my little sunshine

sweet. innocent. happy.

that's all folks - vacation part V

Ok, enough fun. I'm tired.....take me home!! That big yawn was just taken just before we walked out the door from the shore house after a very fun week.

The video I took that morning was very long and full of lots of cute moments, with Sylvia showing off her new fifth teeth and her knowledge of body parts, but I had to cut it down to the highlight reel for this site. The first song has been a favorite of Sylvia's from Tumbling Tots and we use it often to entertain her in the car. From the video, I would say it entertains adults as well :) And the second song is probably Sylvia's favorite. She listens to it on her bed-time CD each night.

And so, without further ado, here are a few songs for the road....

Farewell Beach; Hello Elmo! - Vacation Part IV

Sylvia came down to the beach with Daddy and Grammy after her nap, and promptly started strutting her stuff for the paparazzi. She has developed a recent obsession for hats, which works out well because she has about 10. Several of her outfits came with cute little matching hats and Grammy Donna made her a few others. So...she just happened to have a matching hat for each of her bathing suits and didn't seem to mind wearing them at all. Baby Fashionista!

Our last day at the beach (sniff, sniff) was as sunny and beautiful as each of the other days had been, and Sylvia kept herself busy with the sand and all of those buckets.
We finished off our last night with a walk on the boardwalk and Mack and Manco pizza (yum!) and when I saw a little girl with an Elmo balloon, I had to ask her mom where she got it and find one for Sylvie. We couldn't get the little manageable size. Ah, no. Only the humungo jumbo size for our little girl. It caused a lot of problems, because if she held on to it, we couldn't see to push the stroller. Oh well; she will love it when we get home and use if for decoration in her room. Gotta love Elmo :)

Sylvia's highlight of the night, and maybe of the whole week, was a ride on the carousel. I was sitting behind her, so I wasn't sure if she was happy, scared, or ambivalent. Just as the ride ended and I pulled her off the horse, she started screaming "Neigh, neigh! Neigh, neigh!". I realized she had become very attached to her horse, and she continued screaming as we bought another ticket, waited in line again, until she got on her new horse. She was thrilled for two more minutes until the ride ended again. She kissed her horsey good-bye (twice, plus an extra kiss for a horse that we walked past), and we attempted to fix the screams with the above mentioned Elmo with limited success.

I can't help but think that next year she may have a new level of awareness and be afraid of the horses. And maybe the year after that the carousel ride will be the boring place to be. This year, in that moment, she wanted nothing more than to ride around in circles on her magical horse and she screamed at the top of her lungs to make sure everyone knew how much those moments meant to her. I wish she could keep a piece of that magic forever.

And....a grand finale of ice cream (of course). We're definitely going to miss this place.