One last birthday hurrah

This post has been in the making for almost 2 months now. For Julia and Alex's birthday we had decided that we would take them to an indoor waterpark a little north of Boston. Our first attempt at this adventure took place at the beginning of February. It was a failure. We arrived at the waterpark when they opened to find out that tickets for that day had already been sold out. The kids were unhappy but good sports and we made the most of the day anyway, going to the Boston Children's Museum instead.

The next attempt was a few weeks ago. We were ready to go, had tickets ahead of time, and had everything packed the night before only to wake up at midnight to Julia throwing up... which continued for the next 8 hours. Followed by the rest of us getting sick. We felt awful about it - at one point Julia was sitting on the couch with a bucket on her lap and said to me "but Mom, I really want to go to the waterpark - they have bathrooms there too" - but this one was out of our hands.

Our third attempt was this past Saturday and I can now safely say that it was a success! We all had a great time possibly made a little better because the kids had no idea until they woke up on Saturday morning that we were going (we weren't risking a third disappointment!). We ended up spending almost 7 hours straight in the water. According to Grandma Laurie, Julia was a lot more adventurous than she had been the last time she was there - going down lots of slides by herself and just going off and playing in the water without Andrew or Grandma or I firmly in hand. Andrew and I both got to go down the big slides with Alex (who loves the dark one so you can't see what's happening). And Benjamin had a great time splashing around in the kiddie areas.

Julia goofing off as we were trying to take pictures 

The three kids playing together! 

 Water baby Benj!

Julia under the waterfall

Yup, I think they had fun!