Monday, May 2, 2011

Catchin' up...again

I know I said awhile ago that I was going to try to be better with keeping things up to date on the blog. Obviously, I've failed miserably. However, I finally got a bunch of pictures off the camera so here we go with one more try.
In March, we took a little family vacation to Ocean Shores. Now, I know you're probably thinking that we had completely lost our minds visiting the coast in March, and trust me, the weather that weekend was terrible and we weren't able to get out to the beach to let Jacob run around. However, the beach has never been the reason we make a yearly trip to Ocean Shores.
Nope, that honor falls to the food, or more specifically to the dessert, at a little Irish pub called Galloway Bay. They have the most amazing caramel whiskey sauce ever which they happen to serve over a yummy bread pudding. According to Ian, dessert alone is worth a drive to Ocean Shores and back. While the food is amazing, I tend to like a weekend away too.
Anyway, with the weather being awful, Jacob got to spend a good amount of time with Daddy in the hotel pool. He absolutely loves the water, though he still won't let us turn him over onto his back. By the time the weekend was over, he was getting pretty good at dog-paddling and kicking. Of course, his favorite game was to get out of the pool, walk around with me to the deep end, and "jump" to Daddy. We tried hard to teach him to actually jump, but he stubbornly refused. Apparently, he prefers to sit down at the ladder and wait for Ian to throw him up in the air before splashing him down into the water. Maybe, we'll have better luck this summer.