Texas Trip and Finally a Video from Easter

Last month, we all went out to Texas to visit Ryan's side of the family.  It was some fun times.  Bears had a grand time playing on the beach.  His favorite activities included: swimming in the big waves with Grandma and, later, Daddy, trying to sneak his cousins' beach toys, and dumping wet sand all over his uncle Randy.  I really feel like I blew it by not documenting that last one.

 Biscuits really enjoyed the beach as well.  His favorite things were splashing in the shallow water, playing with beach toys, and dipping his finger in the sand, then putting it in his mouth.  I loved how delicate he was with his sand tasting.

Biscuits was such a mellow gentleman on the trip.  I was surprised by how well he did.  He wasn't able to nap more than about 15 minutes on our travel days but managed to be happy nearly all the time.  Once we arrived and he had access to a crib whenever he got sleepy, he did great and slept really well.

Bears had a much harder time with sleep. He never really managed to get a good nap and we usually couldn't get him to go to bed before 11 at night.  So he was a bit...emotional on the trip but still managed to have a good time overall.

Bears insisted on wearing his full Captain America costume on the trip out to Texas.  It actually worked out really well for the airport as far as being able to keep an eye on him since we could not keep that wild cub from running around like crazy.

Ryan's parents threw Biscuits his first birthday party, complete with giant pinata and his own special dairy/soy free cake. I'm hoping that Ryan managed to get some pictures that I can update with later.

During the trip, Biscuits developed some amazing kissing skills.  Well.  You've really got to see for yourself:


And finally, here's a pretty epic video of our last easter.  It's taken me so long to post it because I had grand plans of editing it...which never came to fruition.  Well. Not yet, anyway. It could still happen but in the meantime, I figured I'd better get to posting it sometime before next easter.