I am on a roll! You all should be proud!
Labor Day brought the ballathon again. Devin lives for the ballathon and it is his favorite weekend of the whole year. The ballaton starts Friday night at 6pm and games continue until Monday at noon. Games are played 24 hours a day. Devin has three teams (two mens and one co-ed) in the ballathon each year. I think this year he played nine games.
The Tuesday after Labor Day Tori started "school". Pekin High School has a toddler laboratory school which gives the students in the childcare classes hands-on experience. I had found out about it last year from a friend so I emailed the teacher in August and they had openings so I enrolled Tori. It ran for three weeks and was an hour and twenty minutes long. I had to stay on school property while she was in the room, but it gave me time to catch up on things like this blog :). The first two weeks Tori hated it. She would scream when Stacy or I would drop her off and would be sleeping when we went back to the room to pick her up. The last week Tori didn't cry when I left her at the room and she didn't want to leave when I go to pick her up. One day I had to chase her to get her to leave!
The Wednesday after Labor Day, Devin and I went to Puerto Rico for our friends wedding. It was a good time! Tori stayed with MeMaw and Grandpa and from the pictures I saw and what they have told me they all had a good time. When we got to Puerto Rico we found out that we couldn't use our phones, but that texting was unlimited so that is how we stayed in contact with them. We borrowed our friends phone one time to call home. Mike and Brittany were really good about posting pictures nightly on Facebook of Tori. Devin and I were very thankful for that! We loved getting back to the hotel room late at night and getting the iPad out to see what they had been up to all day!
This is the view across the bay of the Barcardi distillery. We did take the tour (mostly for something to do and the free drinks). We were unimpressed with it. It was mainly just videos, we didn't get to see any of the actual process happening.
This is the fort that the wedding was at. It was on a little peninsula and the wedding was actually on one of those cliffs on the right.
The guys in the wedding party as I was walking up!
Devin and I at the reception...I was incredibly sunburnt and he wasn't in the best mood after his long day, but after a few drinks we were both over things!
Over the course of the summer, we spent a lot of time at the park playing and also playing in the backyard on the play set that Granny Myers got Tori for her birthday.
First time swinging at the park!
Swinging with cousin Sofia.
Sooooo happy to swing!
Climbing on her play set.
Why do kids always want to climb UP the slide?
Soooo innocent looking.
You can see how much fun she was having!
Tori has completed two sessions of swim lessons and is currently enrolled in her third session. Devin and I take turns getting in the pool with her. One day when it was his turn I was able to take some pictures!
Jumping into the pool.
Swimming to her toy!
Yesterday, Tori really was enjoying her lessons! She was loving jumping into the pool and was moving her arms and her legs when Devin told her to! She even tried to blow bubbles a few times :)
Our house is slowly but surely getting done. The outside brick and stone is almost done and they have started on the tile floors inside. I am still hoping it will be done by Thanksgiving, but I am fearing that it won't be. (So I originally wrote this post about a month ago, and sadly enough the status of the house is the same...finishing up brick and working on tile. Looks like we will not be in by Thanksgiving...booooo).
Whew! That is what we have been up to!
Thanks for checking in!
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