Down on the bayou?

I pulled out the harmonica tonight just for fun and Izzi was instantly smitten. She started to play it and finally got the hang of it after a while. She started to play a deep slow riff and I asked her if her new song was called, "Down on the Bayou"?

She said, "No, it's called 'Clean Your Feet, And Take a Shower'. Ha ha. Point taken, Iz.

My Friend Ariel

Mom-Mom SuSu snapped this photo when we were in Florida a few weeks ago. How perfect that Iz and Ariel are mirroring each other...

Overheard in the WWOI

I'm still working right now (5:20pm) and Ed is in the kitchen making dinner. Isabelle is playing princess in her room. I just overheard Ed say...

"No, Iz, we talked about this. I'm just not comfortable with you putting a leash on yourself."

I better get in there....

Mermaids of Weeki Wachee

We just got home from a fabulous vacation in Tampa, visiting Mom-Mom SuSu and Pop-Pop Bill. We had great weather every day except for one. We were able to go out on Aunt Joann and Uncle Ron's boat, to a sandbar in the Gulf of Mexico, just outside of the Cotee River near New Port Ritchie. We saw fireworks in Safety Harbor for the 4th. We got a hotel room in St. Pete Beach for 2 nights and found an authentic Maryland Seafood restaurant at the beach! And we swam, swam, swam every day we were there. I think Isabelle averaged 6 hours per day in the water.

The one rainy day we had was Friday, and boy did it downpour! They got 3-5 inches of rain on Friday depending on where you were on the gulf coast. This was the day we had planned to go to Weeki Wachee anyway, so it wasn't so bad. The live mermaid shows of Weeki Wachee are indoors. They have a huge park there, most of which was closed due to the weather, but we enjoyed 3 shows in the indoor theatre and Isabelle was in heaven.

One of the current shows is "The Little Mermaid" which was really great, even if their Ariel didn't have red hair (of course Iz picked up on that immediately). Weeki Wachee is the only live mermaid shows in the country, so if you're ever in the Tampa area, check them out, it's pretty wild!