Weekend fun

This weekend we ended up having a full schedule, but lots of fun! Saturday morning Joe ran the Hospital Hill half marathon. He's been training for a couple of months now, and did really well, meeting both of his goals - an under 2 hour half marathon, and beating Scotty B! Scotty is really fast and has been hard at work all year training for a variety of races, but mainly triathlons.

After returning home to relax and shower, Scotty and Tricia came over for a yummy lunch of Oklahoma Joe's BBQ. Joe took the rest of the afternoon off, while watching Joseph, so I could run some errands to look for things in preparation for our trip later this week. Then we had our neighbor Carmen's birthday party. Joseph wasn't really in a great mood when it was time to head over there, but some bubbles fixed everything, along with another party-goer, 10 month old Layla. He had fun playing with Layla for a bit, and also exploring Carmen's back yard, until it was bedtime. Joe took him home, gave him his bath, put him down, and returned to the party with the baby monitor. Apparently Joseph really wasn't ready to go to sleep, as he stayed awake for a solid additional hour, reading and playing quietly with his mobile!

We drank a few too many margaritas and luckily managed to stumble back across the street and home to sleep a few hours later. Scotty and Tricia had invited us to go on their family's boat on Sunday, and while it took some serious work to get the group up and ready, we managed to get on the road only 30 minutes later than anticipated.

Of course, since we were moving late, we arrived at the lake right about the time Joseph normally goes down for a nap. We figured we would just let thing play out, and if we had to come back to the dock, we would. Instead of being tired and fussy, the little man happily donned his life jacket, swim hat, tether and took in the sights.

 He had so much fun! Well, we all did, actually. He couldn't get enough of the boat going fast, and was happy to fling his arms into the air and laugh loudly.

We spent some time letting Joe and Ben (our friends Ben and Kristin also came along) practice their water skiing, and then headed over to the favorite swimming hole. Joseph had enjoyed sticking his feet in the water from the side of the boat, so we went ahead and carefully lowered him into the water. As long as I was in the water nearby or holding him, he seemed to really enjoy the experience! He had lots of fun splashing around and kicking, and particularly enjoyed Joe blowing bubbles at him and when I would spin us quickly in circles.

After a while of just hanging out in the lake, we all climbed back aboard and enjoyed some lunch. While we tried to get Joseph to eat (and changed his clothes), he refused because pretending to drive the boat was way more fun!

He was quite content to just sit in the driver's seat and hang out, until the seats started getting too hot (It was almost 100 degrees today, and not a cloud in the sky!)

By this time it was almost 3pm, so we opted to head back as a few of us weren't feeling great and Joseph was finally starting to show signs of being WAAAY past his naptime. We were only in the car for about 5 minutes before he finally passed out and slept all the way home.

We all had a great time and are so happy that Joseph really seemed to like being on the boat. I know he's going to love a whole week being on the sailboat, playing in the water and with everyone! Oh, and on the way to the lake, he finally learned how to sign mom! Hooray! Not that he really needs to, since that's still the only word he says with any regularity, but it's still fun.