just one super cute kid

First glimpse of DriftWood Beach on Jekyll

Griffin and Erika the seaturtles

Here's Griffin: got an update on his recovery which is happening at a slow rate. The black patches are a type of velcro where they attach divers weights to him to retrain him to sink him to the bottom-since one of his problems is floating.

This is Erika she weighs 207 lbs-she's bigger then Griffin and has the same problem: floating but for different reasons, here she gets her block of ice with fish in it and video of it to come!

Jekyll Island

This weekend

So we are headed to Jekyll Island for the weekend: Dogs are in the kennel, we are packed and when John gets home from work; we start the 3 hr journey south: We spent a day here a couple of sundays ago and spent another sunday checking out another beach close by so we feel like we've got the lay of the land and know exactly what we are gonna do. It's still high 70's to low 80's during the day so we should be fine for playing on the beach and my personal highlight going to see the seaturtles.

www.georgiaseaturtlecenter.org

www.jekyllisland.com

Can't wait to see the babies actually the babies are diamondback terps rescued...there are alot hit on the roads and when females are hit and die they take out the babies and save them-it's such a great story....

Above pics: Griffin and baby diamondback terrapins

It's been a while since I've gotten a chance to blog. I feel like my life is topsy turvy right now and I'm learning that just because it gets crazy it doesn't mean life can be put on hold: so Twyla is now 11 pounds and 3 oz (a big deal because 40 days ago she stopped gaining weight) and Evan is as much of a terrible two as possible but learning so much and making us be the best set of parents we can be. The dogs are actually doing really well. We get a chain link fence in on thursday which will help me alot when I can't walk them. Georgia is more of a challenge then we anticipated but we are making the most of the things that we can and went to the beach on sunday (only 2 and a half hour drive) and we loved it and loved the drive --to Savannah it's just such a neat area. The people here are really nice--I mean really nice-everyone will stop to talk to you and I really like that, everybody is just genuine and warm. We miss Europe more then I thought we would but I AM LOVING SONIC yay for there drinks! Rasberry sweet ice tea has been yelled into the sonic drivethru more then I will admit

Evan gets a Bobby Car

the start to the Diddlina room for Twyla

Well I hope I've got a great start to a girlie Diddlina Room--I can't wait to start decorating when we get to Georgia. I was thinking today that this is the perfect theme....it unique since it's German, it's got a lot of pink and purple, girlie, a ballet theme, a cute animal, and a story line with friends--I never thought I'd have something like Winnie the Pooh was for Evan--LOVE IT

Our drummer today....

Sometimes, bedtime can wait

Tonight, Evan went to bed pretty late, I wanted to show him one of my favorite movies of all time: Disney's Lion King--and he loved it- since we have a book with the characters in it, he named alot of them and it was so cute to watch him completely engrossed into this movie-I don't think his eyes even blinked But the best part came at bedtime after "twinkle twinkle little star" I started to back out of the room and said good night big boy-I love you and he replied, "I wub you too mommy" and that's why it was worth the late bed time. I just melted.

"not tired,no nap"

yea right, does this look like a two year old who isn't tired--mommy says it's naptime

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star by Evan

My mom and dad tell me the story: that when I was little-all I did was sing and sing in the bathtub so I guess like mother like son.......