We had so much fun at the cottage!! Highlights included:
- Boat Rides on the Pontoon. Tay was NOT happy about wearing a life jacket but otherwise they loved it! We were able to distract him by letting him help drive the boat.
- Lots of swimming in the Lake - Both in clothes, in swimsuits and even some skinny dipping which both kids found hysterical. Avery loved playing in the inner tubes and swimming out deep. Avery and Debbie did lots of pretend games in the water - they created an enemy named Chompy and they had to keep finding ways to foil his plans. Avery also created a job and would pull us around in an inner tube. She told us she had the job for 5 weeks and it was because her parents had a computer job and never played with her so she had to work and she told us all about her training schedule and how hard the job was. Too funny! Tay loved walking around in the water and was brave enough to go up to his chest. He also liked bringing sand toys in and messing around very seriously with those. They really took to the lake!!
- Raspberry Picking - Tay just ate them off the bush the whole time. Debbie made a delicious pie from scratch with our pickings!! YUM!
- Marbles and Trucks - Tay LOVED playing with Marble Race Toy, the dollhouse and kept on making trains by lining up all of his trucks and trains. He was VERY into taking you by the hand and showing you how he wanted you to play with him. Everyone found it really sweet and cute and impossible to resist!
- Pretend Time for Avery - Avery loved playing school up in the little desk in the loft and also did some yoga outside one night after watching Aunt Debbie do hers. She was so funny doing this yoga on her "mat" and then spent about 30 minutes just making up songs and singing at the top of her lungs!
- Aunt/Niece Club - Avery formed the Aunt/Niece club with Debbie and Maddie. They got matching friendship bracelets to seal the deal.
- We also had lunch at Shorts Brewing Company (I was chasing Tay around for most of the meal...), had lots of ice cream and Do from NYC, bonfires and S'mores, and played at the bowling arcade - Tay LOVED the dinosaur shooting game that Eddie graciously played with him over and over and Avery was really into spinning wheel games to get tickets. Avery loved turning her tickets in for lots of plastic trinkets that are now mostly lost :). We also just had lots of fun hanging out together in the cottage - The kids played hard all day and crashed at night! It was such a fun 5 days and we miss everyone already. BUT, after 2 weeks away it is nice to be home :) Until next summer Northern MI! We love you!
Watching The Descendents - Avery's new obsession - Tay was entranced too!
Fancy Aunt Debbie Hair Do!
- Avery got her first bee/wasp bite - we are not sure which. But she was super brave and did not even cry. But she was really into talking about it afterwards. She was also terrified of getting a splinter and asked us about 10 times a day if any cuts on her feet were actually splinters. She needed every adult to examine it with a flashlight.
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