often as i could, i've known that i could and that was always comforting to me. it scares me to be far away from new york for some reason. i always feel like a piece of me is missing when i'm too far away; i felt that the 8 years i lived in texas and i'm sure i'll feel it when we make it out to utah. i'm a little nervous about utah culture and fitting in someplace where we don't really fit the mold, but living close to family in an affordable area with bradley at such a great company with a great work/life balance is going to make it all worth it. i really can't wait to get this new chapter started. it's going to be EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

big girl and baby brother

and just like that, my little baby is 2.

just can't hold still for a pose.

what initially started out as a relatively low key birthday for bea turned into a really fun (yet exhausting) day of celebrating with friends (and facetiming with family. curse you western states for stealing my family!)
i'm feeling the need to record the whole day. so. i will. feel free to browse, skip, or jump.
we had a fun birthday lunch with a couple of bea's favorite grown up friends, after which bea took an exceptionally long nap and woke up at 4 pm, so our plans to go to her favorite place (the aquarium, or as she calls it, the "karen") were derailed, so i decided to return something i'd been needing to return from homegoods and let her look at the toys there and pick something out with the store credit. i was skeptical that she'd pick anything because we tried to get her to pick something out at the toy store earlier that week with some birthday money she'd gotten from a great grandma, and she really could not be bothered. she loves the toy store, but she treats it like a museum more than anything else. she looks and wonders at all the toys, and oohs and ahhs, and occasionally will very carefully reach out and touch something but when we ask if she wants to take something home she just says, and i quote, "nope. i'm good." isn't that hilarious?! i'm going to try and keep that toy store attitude going for as long as possible! it makes it very easy to leave when it's time to go. no tantrums or "I WANT THAT!!!!!!"
anyway, i thought homegoods would be a repeat of the toy store experience, which it kind of was, but then in the clearance aisle, there was a pile of wadded up tutus. she looked at them (because, pink and purple) and went "mom! scarf?" and i told her "no, these are tutus!" i held them up to look at them and saw they were all only 3.50 a pop! so i looked them over to find the rips or tears that obviously had to be there in order for them to be that marked down, but nope! they were in great shape! when i held them up, she went "YAY! TEWTEWTS!!!!!" (which is what she calls tutus) and i was like "yeah! do you want to take one home?! heck, let's take two!!" and she grabbed a magenta sparkly one and a purple one. so that was fun. it's the first thing she grabbed in a store and really wanted to bring home.

birthday cheese

"HAPPY BERDAY AH YOU!!!!!"

then we went to carvel to pick up her cake. bradley and i had heard from several new england natives that a carvel "fudgie the whale" cake is a rite of passage for an east coast kid, so we decided to hop on that bandwagon and get that cake, because you never know where you're gonna be a year from now!

fudgie in all his delicious glory

after that, we went home and had hot dogs and mac and cheese for dinner (her previous request, current favorite breakfast cereal and overall food "special k" or "feshul k" was denied) and she played just dance (a favorite activity. i watch because i am fat and pregnant at the moment) until brad came home. then some very dear friends of ours who have 3 girls under the age of 7 came to celebrate and have cake with us. with 3 little friends, they basically brought the party with them and the girls had so much fun showing bea how to have a birthday like a big girl.
i didn't realize it until it was present opening time, but we sort of over did it. i was so concerned that we hadn't really gotten her any presents to open at christmas time because we were traveling, and her big birthday present was a play kitchen, so it wasn't a present that gets unwrapped, so i had been accumulating things all month long for her to be able to open. she had puzzles, dress ups, books, dishes, play food, and on top of that, gifts from relatives that had all arrived in the mail that week. it was a little over the top but hey, how often do you turn 2?! the girls all played with bea and her new presents, watched frozen and then headed home very ready for bed. all in all, a really great way to spend a birthday. she had been looking forward and patiently waiting for it for weeks, and i think it lived up to all the hype. she had a great day.

the next morning playing in her new princess castle from her aunt and uncle!

i hardly got any pictures because we were facetiming the whole time! oh well. this is what i got. hat and apron from gramma W and kitchen from mom and dad.

also, in other news WE ARE HAVING A BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i was so excited when the ultrasound tech told us i almost cried. for various health reasons and after a lot of prayerful thinking, bradley and i decided a while ago that we would probably need to stop after 2 children. so i was really hoping for a boy, just because i'd really love to know what it's like to raise both a boy and a girl in this lifetime. of course i would have been just as happy with a girl but i feel like i would have always had this inkling to try *one more time* for a boy. i think heavenly father probably knew that and this little dude is a sign that we are donezo. I AM SO EXCITED! bea is excited too. i told her that the baby in my tummy is a boy, like daddy and that she is a girl, like mommy. she kind of gets it. she always points the the ultrasound pictures hanging up and then to my tummy and says "that's the mommy's baby tummy!!!! baby brother!!!!"

obligatory creepy 3d pic. i think he looks like bradley...?!

no mistake about it. that there is a dude.

the ultrasound went super well, no health issues, he is perfectly intact (: the only bummer is that my suspicious were confirmed and i do have an anterior placenta so i can't feel his movement as well as i felt bea's. i'm feeling a bit on the inside but nothing from the outside with my hand or anything. maybe that will change as he gets bigger (he already is 11 oz!!!) but for now it's a little quiet in there. i feel him pretty often it's just not very drastic.

these past few days i have just been overwhelmed with gratitude for how life for my little family is going right now. i am so grateful for bea and for who she is and for the little guy on the way. i am grateful we have a great place to live and that all of our needs are being met and that bradley is enjoying furthering his career in the city he loves. i am grateful to be close to the city i love, even though i haven't been able to go much lately. i am grateful to have friends both new and old around us. i'm grateful that i'm finally not feeling so sick anymore and that i can start taking bea out to do fun things. and, even though the winter royally sucks, i'm grateful to have brad home a day or so per week because of all the snow and ice.

climbing out of the crib.

ok so i had to write this down, it had us laughing too hard to go undocumented.

bea learned to climb out of a pack n play while staying at grandparents' last week. she only does it when she is really, really, really not wanting to go to bed and having a 2 year old temper tantrum. it only happened once while we were in utah. we just got home from our month in utah this evening and decided to try and put bea down at normal time to try to get the "getting back on schedule" thing in motion. she was not happy about it. she climbed out of her crib before i even got out the door of her room. i put her back in and left the room, and soon enough she burst out of the door and came running into the living room. so we decided to put her in the big girl bed to see if she would stay. negative. she ran out of the room within seconds then too. SO. i laid down with her for a minute until she got quiet and tried to sneak out. and she ran out after me. SOOOO. we decided to put her in her crib and lock the door (it locks from the inside but she doesn't know how to unlock it yet. knock on wood.). she was banging on the door within seconds, screaming louder than i've ever heard her scream. we let her hang out by the door for a bit and it finally got quiet so i went in to check on her-- she was scrambling trying to get onto the big girl bed. i helped her in, covered her up, and tried to leave but she ran after me so i tried the old plop her in the crib and lock the door approach. she was at the door in seconds and screamed for a few minutes and then FINALLY got quiet. (this was like....90 minutes from the beginning of this whole ordeal at this point) it was quiet for a while so i went in to check on her and put her in bed, and i heard her snoring but she wasn't in her crib and not in the big girl bed... and then i turned around and saw this:

she is OUT. hahahahahaha isn't that great?!

so. i picked her up and put her in her crib and locked the door. she got up and ran to the door and then got quiet after like one minute. i went in to check on her after a minute to put her in bed and she was back in her chair! i asked her if she just wanted to sleep in her chair and she said "yeah." and i asked if she wanted a blanket and she said "no!" and then finally i asked "do you want to get in the big girl bed?" and she said "yes!" so i put her in and covered her up and she FINALLY stayed in and stayed quiet!!!
it was a crazy night full of two year old antics but bradley and i were rolling in the aisles the whole time. she keeps us laughing, that is for sure. our first order of business is to get a bed rail tomorrow! i guess big girl bed training starts now!

another cummings is coming!! June 2015!

wow you guys. i haven't blogged in 2 months and it is basically because i knew that if i did, i would totally SPILL THE BEANS! so now that i have finally made it through the first {miserable} trimester i can finally tell you that yes,

WE ARE HAVING ANOTHER BABY!!!!!!!!!

baby #2 is due June 25, 2015 and we could not be more thrilled. i've been lying pretty low for the past few months, bea and i spent most of november holed up at home while i wallowed on the couch eating crackers, drinking ginger ale and trying not to barf while letting bea watch entirely too much television when finally brad and my mom said "enough!" and let me come to utah early for the holidays on december 3rd. so bea and i have been hanging out in utah for the entire month of december being spoiled by grandma and grandpa (or as she calls them, mamaw and papa). i haven't had to cook once and i think i have done dishes maybe one time since being in utah. it has been magical, and quite a lifesaver as this pregnancy has been much, much harder than my first. i never felt sick with bea and with this one, the nausea, indigestion, and heartburn are RELENTLESS. i am like a walking, talking Pepto-Bismol ad. like this one:



only without any of the relief (because, no pepto during pregnancy, duh!) and... no diarrhea. like the polar opposite of diarrhea actually. which is equally miserable. #tmi #ishjustgotreal

add a hefty serving of severe fatigue and a toddler to top it all off and you have the past three months at the cummings home! i mean i can't really complain about bea, because i mean look at her, she is perfect. but while she may have an never ending outpouring of energy, i unfortunately do not. im pretty sure she sucks mine out of me. with her cuteness.

i'm almost 15 weeks along and i am showing quite a bit. i am definitely, unmistakably pregnant, but since i haven't announced it (until now) i've been trying to avoid any and all social situations (or just showing up in a big coat and never removing it) so as to avoid addressing the elephant in the room. i am excited to finally come out of hiding. i am still feeling sick several days a week but it is a huge improvement from the all day err day sickness i was experiencing earlier.

and, if you're wondering, we find out the gender at the end of january. my guess is boy, brad thinks it's another princess. i will honestly be thrilled either way. since our plan is to only have 2, i am hankering a little for a boy just so i can know what it's like to have a son in this lifetime, but then again, is there a sweeter bond in this world than between sisters?! so really, either way, it's a win. i know some great families of 4 that have 2 girls and have long admired their sisterly friendships and would love to experience that in our home. but then again, the boy, the girl, the perfect american family? hard to resist. i just don't even have a preference.

i guess this post will probably double as our holiday card, because amid all the pregnancy sickness, traveling and REALLY not wanting to be photographed (is there anything more flattering than a photo of a woman in early pregnancy? the answer is yes, everything in the universe.) i really have not even thought or cared about getting a proper greeting card together. although i have loved receiving all of yours! i haven't been home to get them out of the mail but brad took pictures of all of them and texted them to me while i've been away and i am always just floored at how we are so blessed to be friends with so many great people.

so as per holiday card requirements i will give a brief update of where we are and what we're doing:

Bradley: accepted a job in new york city at the end of july as a marketing manager at a mobile gaming company called FreshPlanet. they make social gaming apps and such and bradley is loving it. he still runs his iOSboardgames.com blog on the side and it is growing and gaining more and more followers and notoriety each day. it opens up exciting opportunities for him on a regular basis, which included a trip to italy earlier this year! he is a busy guy but his favorite job is being a daddy to the coolest (almost) 2 year old around.

Caity: besides being pregnant, nothing really new has come up for me (besides our move back from philly to connecticut in july). i still am blessed to be able to stay with bea during the day and i love it SO MUCH. we have a lot of fun together. i started a new church calling in cub scouts (webelos assistant den leader) and am learning the ropes of scouting. which will all be useless if this next little nugget is a lady. we love our apartment and love being back in the NYC area and taking advantage of what it has to offer. (i.e. we took bea to the radio city music hall christmas spectacular before we left for utah and she had a blast!! definitely will have to do that again! and maybe next time i will actually take pictures!)

Bea: is allllllmost 2 (will be in january) and is, in a word, a riot. we love having this girl around. she is talking up a storm, and we usually know what she is talking about these days. she has FINALLY gotten over being obsessed with spooky things  and halloween and is all about "baby jesus", "Kissmas cheese!" (christmas trees), "YITES!" (lights) and "OPEN PRESENTS!". but not santa. she really, really does not like santa. maybe next year. she got some great christmas presents this year, her favorite of which is a hello kitty tea set. she was trying to tell us about it in the car today but she forgot what it was called. she kept saying "CUP POTTY! CUP POTTY!" which confused us to no end because, as she is progressing with her potty training, we thought she was trying to tell us about some new kind of potty, but alas, she was saying "cup PARTY" because she forgot it's called a "tea party". we all had a pretty good laugh after that. our days are filled with moments like those. she loves to sing and interpretive dance. she knows the words to lots of songs but her favorites are "the itsy bitsy spider", "are you sleeping?", and of course, the ever popular "let it go". we got her just dance 2015 for christmas for the sole purpose of having her dance to "let it go" which is featured on the playlist. she loves that game and watching her play is a lot of fun, she gets very serious about getting the moves down. she loves puzzles and is actually really really good at them and can complete some that are beyond her age level pretty speedily. she loves the alphabet and knows several letters. she is finally figuring out more colors than just pink and blue. some days she can count to 8 by herself and some days she can't. it's completely arbitrary. she loves her grandparents. she knows to point to my tummy and say "mommy's tummy!" when i ask where the baby is but i'm pretty sure she has zero idea what that means. she loves horses (neigh-neighs). she loves to color. she loves riding in the car. and she is starting to hate going to bed. #toddlersamiright

anyway. we took some impromptu family photos today with brad's family so there may be some family pics on their way soon after all. we shall see....! happy 2015 ya'll!!

spooky!

we had such a fun weekend! bea is quickly getting more and more into this halloween business. we found some old orange and black decorative lights in the closet, we call them the "spooky lights", and bea asks me to turn them on every single day. when i turn them on she points and yells "FOOOOKY!!!!!" we haven't mastered the "sp-" sound yet. i'll try and get her to say "ssssssss-pooky!" and she goes "sssssss-FOOKY!!!!" it is very cute. so, after the spooky lights, she has been busy pointing at any other thing that can be considered spooky. at the trunk or treat on friday, she had a blast pointing out all the spooky stuff! some of it though, was a little much, and when we would get too close she just hid her face in my knees and said "no! noooo!!!!!" baby girl knows her limits.

we made bea frida kahlo for halloween. i knew not everyone would get it, but i knew it would be very funny to the people who did. i was right. about 60% got it and 40% didn't but the people who got it LOVED it! they asked for pictures and just gushed about how cute and funny she was. it was great because bea is usually a very cheery and smiley child but for some reason the night of the trunk or treat, she got really solemn and was very stone-faced the whole evening. it was PERFECT! she very much looked the part. she loved saying "trick or treat!" ("trickey beet!") at all the cars and was very excited to use her happy meal halloween bucket. she was even more excited when people started putting candy in it. she was a pro by the end of the night, picking the pieces up herself and putting them into her bucket. it was a great night. both of the wards we've lived in here were combined at the trunk or treat this year so it was a lot of fun for us in particular because we knew most of the people handing out candy. it was nice to be among so many friends (:

striking a serious pose

rocking the unibrow

very serious.

the next day was GORGEOUS and it was our first free saturday in AGES, so we seized the opportunity to finally go apple picking! it was a lot of fun. as opposed to all of the other times we had planned to go, we actually went without anyone else. i feel like a lot of the time we feel like we need to invite people to go places or be extra social but it was actually really nice to just have some family time just the three of us. bea loved picking out a "spooky pumpkin" ("fooky pungin!!") and had a great time picking apples. apples are one of her favorite foods so it was sweet to see her get excited about picking them. after we finished up at the orchard we went to the market part of the orchard where there was hot apple crisp, pony rides, and a carriage ride around the old farm community. we decided to just let her watch the pony rides and take the carriage ride instead. she got to sit right up front close to the horses and had a lot of fun watching them trot.

lyman orchards is SO beautiful!

almost there

finally got it!

the only one of these shots where they are both looking at the camera!

this is the stuff of postcards! no filter ya'll!

trying to sit on a pumpkin. 

she couldn't figure it out there, but now that we have pumpkins at home she sits on them all the time.

try as we might, we could just not get a great picture of her in the pumpkin patch!

our final picks. mine is the round big one, brad's is the taller thinner one, and bea's is the small one in front. good looking pumpkins if i do say so myself.

so. as you can see. fun weekend. today was stake conference and she was like.....really really good. it was a little scary how good she was. this whole week has just been a little magical. bea has slept past 8:45 each morning and been amazingly pleasant during the days and went down for her naps without complaint (which she actually always does but given that she woke up so late every day, i was a little surprised). i'm hoping this next week brings some of the same good fortune. i can't wait til halloween on friday when we can take her trick or treating for real! october has been such a sweet month for us, i'm sad that it's almost over but excited to see what next month brings!

The Norwalk Oyster Festival

i benefited from someone else's misfortune this week. bradley was sick on thursday and friday so he worked from home both days, and i absolutely LOVED having him home! since monday was labor day, bradley was only in the city 2 days this week, so we kind of capitalized on his presence with early dinners, long lunch breaks, and bea making frequent check-ins on daddy. i hope he works from home for good someday, he actually gets a lot done, and we are pretty good at leaving him alone to work for the most part (despite bea running into the room just to make sure he's there every so often). even though we let him work all day, it's just nice to all be in the same place at the same time.

anyway. since bea and i didn't leave the house much thursday or friday, and bradley was home both of those days, we all woke up this morning prettttty stir crazy. it was time to get out. we remembered seeing a ton of carnival equipment being set up earlier this week and some signs for an "oyster festival" this weekend so we looked it up online and decided it would be the perfect saturday outing!
the fair grounds aren't far from our house (1.5 miles), and most of the parking listed online was about as far away with shuttle services to the grounds so we just thought it would make the most sense to walk. especially since parking was like 15 dollars. #nothanks
BUT YOU GUYS IT WAS SO HOT!!!!! i walk 3-4 miles everyday for my choice of exercise, so i love to walk but oh my goodness gracious this whole walk had ZERO shade and it was like a hundred million degrees and stiflingly humid. but we made it there alive. and noticed a lot of street parking along the way. BUT OH WELL!
there was no shade once we got there either so our first order of business was to find a tent somewhere. and we did. under which was a MINI CIRCUS! with a show that started in just 5 minutes!!!

i've never been to a little rinky dink circus before and i'll tell you it was super cute and a little bizarre. bea was pretty enthralled at first but then the music made her a little scared. i know on instagram i totally blamed the crying on the clowns buttttt i lied. she was crying because the russian stunt performing family had loud weird music.

 and then was still crying when the clown came on. and then she got over it and wandered around and before i knew it she was on the little stage and i had to run and get her. so that was fun. anyway the little circus was cute, there was this little russian couple that did outfit change stunts; the lady would like step into a hula hoop with a tinsel fringe shade around it and step out in a totally different outfit. and the outfits went from long to short and then to long again so i really have no idea how she did it. it was really interesting to watch them, they were so proud of their craft and i just really appreciated it. it was interesting to think of what a life as a russian circus performer in america would be like. i'd love to learn more about it. they just looked like they absolutely loved what they were doing. where did they learn to do it? was it a family tradition? were their parents also circus performers? so many questions.
anyway, besides them there was a clown and then there was a canadian 12 year old boy who did some crazy balancing stuff with a great deal of flair (i really do admire circus workers for the pride they show in their work!) and then the russians did some hula hoop stunts and that was basically it. it didn't last long but being in the shade was reallllllly nice.
we then decided to get some tickets to go on a ride or 2 with bea. if you wanted to accompany a toddler on a ride you had to get your own ticket which i thought was kind of stupid so we only went on the carousel and the tilt-o-whirl but it was still fun.

this is the closest i could get her to smiling. she was just SOOO HOTTTT! she really was a champ. and she kept saying "neigh! neigh!"

if you can believe it, it was hotter inside that thing than outside. but she got a real kick out of  it! i'm glad bradley took so many pictures because i couldn't see her face while we were on the ride!

she looks pretty chill but i'm telling you guys, she was THRILLED. i mean it.

we walked around for a bit in between to check out the booths and stuff but seriously it was just so hot we were DYING! there was literally no shade except for that circus tent and a craft beer tasting tent (so, no.)

the universe must have sensed i was really missing philly this week! it brought me a rita's!

when we just couldn't take the heat anymore we decided to take the lonnnnnnng, hot walk back home. luckily, we passed the splash pad on the way. i wanted bea to get wet so she would cool down, she was so hot and sweaty it was kind of breaking my heart. so i picked her up and ran under one of the spouts with her (IT FELT SO NICE!) but she hated it and freaked out, as per usual at the splash pad, but i wasn't about to give up on such a hot day. so we just kind of sat there and watched her until she finally decided to get wet (which is a big deal for her, she NEVER likes to get wet at the splash pad). she ended up getting nice and soaked, and played in the water for quite a while.

mostly i got pics from behind because THOSE LITTLE BUNS, AMIRIGHT?! she actually let me do her hair today!

we had to drag her away, and she whined the whole way home. luckily though, there was no meltdown of mass proportions. which surprised me, even though it shouldn't have. bea is really great about not having epic, public meltdowns. maybe she is just still too young for them but even on days like today where we skip a nap, she keeps it together. the only meltdown bea usually has is at breakfast when she can see her bread before i put it in the toaster and freaks out because she wants toast NOW or when she sees me making oatmeal because, you know, NOW. i'm sure if i just fed her before she was absolutely starving in the morning she wouldn't do that. or maybe she would. i don't know. but that's really the only part of the day she ever freaks out. the rest of the time she is really easy going, which i always take for granted and really shouldn't. i don't realize how great she is on outings until i see other kids her age and realize she's the only one keeping her cool for the most part. meltdowns may come later or they might not, who knows. maybe they just aren't our thing to deal with. maybe our thing will just be the bully issue (seriously that girl is so dang bossy! we are working on this).
anyway, we finally got home, got her in the bath, got showers ourselves (so. much. sweat.), had a late lunch, and then enjoyed an epic thunderstorm that BARELY missed us from the comfort of our own air conditioned home.
would i go to the oyster festival again? i don't know. probably not, to be honest. it was 13 bucks a head (we didn't have to pay for bea because she is under 2, but we would have to next time), and then rides were like 2.50 a head minimum (standard, but when you're already paying to get in, it just seemed like a lot), and there just really wasn't much to do. maybe if you're more into craft beers, wine tastings, oysters, and maritime things it would be for you, but i am not into any of those things so it just wasn't the event for us i guess. but we still had an ok time. it beat hanging around the house for another whole day! and it got bea hot enough to finally play in some water! so it was all in all a success. even if i got the world's WEIRDEST tshirt tan. i was wearing a white and navy striped v neck shirt. #zebratan
being a parent really is great. watching bea have fun is seriously so much more fun than doing something fun for myself. i'm so excited for the stage she's in and that she's learning to do so many more things, i love watching her grow.