One week from today my baby starts first grade and will be at school all day everyday. I'm actually having a really hard time with it and am sad to see this new phase start for us as a family. I know he is going to love first grade, but the all day part is really hard for me. When I was pregnant with Baylor I was teaching first grade at his school and prayed for his little life all of the time and now he's ready to start first grade. Oh how time flies. I just hope that he knows how much I love him and how special he is. I hope he has enjoyed all of our days with each other as much as I have. While it's not always rosy and there are fights between brothers, arguments with mom, and meltdowns in general I have loved my days with Baylor. He is fun to be around and is always up for an adventure. I'm going to try not to cry one week from today because I know he is scared and a little uneasy about first grade, but knowing him he'll do great and love it from the get go. In celebration of school
starting Mimi took the boys to Build A Bear today and they both got a dog with a travel case. I think the case with the wheels was the biggest hit. I know this for sure that Baylor is going to miss all of our mall trips! He is a shopper and loves all of the stores, food court, and outings in general.
I really can't believe that time has flown by so quickly. Some days I look at Parker and think to when Baylor was that age and hope I cherished it enough. I hope I held him enough, loved on him enough and told him enough how much I love him. I'm just thankful he still likes to cuddle today and sit on my lap and lay with me at night.
Of course Parker is a total Mama's boy right now so I don't worry about getting enough loving from him!
Cooper is really going to be sad one week from today. They do fight but they sure do love each other too. He's going to be lost at first when he realizes Baylor is gone all day.
However Parker is getting more fun and likes to play too. The boys spent the night with Mimi last night so Parker and I were cleaning upstairs and packing. He couldn't decide if he wanted to clean or cook.
We won tickets to Holiday World at the food pantry dinner last year and needed to use them this season. We had never been and were excited to go. We have heard lots of good things about the park. The boys were excited to start exploring. We drove to Lake Monroe on Wednesday night and put our boat in the water and stayed at Four Winds and then drove to Holiday World Thursday morning. The only downfall of Holiday World for us is that it is far but breaking it up like we did helped out.
The park is broke up into different holidays and there were lots of rides that all of the boys could enjoy. Cooper liked drive the old cars.
Parker loved the rides.
Parker, Cooper, and Mommy watched Daddy and Baylor do the Liberty Launch. I was thankful I didn't have to go on it.
I think Daddy likes playing the games as much as the boys. We ended up with a big UK ball, a football, basketball, two penguins, two monkeys, a guinea pig, and two Smurfs. Fun times had by all. It was nice because they had games that the kids were guaranteed a prize.
He loved the Holidog coaster.
We watched a little show by the Holidazzlers, it was great entertainment!
The boys loved the canoes and went on them several times in a row. It was nice that it wasn't that crowded in the park and we didn't have to wait long for any ride.
He wanted blue.
I think this was by far his favorite ride.
The turkey twirl had fun turkeys to ride in.
Tom was determined to win. Baylor and Tom rode The Legend roller coaster after this and they said it was very extreme!
We had a great time at the water park and did the lazy river twice. It was hot and felt good to cool off.
The water park is huge and you could easily spend the whole day there.
He loved all of the slides. He wanted to go on all of the big ones too but there were long lines on them and it was too hard for me to watch the littles in the water area alone. It will be nice when everyone is tall enough for the big stuff.
He loved all of the water.
This area was just a small portion of the water park and was awesome. It was crowded though and made me nervous to watch all three boys. Thankfully they had on swim shirts so I could spot them easier. 
This little monkey is the one you have to watch like crazy because he has no fear of getting lost.
After the water park we headed to Rudolph's Play Land to ride a few more rides before we left for the day. Parker had so much fun.
How cute is the sleigh.
Our final ride of the day.
They loved the boats.
Of course we stopped by one more games and Daddy won the boys a Smurf. They were thrilled and said it was the best day ever!
