The best weekend ever!!?

Thought I better get this post done. I had meant to do it Sunday, then Monday........then.......well, the week got away from me as usual. Last weekend we had the best weekend. If you don't want to hear a mom shamelessly brag about her family, then this post is not for you!! I warned you. ;)

The Friday before Memorial Day weekend Doug got off work early and came home with a golf cart (Golf carts are VERY common at campgrounds that have seasonal sites.). I have been against this idea all along (I think we need the exercise. Plus, now I have a 4 year old that whines when I suggest we walk anywhere.). Carly absolutely LOVES it. She happily rides along in the woods, "singing" away the whole time (usually smiling too).
Carly was outside the camper way more than she was inside the camper this weekend. This is a huge deal. She usually doesn't like to be outside/away from her camper for very long. She also led me over to the slide to help her go down. This too is unusal. Usually when we are near a slide I make her go down once with her protesting the whole time. After I helped her up, she sat at the top for awhile and eventually pushed herself down the slide.

We also went to the pool. Carly LOVES the pool. In fact, it gets difficult to even walk by the pool because she wants to go in it so bad. She is now standing up in the pool on her own (with floaties on her arms). I didn't have to hold her the whole time. A couple of times she was even floating. When it was time to get out, she did really well too (this can be an unpleasant event).

On Saturday during the afternoon, they had a kids craft up at the Lodge. The kids were able to make a Father's Day gift. I brought Alex (Crafts usually just aren't Sissy's kind of thing.) up to do the craft and Sandy and gang wanted to know if I wanted to bring things back to the camper so that Carly could do it too. Since she had been doing so great, I decided that I would bring her to the Lodge. She did super!! The kids made a t-shirt. The front says: This Dad deserves a pat on the back. The picture below shows the back. They also got to make a card and they placed a coupon for a free waffle for Dad in the card. Super cute!! Thanks Sandy and all!

Saturday night me and Carly went up to the Lodge to get icecream. We had a sundae and ate it sitting up at the counter. She sat so nicely. The gang at Springvale treats us like family. Where else can you go where the person who gets your icecream will also reach over with a napkin and get a bit of fudge off your sweet girl's face? Thanks Kels. We finished our icecream and even sat for a little bit at the counter.

On Sunday, Doug went home early to enjoy some quiet time on Father's Day. Me and the kids stayed for a little while longer. We went back to the Lodge for icecream. Carly was a little upset when we were up there so I told Alex that we would take the icecream back to our camper and eat it. On the way out of the Lodge I suggested that we sit on the bench (just outside the door) and eat our icecream. So we did!! Carly sat still the whole time and we shared an icecream sandwich. So sweet!!

For those of you who don't know Carly well, these are all MAJOR things in her/our life. I am soooo proud of her. A HUGE thank you to Sara (Carly's para) and all at Parker. Your hard work and dedication is paying off!! Alex also had a fabulous weekend. He was very well behaved and I am super, duper proud of him too.

Hugs to all.