OBX 2013

Well the time for our annual OBX trip has come and gone.  We went down with our good friends Frank and Nicole again. It was a great and relaxing (okay as relaxing as it could be with a 4 yr old and 1 yr) week. Our weather was perfect, only really raining the last day, but the sun was so hot! This year we left a bit earlier then usual, leaving at 4am. We were hoping to put the sleeping kids in the car, but both woke up as we buckled them in their carseat and stayed awake, luckily they took a nap around 6am!

The boys bright and early watching tv in the car

Around 9 am we stopped for breakfast in VA and then pushed onward to OBX. The ride was nice (and the kids were pretty easy to deal with, which was shocking because JP tortured us on our 2 hr ride to the Jersey shore the weekend before) with limited traffic till we hit the bridge to come into the Outer Banks. It took us about 30 mins to get over the bridge onto the island and then another 2 hours to go up the island to where were stay in Corolla.

We spend a good amount of time at the pool that our house had..which is usual protocol for us anymore. It's nice to have some "fun" close to home and it worked well this year with JP's nap schedule too. Aiden has become more and more

independent in the pool the last two years, so when JP was napping it was Mommy's free time!

Family pool picture

Mommy and her babies in the pool

My pool babies

My water rat

The Gang

JPG and Frank & Nicole

JP wasn't a fan of the float/boat  that we had  for him. We had bought it 3 years ago for Aiden, who did well with it back then, but my ever crazy/constantly moving boy Jonathan didn't like it. We did "force" him in everyday and he would last about no more then 15-30 mins.

Aiden circa 2010

Jonathan circa 2013

JP was not a fan of the big pool and was very lucky that his Daddy and Frank loved him enough to buy him a kiddie pool. He would play with the beach toys in it and have his own great time. It's also were we stuck Aiden when cleaning the big pool.

When we did hit up the beach it was blazing hot. The boys loved playing in the sand and digging with their shovels and toys. The heat didn't seem to both either of them nor did the sand. Mommy isn't a fan of the sand, but has learn to embrace it because of having kids.

Jonathan loved the ocean, which just seemed so crazy since he isn't a fan of the pool. He just wanted to run and jump in the water like all the other kids. It was actually a little hard for me to see all these kids running around the beach and splashing in the ocean and all JP could do is sit there or have me hold him since he didn't have shoes on. It really got to me at times, but I had to keep reminding myself that next year he'll be doing the same...and on his own two legs.

 Aiden is a little more apprehensive of the ocean, he's like his Mommy, a pool rat. He loved to play at the shoreline, but wouldn't go in much further then his ankles to jump and splash in the waves.

All in all it was a great week, a lot of fun had, and sorry it's already over. It's also time for us to start spending the next 4 weeks preparing for JP surgery so we can get him ready to splash in the ocean next year!