The Dells!! :) or :(

We live pretty close to the Dells so when one of my friends was going to be there for a couple days, we decided to meet them and introduce Blake to the world of water parks. Turns out Blake isn't interested in experiencing the world of water parks. In his defense, we really haven't taken him swimming yet, so this was his first experience and it was more than overwhelming. I didn't think about the loud music, noise from water rides, fountains in the kiddie area, etc. It was pretty hard to just find calm water that was really shallow. Also, in retrospect, I don't think he was feeling very good, so it made me feel really bad that we kept trying to get him to try it.

Poor Blake wasn't happy even before we entered the park and this picture was before he touched any water!

About to go try out the kiddie area :)

Just before he went down for bed in my friend's suite, he could hardly eat his pizza he was so tired and almost feel asleep on the couch. We laid him in their bed and when we went to pick him up, he was sooo warm. He was really warm the next day too, so poor baby probably had a fever or something. I don't think he overheated at the dells, since we got there about 2:30 pm and only stayed until around 5, but who knows, he might have. Also, I kept a hat on him and he was damp most of the time.

Anyways, what I thought was going to be an awesome experience for him turned into a flop, but it was still fun to go.

What I haven't mentioned is that while we were saying our goodbye's and had double checked to make sure that we had everything, we were about to walk out the door when Sophie, Jenny & Jaime's little girl, whispered to her Dad and said, "Aren't they going to take Blake?" Not sure when we would have figured out that we were missing our little boy who was sleeping soundly in the other room, but I'm pretty sure it would have been when we got to the car :) We sure did get a good laugh out of it, esp since it was an 8 year old (?) who pointed it out!! haha

The forgotten child.

Poor Blakey

We have now purchased a baby pool for our back yard as a better introduction to the water. We definitely want him to enjoy it!!

On another note, not sure why, but Scott doesn't seem to learn that if he leaves a glass of water on the table, it WILL be tampered with. So, he either finds floaties in his water, an empty or missing glass from being drank or spilled, or other items. This particular morning as he sat down for breakfast, it was something from the "other item" category that he found in his glass. He got such a kick out of it, that he had to take a picture.

He also continues to ask questions like, "Why is there salt in my glass?"
My response?   "Why do you think?" :)