Meirowsky's Blog: Long Time Away!

Kevin and I's 5-year anniversary came this year and we decided to "get-away!" So we went somewhere warm! We took a cruise out of Florida to Grand Cayman where we took a Jeep excursion and toured the island and Cozumel where we shopped til we dropped. It was beautiful as you can see. We met some great people and neither one of us have ever ate so much yummy/gourmet food in all our life! The weather was perfect, the shows/comedians/acts were hilarious, and Kevin and I got to spend some wonderful quality ADULT time together. But it our first time away from Parker for such a long time (it was so hard!) He can drive you SO crazy, but you miss him like mad when he isn't driving you up the wall. Funny how that works. We left on a Friday morning, so we took him over the Grandma Chris's office to drop him off for the weekend. That was the first time he ever slept of out his own bed. Grandma said he was pretty sad the first night, calling for Mommy & Daddy (doesn't that break your heart?!?), but he did good after that. Or at least that is what she tells us. Sunday afternoon, Maus was delivered the bundle of energy. She took the week off from work to spend time with Parker. I bet it might have been easier for him over there since he is used to sleeping at Maus's house since we are living there while we build. He got to go bowling and go to the zoo that week. Hopefully he didn't torture the Grandmas that much while we were away.
OH BOY Kevin and I couldn't wait to get back to see our little man. We didn't get back to Wichita until about 10:00 Thursday night, but when we got to see Parker, the 12 hours in an airport made it all worth it. He couldn't give us enough hugs and kisses. He would go back and forth between us and he had a million things to tell us (even though we might have only understood 100 of the words). Parker kept telling us "Miss you Mommy" "Miss you Daddy." Those have to be the best words a parent can hear after being separated for a week from your baby! The biggest accomplishment that he couldn't wait to tell us was that he learned to use the potty chair!!!!! yea...no more diapers!!!
(Fast forward about a month; Parker is doing so well with potty training. He still doesn't have the pooping thing down; he tells us AFTER he does it. Darn it! But he will let us know before he pees even if we are out and about. Sometimes we are driving and he tells me from the backseat and I tell him to hold it and he does without a problem. Also, he doesn't have any accidents at night or during nap time. We did the diaper thing for about a week and I noticed that it was a waste of a diaper, so we started just wearing boxers to bed. No Accidents! YEA PARKER! So 2 1/2 years old and almost potty trained!!)

We met some wonderful people from all over the US; the deck day 2 was a very lively place!

We have been to Hell and back...haha! Pretty neat place. This place used to be underwater and the coral reef looks kinda like someone's version of hell.