Puerto Rico

Once again, we had a blast in Puerto Rico - 9 days of fun in the sun. It truly was a relaxing vacation, spending most days at the pool or the beach, the guys went golfing 3 times, Andrea twice, and one day Kristin, Andrea, Dan, and I took an adventure to go zip-lining. It was super fun and ended up being 4 hours of zip lining. There were 8 lines and one additional where you lay on your stomach and zip about a mile across the mountains. Andrea was a little worried about that one, but other than the take off it was awesome! We arrived a little late and missed out on the handing out of the water, which meant we almost lost Kristin waiting for the last zip line. She was wheezing a little from the hike up and then got super pale. There was a good amount of climbing involved and Kristin was feeling a little dehydrated (add in the sympathy pains from the hurting Grandma in our group). I have no shame and asked the couple behind us if Kristin could have some water and that did the trick. Good thing, because I'm not sure how she would have made it across the line.

Claire seemed the perfect age to enjoy the trip. She is still skeptical about the ocean and the waves, but at least she didn't scream when her toes touched the sand. Jenna on the other hand wanted nothing to do with the sand touching her feet or putting her toes in the water. It took her a little while the get warmed up to the idea of swimming in the pool, but she got it by the end of our trip. Claire kept getting braver and braver in the pool. We started with her Puddle Jumper vest and then she decided she didn't want anything on. Although she can't swim totally on her own, she is very very close. We asked someone at the pool to borrow their swimmies to see how she would do with just those and she was off swimming on her own and jumping off the side. She lost interest in those as soon as I bought her a pair and was back to trying to swim with no swimmies at all. I'll take a bet that she is swimming on her own 2 weeks into summer camp!

Jenna enjoyed her vacation, walks with Pipere every morning, and naps by the pool. She wasn't exactly herself while we were down there, had a slight fever on the way down and took a couple days to clear that up. I kept saying she must have been teething pretty badly and sure enough we picked her up from daycare on Friday and she had her two front teeth broken through the skin. She now has 3 teeth, which is so much earlier than Claire. Jenna also started cruising on the furniture while in Puerto Rico. I think it's time to slow things down a little - it's all going too fast.

I'll try to post pictures soon - we are still waiting on the proofs from the photographer we had come meet us at the beach. Should be interesting since Jenna was in absolutely no mood and it was super windy. Here's hoping she got some great shots - we had a blast working with her.