Family Vacation

This summer, rather than taking off a full week and traveling somewhere, we decided to have Caleb use his vacation days to take off every Monday in June. And we are going to go on lots of little day trips over our long weekends. This first week we took Corbin to the aquarium down in Sandy. He ran from exhibit to exhibit pointing like crazy and yelling, "ish, ish, ish" nonstop.


He crawled back and forth through this tunnel for about 20 minutes straight.


Lately he really likes to "drive" so you can imagine his excitement when he saw a giant steering wheel.


He also thoroughly enjoyed lifting all of the flaps and pretending to read what it said inside.


And of course his all time favorite thing there was splashing in smelly fish water.


Most of the time the sting rays kept their distance from him, and his arms were too short to reach the bottom and pet them, but at one point, one swam up past him and brushed along his fingers, and boy did he think that was cool.

Afterwards we went to a park and had a picnic lunch with Bean.


Ever since I have been trying to get him to eat tuna fish sandwiches lately, he always opens his sandwiches to make sure they are peanut butter and jelly, and that Mom isn't trying to trick him. Which is annoyingly messy. You will also notice the pile of crust pieces building up in the corner of the picture, ya he refuses to eat those ones. He will eat the bread around them, but if a piece of crust accidentally gets in his mouth he pulls it out every time without fail.


Sliding with Dad.


Our son is starting to show some Monkish tendencies. He has to poke at everything he passes, and he has to pick up every piece of garbage he passes.


He basically cleaned up the whole playground area in the time that we were there. Including brushing the wood chips off of the slide and stairs where other kids had thrown them.