Calton Corner: Tot School in Florida - 19 Months

This week's alphabet box focused on the letter 'F'. It was excellent timing because we spent the week on vacation in Florida! This Tot School post is actually just a post about our trip! I did take some 'F' items with us, so Brennan could be exposed to the letter. His 'F' box contained:

Leapfrog 'F' magnet
Baby Einstein 'Ff' book
Go Fish card game
frog toy
fox stuffed animal
The Foot Book
F is for Fish
Fun With Numbers

We arrived in Pompano Beach, Florida last Sunday. My parents, sister, and brother-in-law had arrived the day before. We checked into our super nice 4-bedroom suite. My parents are timeshare owners and treated us to this vacation! Not only did we stay for free, my mom was super generous in other ways too. The first night at dinner, we each drew an envelope with someone's name in it. During the week we had to buy a gift for that person. Included in the envelope was $20 to use on the gift! At that same dinner, my mom gave each couple a $100 Visa gift card to spend on ourselves with the directions, "Buy something you wouldn't normally spend your own money on." We spent ours on clothes for Brennan, which in our defense we usually don't buy him many clothes, so I think we still followed her directions. Later in the week my mom put $50 towards jet ski rentals for the guys. I know you're reading this mom, so thank you so very much for this vacation!

Check out Brennan's loot!

We had a wonderful trip! Brennan was a super traveler. He loved everyone even though he sees my family so infrequently. I think Skyping with my sister and looking at lots of pictures helped him recognize everyone. He was great about letting anyone hold him. Anyone could put him to bed or down for nap and anyone could get him up when he woke. He really was so easy going and that made the week that much better.

Our resort had an amazing pool (it actually had three). We swam at least once a day and Brennan LOVED it. He has always loved the water. The pool had fountains that he really liked, but his favorite was the water slide. He was too little to go down it, but loved watching others (especially Momma) go down. When the slide was turned off, he loved to sit at the bottom of it and let us toss a ball up the slide. It would roll back down and he'd catch it. We did this MANY times!

Our resort wasn't on the beach, but we did go to the beach twice. Brennan loved the ocean too! He liked being held out in the water and didn't mind waves splashing him at all. He also like walking in the sand. We even got to have fun watching Dada jet ski too!

We didn't even have to leave the room to have fun though. He loved snuggles with Momma and Dada. And really loved playing peak-a-boo with people behind the couch! Nightly bathtime was always a hit, but I didn't get any pictures of him there.

On Saturday, we had to say goodbye to my parents, sister, and brother-in-law. They were headed back to Kentucky. But not before we took our annual family vacation pictures the night before.

Since Kyle, Brennan, and I had Saturday to ourselves, we decided to drive to Miami and go to Jungle Island. It's basically a zoo, but has a ton of birds you can touch and feed and even squirrel monkeys walking around this one area right within reach. Brennan really liked the petting farm! There are a ton of pictures here because my family hasn't seen these yet.