My son has always been a thinker, thinking things through one step ahead and drawing some unpredictable conclusions. The following conversation took place last week between my son and his Daddy. Son: Dad, I really want to go fishing. Dad: Oh, that does sound like fun. The bummer though is that it’s not fishing season so we can’t go fishing. Son: Why is it not fishing season? Dad: Well, if we fished all the time we would run out of fish to fish.

Today was a big day in the life of sibling relations at the circus. Around my daughter’s third birthday, my strong willed, independent, knows what she wants toddler, morphed into a “whatever big brother does, that’s what I want too” little sister (she still kept her strong will however). Her favorite color went from purple to red (her brother’s fav color). For the past week she has been telling me how she wants a Spiderman cake just like her brothers when it is her birthday.

Apparently my daughter’s week long rebellion was against sleeping alone in her crib and not on sleeping in general. Tuesday was a break through day for us! She napped and slept through the night without screaming for hours first. As I said goodnight to her in her sister’s bed, she had the BIGGEST grin on her face. Seriously, I have never seen a kid so excited about sleeping in a bed.

Two cookies  One mug of milk   And two sisters Visit 5M4M and Angie’s 7 Ring Circus for more Picture Fun!

Since we first brought my youngest home from the hospital at two days old, she has been a good sleeper. You could just lay her down and walk away and she would soothe herself to sleep. Scott and I commented a few months ago that we haven’t had to go in the middle of the night to help soothe her back to sleep. Even when she threw up in her crib in the middle of the night, she just rolled back over and went to sleep.

My son is obsessed with all things Spiderman. I remember when he was about 2 and he saw a picture of Spiderman on something in the grocery store. He asked me what that was and I told him Spiderman. I remember he giggled saying that was so silly, to have a spider man. Sometime since then, he got bit by the spidey bug! I love this picture…the smile on his face was worth all the effort it took to make that cake!

Sorry to leave you all hanging with my sarcastic tribute to San Antonio…I’ve spend the last 24 hours prepping for and then hosting my son’s 5th birthday…(How did he end up being 5 already)? But, I’ll save that for another post… one involving sinister villains, and superheroes…be sure to come back next week for that one! I do want to clarify, that even though we did spend 4 hours in the urgent care facility, we did have a great time in San Antonio.

After 4 days of camping at both Guadalupe and Big Bend NP, the next big destination on our trip was to San Antonio. We were quite excited about showers, and more room to spread out. After checking into our hotel at noon, we were off to see the sights. Where to first? The Alamo? The Children’s Museum? The River walk? So many choices… We thought what better place to go to really experience the city than the urgent care clinic.

The sun’s rays cast a bright orange glow on the rocks when it rose in the morning. As the day went on, the bees came out to pollinate the flora. As the day progressed, we were able to pose for the very significant sign shot. Click here to learn of it’s high importance. As the sun began to set the rocks began to change color yet again.

I’m trying my best to summarize our almost 2 week vacation, so as to keep you up to date with our circus adventures, without boring you with every.single.picture we took (if you knew how many pics we took, you would realize this is NO.SMALL.FEAT). I realized today though that I haven’t really posted any pictures of the actual parks yet. Hmmm…perhaps I should do something about that. So, any guesses on which national park this is from?