Birthday Celebrations Begin

Julia turns TWO on Wednesday!!!  I can’t believe it!  We decided to start the celebration a little early and last Friday headed to Massanutten Ski Resort for the weekend.  While Massanutten is a ski resort we went for a different reason – the indoor waterpark!  Julia loves water and swimming and we thought this would be right up her alley… we were right!

We began the weekend with a visit to the Children’s Museum in Harrisonburg, VA.  Here Julia got to milk a cow:

 

Ride a horse:

and sell some ice cream:

From there we headed to the resort and had a quiet night in the condo.  Julia settled in well and apparently milking the cow made her want more milk than usual:

Saturday morning we made out way to the waterpark and spent the day swimming and splashing.

The place was pretty neat and there were a few kiddie areas where Julia could splash, go down slides, and bounce in swings

But what she liked the most was going in the BIG pool.  She made that desire very clear by frequently repeating “BIG pool, BIG pool, BIG pool” along with accompanying hand gestures as seen here:

So we spent plenty of time in the BIG pool too!

Dinner Saturday night was at one of restaurants at the resort.  We think that Julia enjoyed the dinner (we know she enjoyed the ice cream - see my previous post) but apparently she was a little tired of spending time with mom and dad.  This was our table and you’ll notice someone is missing….

She decided to eat here instead:

At least none of the waitresses tripped over her!

The swimming fun continued when we got back to room because we had an enormous tub in our bathroom.  In fact, Julia called it the “pool” all weekend.  So of course, we couldn’t pass up the chance to take a tubby!

We ended the weekend with one last swim at one of the regular pools.  Julia had a great time jumping in and swimming with Dad:

All in all it was a wet and wonderful weekend.  And we still have cupcakes and more celebrating to look forward to on Wednesday!