The Mann's-Party of Five: Kiddos gone wild!

Wooooo! Spring break! Last week was Spring Break. It's so funny how much spring break for me has changed since I've grown up and had kids. I have fond memories of my springs breaks from college. My junior year my friend Sara and I took the train from Ball State in Muncie, IN up to New York City and my senior year me and 5 other girls drove down to Miami's port and went for a week long cruise. Ah good times! So now, 10 years later (holy cow, 10 years???!!!!), this week was spring break and it seemed like the entire city closed up shop and went on vacation. Brady didn't have school for the week, he didn't have a soccer game over the weekend, Grayson didn't have Little Gym and I didn't have my Thursday night meeting for my upcoming retreat. So, I said, heck, let's do it up right, let's do Spring break! Tim still had to work of course, so I planned a different fun activity here in San Antonio for me and the boys to do each day of the week. We started off the week by going to see a play at the Magik Children's theater. We saw "If you give a Pig a Party" by Laura Numeroff. The boys loved it! It was about 45 minutes long and they stayed captivated the entire time. We will definitely be going back! I forgot my camera though, so no pictures from that. Our next outing was to Sea World on Wednesday. Big mistake! Everyone took spring break and went to Sea World! We've been so spoiled with our seasons passes and have been able to go quite a bit in the off season when it is very empty. They just built a new section called the Bay of Play that features the Sesame Street gang and lots of fun rides for the little kids and fun things for the kids to climb. There was also a water park, but we'll try that out another day. So, we just took it slow and did a lot of playing and dolphin watching. It was a great day!

I always want to take the boys picture here, but no one will ever let me. There's always people waiting to pose in front of Shamu and it's such a production to get the boys to both smile at the same time. So, since I was by myself I did it! I should put the series of pictures here-it is quite the gag reel. This is the last picture. Brady put his arm around Grayson and I got a nice smiling pose then came this one-the head lock! Haha!

Not so sure why he is doing this lately, but it is his latest thing to show his tummy to you. Maybe he new it was spring break and he wanted to get crazy! Grayson gone wild! And you gotta love the crooked hat! What a goof!

Picnic lunch with my boys.

This is Brady climbing on the nets at the Bay of Play. I am standing below him in the tot spot with Grayson.

Hey look, there's brother!

Grayson playing in the tot spot.

Brady running down the giant net mountain.

This was a net tunnel that led over to another net. These were like 20 feet off the ground. Brady got half way through and turned around because he was scared. Maybe next time.