Vacation!

This summer, while Momma was off of work and home, we got to go on vacation!! We drove from our home in NY to Grandma & Dale's in North Carolina, then to Florida to see our great-grandma, great-aunts and great-uncles, and even some cousins we hadn't met! 

Our last time on the swings before vacation

Mommy was testing out to see if everything would fit in our roof-top cargo bag

"LET'S GO!"

 We slept in the car and Mommy drove when it was dark outside. We go to Grandma and Dale's early in the morning - just in time for breakfast!

"Grandma. Food goes here!"

Grandma feeding Dylan

Grandma sharing cousin Isaac's old favorite toy with Dylan

GRANDMA HAS A STEP!

GRANDMA AND DALES! YIPEEE

Josephine and Grandma cuddling

Telling secrets

Putting grandma to work

Josephine sharing her pickle with Momma. Momma bit it.
Josephine was sad after that.

Dylan didn't share his pickle.

"I will climb this step!"

Dale playing with Dylan. What you can't see/hear is Dylan cracking up

Josephine & Grandma

Grandma and Josephine, showing Dylan how to share

"hehehe my new favorite rattle!"

Josephine: "I did nothing!"
Meanwhile, Dylan is behind the car seat that once was sitting upright.

A tree frog on the glass door to the backyard

Tree frog

After having a BLAST with Grandma and Dale for a few days, we got back in the car and drove to Florida. Florida is far! We drove some while it was light out - it rained - and some while it was dark out - we slept while Mommy drove that part. When it was light and raining, Momma let us watch SO MANY movies! We got to watch Elmo! ELMO! He's so funny. We stopped at a restaurant called Ruby Tuesdays and got to sit in the high chairs and the nice waitress made us special avocado mashed up for dinner! It was so super yummy. We got to Florida very early in the morning. We were good and slept in our car seats until it was time for breakfast. 

Great-Aunt Marcia had us over for dinner one night

Great-Uncle Bob showing Dylan how to use a Mac

Mommy and Momma got us this cool, colorful play-yard that we got to sit in at Grandma's. We had so much fun! We brought some of our favorite toys from home and we even got more while we were here!

Our play-yard rental

HI!

 We had too much fun.

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 We were invited back over to Great-Aunt Marcia & Uncle Bob's place for something super cool. Cooler than cool, even. SWIMMING!

Dylan LOVES Gator
Gator would bark in Dylan's face and Dylan would laugh and laugh and laugh

Josephine & Great Grandma

Josephine petting Gator

Dylan petting Gator

Dylan holding Great-Aunt Marcia's cup 

Great-Grandma and wiggly Dylan

Then, Mommy and Momma brought us somewhere else that was new! We went to Ted & Maxine's for dinner. They were so super nice. They have a doggie. Dylan chased the doggie.

Dylan, in Ted's lap, trying to wiggle to the food on the table

 When Great-Uncle Paul came to visit, we had to climb ALL over him. He was a lot of fun!

We put Great-Uncle Paul to work!

Playing with Josephine

Climbing!

Great-Grandma's cat, Greycliff

 Of course, we like to eat so we went to Publix. Mommy and Momma bought lots of food and we got to pick out which car we drove!

LOOK AT ALL THOSE CARTS!

Fruits and veggies!

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BEEP BEEP

"Hey Dylan, do you think they'll notice if we drive away?"

 Back at Great-Grandma's....

Hi!

Hello!

 Then we went to our cousin Sandy's house. She had a pool, but it was raining so we couldn't go swimming.

Josephine & Sandy

Dylan crawling around Sandy's place

 After our snack...

"I found the bag..."

"... where they keep the food!"

"GOT IT!"

 Great-Aunt Marcia's friend Anna had us over for dinner. She took out toys that her kids played with when they were little and we had SO much fun.

Playing at our friend Anna's place

She let us play with, and eat, this toy!

Our cousin Andrew was so cool. He played with us and made faces. He's silly.

Josephine & Cousin Andrew

Dylan & Cousin Andrew

Anna & Dylan

Anna & Josephine

Cousin Andrew & Dylan

We went and surprised Great-Uncle Paul at his office! 

Josephine & Paul

 Back at Great-Grandma's...

Dylan playing with the play-yard toys

Cousin Danielle and Josephine

The last night we spent with Great-grandma we went to the Cheesecake Factory.

"Cheesecake Factory and all I get is BREAD?!"

"At least its yummy!"

Mommy packed up the car, and Momma got us all ready to go. We were excited to see where we were going next! What a fun road trip!

Target? Really? 

"Wait. We have to go HOME?!"

Thankfully, we stopped off part of the way home to see Grandma & Dale again! We went to Ruby Tuesdays. The nice waitress said we could have ANYTHING we wanted off the salad bar. We got zucchini.

YUM

Nibble nibble

Hi Grandma & Dale!

All of us posed for a picture

 Then we got back on the road after eating our meal...

There was a storm, and right after it was a huge rainbow!

Mommy unloaded the car and Momma put it all neatly in the front hallway.
That's a lot of stuff to unpack.

We needed a bath after the long car ride home.

All clean

All clean

Tea anyone?

 

"Hello from NY!"

Dylan can pull to a stand and cruise

Playing with the new table toy

Josephine, pulling her brother down to the ground