Ahhhhhh vacation. Worth every red cent if you ask me. We're at the same place we stayed at 2 years ago except that they have made some very nice renovations, including finishing off the basement into an in-law apt (living room, kitchen, bedroom, 3/4 bath) and expanding the main bathroom into something much larger than a broom closet, complete with washer and dryer. Oh, and the master bedroom has a king-sized bed now, a must for someone more than 6 months pregnant and her oak tree of a husband.
The other bedroom upstairs has a set of bunks and a full size bed, with very little other space once all that furniture is in there. We had to move stuff around a bit to fit Jocelyn's pack'n'play. The boys started out in the bunkbeds but Morgan had a little trouble remembering not to pound on the bottom of Timothy's mattress, so Morgan moved to the full size. That's when he figured out that he could crawl from there into Jocelyn's bed, and so he managed to wake her up several times. Longer story short, it took a few nights to get the sleeping situation to be an all-night kind of thing, but we seem to have it under control now. (knock on wood).
I'm not totally sure why they limit occupancy here to 8 people since it seems like you could fit more than that (the living room on the main floor has a pull out sofa, and the living room downstairs has a regular sofa and a cot in the closet), but that's ok.
Timothy still thinks we're roughing it though - the volume buttons on the remote don't work so he has to keep touching the actual television to change the volume (a skill I had to teach him, it was pretty funny actually) and he still doesn't quite understand the difference between highspeed and dial-up and why our wireless laptops can't be wireless here.
Were having such a fantastic time though - and the most incredible weather! (knock on wood again!). We drove up Saturday, stopping in Leominster to meet the new Roberge (so cute!). The traffic getting up here was just ridiculous - took us 3.5 hours to get from Leominster to South Portland, where we stopped to see Grammy Lessard for only about 20 minutes since we were running late at that point. We left South Portland around 3:30 and got to Krainin around 4 to pick up the keys and backtrack about 6 miles to this cabin. We emptied the car and Josh ran out for groceries while I unpacked.
Mom and Dad arrived Monday afternoon and stayed until Thursday morning. We had a very nice visit. Lots of swimming and to Timothy's delight, some poker. Josh and I got to leave the cabin sans kids on Monday night, which was very fun! We drove up to Naples and got specialty coffees and sat outside to enjoy them. On Wednesday mom and I ran out and did a little shopping. Even though it's ridiculously over-priced, we love The Cry of the Loon. And when I say over-priced, I mean we saw a lizard that had no particular purpose for $400. It's fun to look around though.
We also went to My Kid's Closet - a kid's consignment store - where I found some boots and snowpants for Jocelyn. They are super ugly but for something that she's only going to wear 3 times, it hardly matters. And at $5 for two together, the price was right! We also stopped at a t-shirt stand where Grandma bought everyone Maine t-shirts - we're such tourists! The ones for the boys were the cutest I think - they have a little dumptruck type thing on them and say "I Dig Maine".
On Thursday I managed to finish the book that I've been reading to write a review for an actuarial magazine. Super dull, I was proud of myself for getting through it. Now I just have to figure out how to write a book review.
Jocelyn has picked up a few new words since we've been here. She says OW when she pretends to fall down and yesterday when I finished brushing my teeth she told me Good Job! She also says BYE regularly - complete with waving. So between those and her already regular words of hi, daddy, and uh-oh, I think she only has to pick up 6 or 7 more words in the next week and a half before her doctor's appt to be almost age appropriate. She appears to be saying UP when she wants to be picked up, so I think that one is about to break through, and she has something that sounds like thank-you as well.
Yesterday was a red-letter day for Timothy. I bribed him with poker-playing to get him to use the noodles to float without his feet or hands touching the ground and he actually did it! In fact, once he did it, he played around with the noodles for quite some time and seemed very proud of himself. He was still only about thigh-deep, but we'll work on that part.
Jocelyn pretty much hated the water at first but has now dared to go about ankle deep where she can sit and splash herself. She ends up with about 2 Ibs of sand in her swim diaper, so that requires a strip down and washing before we go inside, something she's not particularly fond of but the screams have turned to cries instead, so that's progress.
Morgan, as usual, is generally up to his eyeballs and you have to pry him from the water. He drinks a better part of the lake each time we're in it, but I've given up on trying to stop him. He wears his sponge bob arm floats without complaining, so at least I can spot him. He's gotten too heavy for me to swing around in the water - and when I tried it that first day my belly told me to cut it out.
Grammy Lessard came for dinner yesterday and we had a nice visit with her. Jocelyn almost sort of gave her a hug goodbye - the boys were a little more accommodating. Grammie Whitten and Maurice will come for lunch on Monday, a tradition we look forward to, and then that will be it for socializing for us.
Last night we taught Jocelyn ring-around-the-rosie. At first she thought we were all nuts, but once she saw us do it she became a big fan and we did quite a few rounds· enough to wear me out (getting up and down isn't as easy as it used to be!). Then we did I'm a little teapot (Morgan looks cute doing the teapot - he tips the wrong way though).
Nothing on the agenda for the weekend. Josh went out for groceries again yesterday so that we don't have to fight the weekend crowds. I've only washed my hair once since we've been here (ewwwwww) so maybe I'll work up the motivation to shower.
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