Wet and Wild!

The weather has been so hot, and summer storms have been popping up almost daily, so last week we decided to embrace the wet :o)
On Wednesday, Sophie and I went to the water park at Fort Jackson again. She LOVES playing in the water, just as long as it doesn't spray her face. She still will not go through the splash park area, but she doesn't hesitate to jump into a 3 ft deep pool into my arms. She squealed when she realized she was now tall enough to tip toe through the 2.5 foot section of the pool all by herself, and kept her chin up and her mouth closed while she hopped on her toes for an hour. We rode in the lazy river twice, and we avoided all the "waterfalls" so our faces wouldn't get wet. She made friends everywhere, as usual, and she sang silly songs the whole time. Her favorite new song is "Somebody that I used to know," but she only likes to sing "the girl part."



On Friday, we drove up to Carowinds to spend the day with my friends Sherrie, Amy, and Amy's baby, Aiden. It was Sophie's first time at Carowinds, but when she saw the carousel, she was in heaven. There weren't many people there, so she picked a horse named Summer and we got to ride twice without getting off. She made sure to ask me all the names of the other horses in sight so we could "say hey to our friends." Next she decided she would ride the rockets all by herself. She was "a little nervous," but she held on tight as the went around and around, and up and down. She didn't make a sound or even laugh, but she swears she liked it. No round two on this ride, though. :o)

 Once she saw the Snoopy train, it was all over. we rode it 3 times in a row as she sang every "Dinosaur Train" song she knew until Sherrie and Amy arrived. "Aunt Sherrie" rode with Sophie on the carousel two more times, (on a pink horse named Penelope this time,) and then the boats and cars, and then we headed for lunch and the water park area. I had been to Boomerang Bay before, but had never really paid attention to the amazing kids area. There were playgrounds IN the pool! Soph was running to the water before I could even change her into her teeny green bikini.

A storm popped up and cut our day a little short, but we ran to the car and she racked out before we even got out of the parking lot. :o)

In keeping with our wet week, yesterday we were treated to a day on the lake in Big Mack's new boat! We drove to Santee and spent 6 hours on Lake Marion on the new boat, playing, swimming, and dancing. Sophie LOVED it! She liked "driving the boat, floating, and 'tee tee'ing in the water," she says. Haha. It's the simple things in life. :o)

Her new obsession is anything space related. She can tell you all 8 planets and describe a few of them, from volcanoes to craters to ice storms. I'm not sure where this all started, but she now says she wants to be an astronaut and "go see Mars, but not touch it. It's too hot." Looks like it's time to visit a planetarium, if I can find one nearby!

See ya real soon! ☼