Island Time

Friday afternoon little kid walked up to me and said, "Amorrow I'm gonna go get our boat and go to da island. You wanna come?" We all thought that sounded pretty good, so we made it happen:

the sand bar we go to

This picture doesn't show it well because the zoom is awful on my little camera, but there were about 90000 pelicans swarming this one area off of the island. We drove by on our way out and it was like a carpet of fish, all jumping and squirming over the tops of the waves and being plucked up by birds. It was crazy. We also saw a ton of dolphins that day, playing in the wakes of boats and jumping through waves.

Big Kid prints.

It was an awesome day.

We have surprise out of town guests so we've decided to bust Big Kid out of school a little early and go do it all again today. Pretty nice way to spend a Monday!

Big Kid's Future

Big Kid: Do you know how many people are on Twitter?

Ashley: No, lots.

Big Kid: Forty fousand, dat's how many.

Ashley: How do you know that?

Big Kid: I been watchin' da video about it.

Ashley: Wow, that's interesting. 40,000 is a lot of people.

Big Kid: Yeah, but I'm only followin' six. I want to be followin' lots and lots of peoples and you dest won't let me. You have a whole big square of people you follow but I can't make my own square of people to follow.

Ashley: I'm sorry.

Big Kid: No, you're not. You won't eben let me watch da You Tube anymore.

Ashley: Aww, you're so abused. I'm such a bad mom, you should run away.

Big Kid: I'm neber leaving, eber. I'm just gonna wait until I'm a grown up and den I'm gonna stay here wif you forever, but you'll have to let me watch You Tube and follow who I want on Twitter because I'll be all growned up.

Ashley: So you're going to be a grown up who lives with his mom and watches You Tube all day?

Big Kid: Yep.

Ashley: Great. It's good to have goals.

Awwwwww, you guys

I'm at my hotel on South beach and Mr. Ashley went to get me a Coke so I thought I'd hop online and research dinner options...and you all have me sitting here in my hotel room crying.

Yeah, I'm a little drunk but I'm with it enough to realize how blessed I am to have all of "you" in my life. Seriously, the Closet has been life changing.

I've had an awesome day, which you'll hear all about later. Very glamorous. I'll be having drinks at the Delano tonight. Life is good. My 30s are going to rock. I haven't even cried about it yet (other than the crying over how great you all are), I'm really looking forward to it. I've learned a lot in the last ten years. I have all kinds of deep thoughts I want to get out now but Mr. Ashley is back and I'll probably be too sober to share them tomorrow. Whatever.

Happy birthday to all of the other 9/27ers and everyone have a good weekend in our honor.