Tracy and Jayna

We had a real busy first weekend of May!
The kids and I went up to Guerneville for one night for Liz's bachelorette weekend, on our way home we stopped and saw Tracy. Chad was out of town playing with Grisman in San Diego and I had told Liz that I would totally understand if she didn't want kids at her bachelorette weekend, but she said it was ok. We spent Friday night there, took our time coming home on Saturday and then Jasper had his 3rd birthday party on Sunday. Chad flew down to San Diego Friday, played a festival Saturday afternoon and flew back Sat night so he could be back for Jasper's bday party.

Jasper was super excited to up to Guerneville because I told him there would be a hot tub at the house we were renting. The first thing he did when we got there was say, "where's the hot tub?"
The bummer was that we were the first people of the season to rent this particular house and the hot tub was nasty dirty. We called but they didn't send someone out until the next morning, and we were only spending one night. Jasper and I got in the tub anyway, late morning but it was still pretty cold. The happy thing was that Jasper got to go in Tracy's hot tub instead!

The kids did great and I have to say that the last couple of months has been a real turning point for me.

Going out with both kids, even over night somewhere by myself doesn't feel like a big deal anymore. I think those first few months when Jayna was born and Jasper was potty trained were really stressful for me if we went out of the house. It seemed hard to try and hold Jayna (in the carrier) and get Jasper on a public restroom toilet, trying not to get him dirty, and trying not to get pee everywhere. I'm not sure what happened, but it now seems like no big deal, maybe I just got used to it!

I love this pictures of Tracy and Jayna, they look so happy! AND Jayna had nabbed Tracy's earring and stuck it in her mouth (yikes!!) and neither one of us saw it--you can see it in this picture.