The best vacation!

The best vacation!

As the summer approached Paul and I threw ideas out as to what we wanted to do for vacation. There are a few things that keep us from being able to throw caution to the wind and just go crazy for our vacation this year. First Paul has a job that doesn't really allow for a long multiple week vacations so his time off is usually spent having multiple smaller vacations throughout the summer, secondly I am 7 months pregnant so my "fun time" is limited to what I can do comfortably, and thirdly because we are so close to having the second baby Paul has to save some of his vacation time to extend his "paternity leave" to stay home for a few weeks after the baby is born.

So we racked our brains and decided that since it is hard to do some things with Jacob because of his age that there was really no purpose in spending hundreds of dollars on a beach trip or even a vacation where a hotel was involved. We researched the area around our house and luckily since we live to close to D.C. and Baltimore we have a lot of options.

We ended up going to a toddler waterpark (sorry I forgot my camera...DUH!!!) but Jacob LOVED spending a few hours there. We took a few of the cousins and spent time in the lazy river, toddler water slides, and fountains and spill buckets! It was great for me because I could just sit in 1-2 feet of water and play with Jacob and even relax on a tube and float along the lazy river! Jacob of course started really having fun right when we needed to leave so he threw a small tantrum but was pretty tired so eventually was coaxed back to the car.

The next day we went to the petting zoo and Jacob got his first ride on a pony/horse! He was of course hesitant at first but as you can see ended up having fun and spent the whole ride saying "YEE HAW" which got a few chuckles from the other parents waiting in line!




The last two days of Paul's four day weekend was spent just hanging around the house and relaxing. Paul's vacation is almost over but another short one is being planned for the end of July so in a few weeks we will have another relaxing few days before the days of sleepless nights and little newborns return!