Is it summer yet? Oh wait, yes it is. Conor says I “got myself into this” so not to complain. But I'm not really complaining. It's been busy – but anyone who knows me knows I find things to keep me busy. Yes, just like my mom does. I'm working a summer program at NASA that is great! There's no complaining there. Trevor's in daycare to keep his schedule (he needs a schedule more than a penny on the ground needs to be picked up- again, if you know me, this is absoluetly necessary to pick up any coin and not be discrimatory towards the value of it. Money is money). Jack, however, is not in “daycare” this summer. He actually really wanted to go and talked about it way ahead of summer. But it was $5 less than what I pay for Trevor and couldn't bring myself to pay that all summer. So he is staying with me in the mornings and will be going to various places in the afternoons when I leave, like Nana's or Aunt Jessica's. Or course, he's already complaining about wanting to do things. I can't blame him much. We've been running errands and cleaning a lot. I've been promising to take him to Pirate's Bay and have yet to do so. I feel awful about that. But hopefully next week, it will work out. I think it was a sign to not buy a season pass to there like I had originally thought about since we haven't gone yet this summer. Needless to say, he was so excited about our trip to Hilton Head, SC for my sister-in-law's wedding that he was apparently counting down the hours at Nana's house until the plane took off. He didn't express his excitedness to me, but I knew he would have a blast. And he did. I hardly saw him the entire time we were there. He was either down the hall with whoever was in Stephie's room at the time, in Nanny's room with baby Stephanie, at the pool, at the beach, or geo caching and walking around the town. I'm still not sure what all he did, but I know it was way more than I did. I'm thankful for all you guys who hung out with him. He was in Heaven! So much so, that the day of the wedding, he didn't show up until about 20 minutes before we were scheduled to leave for the wedding. He finally walked in, soaking wet and sunburnt while I was in my dress ready to go. I haven't mentioned Trevor yet....

It was interesting. I have to say he was pretty well behaved, although certain folks (like our flight attendant on our second flight of the day and the waitress at the restaurant one morning) might be shocked at this statement. I can probably count the number of fits he had on my hands. Which is amazing. The flights were much better than I had imagined in my head for the entire week before we actually left. He requested to use the restroom on every plane we rode (4 total – one being the kind with the propellers...if you think a restroom on a regular plane is small, think again, and then laugh at the thought of me AND Trevor in it, trying to change his pull-up. Yes, it was finally accomplished.)! The highlights of the flight include the flight attendant pausing when she got to our row, after the seat belt sign came on to land, and I'm trying to strap him in. She asked if I needed help and assisted in holding him down while he screamed and squirmed because he didn't want to be strapped in. Together, he got strapped in. Next would be when the gentleman behind Conor asked how old Trevor was. When he replied, “Two,” and guy said, “Oh the terrible twos....” and probably thought to himself, “Thank goodness I'm not that guy in front of that kid.” (Who by the way, was obnoxious. Not only did he lean his seat back while I had my head down trying to get into my bag, he also put it back down after the flight attendant walked away after telling him to put it up – I didn't feel too sorry for him.). If that wasn't enough – on the way home, he was FULL of energy. He is still fascinated with firetrucks, police cars, trains and buses. So when we saw a bus, someone said, “Beep beep bus,” and he started saying that. After about the fourth time, he'd change it up to trick us and then laugh his head off about it (warning if you watch the video...it gets really loud when he laughs). His laughs are more like happy screams. But at least they are happy. He was this crazy the entire 30-40 minute ride home. Once home, he wanted to watch “Cars.” It took a while to get him calmed down and into bed. I feel sorry for the daycare teacher the next morning.

Of course, Jack always has crazy ideas that he comes up with. I think he has too much time to think. In the car yesterday, he asked me how many days were in a year. When I asked him why he needed to know, he replied, “I need to know how many clothes to pack.” Long pause.... “For what, Jack?” His reply, “So I can live with Nana and ride my bike to school next year. You would get to see me on the weekends, except for maybe during school hours (that is, if I'm in your class). “ Although I wanted to say, “Did you run that by Nana yet?” I'm at the point now where I just reply back, “Ok, Jack.”

He also was planning his birthday party for tomorrow all day yesterday, when Jessica and I had already planned a surprise party for him at the last minute, for Saturday. So the day of the surprise party, I listened to everything he had planned. He actually wrote it all out on about three sheets of paper...the invite list, the planning, and his birthday list. Pretty impressive. He had three scenes from Back to the Future planned. The living room was going to be the scene from the “Enchantment under the sea” scene, the dining room was Marty's house, and the driveway/street was the scene where Marty got hit by the car. We had already decided last week that it would be a lot of work to decorate the house like that, so we had decided no decorations. I reminded him of this hoping he'd still agree. I made him a cake that was supposed to look like the license plate from the DeLorean. It says “OUTATIME.” By the time we got to Jessica's, the decorative icing had all run together. It's the thought that counts, since we couldn't rent a real DeLorean for the party.

Needless to say, it's been an interesting month so far. Can't wait for July and beach trips!