Alligators, Park, Swimming, etc...

So last week was completely nuts for us.  It was probably one of the most roller coaster type of weeks I've ever had going up and down and up and down and up. 

One of those highs and lows was about where we are moving too.  We found a rental house that we loved.  Signed lease papers put down our deposit and everything.  Got a call that we couldn't move there because an HOA restriction in the community that the realtor and the home owners where not aware of.  No more than 18 rental homes in the community, we'd be number 19.  I can't imagine how frustrated the homeowners must be!  Anyways the rental company had another house in the same area but different neighborhood that is bigger and has a fenced in back yard and screened in porch.  It was over our price range though.  However they brought down the price for us since what had happened to us with the other house!  So now we are moving to a bigger house with a fenced yard so we are excited about that one!  That craziness ended up so that's good!

 Anyways after a week like last week it was great to have a day like today!

Today we went to our favorite park to take Tony.  Then we went on a trail that just opened up, it's been under construction since we've moved here and I've been waiting for it too open!  I have been wanting to spot some alligators!  Well we saw 4 total and it wasn't like at a zoo where they are all laying around, they were swimming and moving.  Also saw birds and lot's of pretty tropical forest.  I also got ice-cream at these ice-cream places they have all over FL that look like a giant ice-cream cone.  Anyways I used to go to one when we'd visit my Grandma when I was little and I have been wanting to go so I got an ice-cream.  After ice-cream we went out for burgers, yum, we got Tony McDonalds though to take to the restaurant since they don't have chicken nuggets at 5guys.  We got home and I told Isaac "I just want to chill and relax in a pool"  and he said "I don't mind let's go".  I guess I forgot that we can actually do that because it's hot and our apartment has a pool.  I'm just not used to being able to swim in April.  So we went for a swim.  It was cold at first but felt great when your moving.  It was nice to be weightless and get some of this extra baby weight I've been lugging around feel weight free!  I got to swim some laps and Tony did great!  He was kicking so good.  He even moved (with his floaty) all by himself with kicking.  I even got him to move his arms too!  He did not want to get out.  Isaac let me relax on one of those nice reclining pool chairs while he and Tony played a bit longer.  Came back and took a nice shower.  Then relaxed because everyone was exhausted, even Tony!  We actually wore Tony out, that does not happen like ever lol!  He went to bed great!  Here are some picture's I took of today ( :

Tony always claims a stick, anytime we are outside and runs around using it like a gun.

Looking at the Alligator

He really liked seeing the gators

Too small to see but there were 3 gators in the photo

The tropical forest

Totally in my element, I love this type of outdoors!

In a cool tree Isaac found!

More gator spotting

Pointing at the gators

I stopped taking pictures and Tony got upset, he wanted me
to take pictures of the gator's.   He took this picture, the gator is really
small but he got it in there lol

Water Colors in the Tub

So I got this idea off pinterest to let your kids watercolor in the bathtub.  Decided to give it a try today.  Tony really liked it and had fun!  However I recommend using a diaper lol.  I had took his diaper off because we just finished dishes and it was soaked with dishwater, I didn't want to put a new one on only to get paint on it and then change it again so I just left it off.  He peed like 3x lol I had to clean it up so he wouldn't paint in it, which he did manage to do once.  I cleaned the brush before he put it back in the paint though.

Thinking about what to paint next!

oops, he pee'd in the paint! Don't worry I cleaned it.

Being creative and painting holding the brush in his mouth.

Photo Collage

I had some Christmas money that my parents gave me for Christmas.  I had been saving it trying to decide what I wanted to use it for.  I had been wanting to hang photo's for a long time but that wasn't exactly on in the "needs" category of spending so I haven't done it.  So I decided to use it too make the photo collage I have been creating in my brain!  I finally finished it.  I bought lot's of random frames from thrift store, I wanted all different textures and sizes.  It took countless layers of paint, particularly with the yellow.  And It was hard to choose which pictures to print.  I wanted to get high quality prints as well or else it would bother me every time I looked at them, so I did research on what company to print from.  They turned out great!  Exactly how I calibrated it on my computer for printing.  That cost a little more than cheaper prints so I used some awesome orange fabric to fill in the other frames, and later I can add photo's in there too!  I love how it turned out so much!

Now all I need to do is hang them!  That part sounds difficult lol.  However we may be moving soon so I will wait till I know if we are moving or not till I decide to hang them up.  It would be pointless to hang up only to have to take down and patch up holes in the wall a month later. 

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