Memorial Day weekend.  Total chaos.  The boys had the most fun ever.  There were kids to play with everywhere.  These photos are merely a snapshot of one or two moments.  Mostly life was so crazy making sure that all toddlers had lifejackets on and were accounted for at all times that the camera rarely made an appearance.  Sol was overwhelmed with playmates.  His first friends were Mathew and his older brother, Jake. Sol just decided to make things easy and call Jake, cousin Liam–  probably because he was blonde and about the same age as cousin Liam.  Also, like cousin Liam, Jake was extremely nice to Sol.  He helped him with his life jacket and let him play with the x-box thing.  Later Sol started refering to the brothers as, “my grandsons, Jake and Mathew”.  What?

The next day Sol’s friend Clemente and his baby brother showed up.  Sol decided to introduce him as “my friend Gabriel and his little brother Vincent.”  Nice!  Although they look tremendously similar, Gabriel still lives in Alaska.

Here are some photos of Sol’s maiden voyage circumnavigating the dock and the boats.  Mathew was right there with him showing him the ropes and demonstrating his expert jumping abilities.

Sid decided to practice driving the boat and blowing the horn during all the swimming and jumping practice.  Later he yelled his way into a jet ski ride with Mike.

Later Sol was back in the water but this time with Uncle Dave, also refered to as “Uncle Doug” on several occasions.  At least he got the “uncle” part right!  Uncle Dave and Aunt Lisa were a huge help with wrangling and entertaining the boys all weekend.  Cousin Ellie (the cocker spaniel), however,  was the most asked about relative on the long ride home.  Here is Sol convincing Uncle Dave to pull him around in the tube.

that”s his name.  not my fault.  linda calls him d2 but when sol says it it sounds more like t2.  he looks like an old plug when he’s just hanging around the barn but just look at him go.  quite a beaut!

Sol found this little guy in the kitchen.  He is only about the size of your thumbnail.  The boys loved hanging out with him and watching him hop.  Grandma had to suck it up and catch the little bugger.  I’m sure she loved the feel of him hopping around while she tried to carry him outside.  

We read the story about Geezer and the frog jumping contest in Bumper Tubbs tonight in honor of our little friend.