Florida- Part III!

Our final day in Florida started of a little chillier, so we spent some time relaxing in our room before heading out for the day. 

Gracie continues to grab and chew on everything she can find!

We attempted to do some pictures out on the balcony. Mommy and Gracie first-

Then Mommy with both the girls. Love Bella's tongue sticking out, stinker!

Daddy with the girls- again, Bella has just a lovely expression.

We attempted another family picture, but as you can see, that did not fare well. Grace was much too busy staring at the crazy faces her sister was making. Oh well!

Once it warmed up, Bella and Mommy headed down to the beach again while Daddy stayed in the room with sleeping Grace.

Beautiful blue skies. :)

Grace and Daddy came down after she woke up!

And we all enjoyed a little family time on the beach. Thankfully we were able to keep Grace out of the sand so she didn't eat it. :)

It was a little bright for missy; she had a continual squint on her face!

Bella and Mommy did some big jumps and throws in the pool.

Practicing her reach and pull in prep for swimming lessons!

Outside of the pool that day, there was a guy who was doing balloon hats. Bella is sporting her kitty hat here. :) She then snuggled on the bed to watch Dora and promptly conked out! We didn't have her take naps the other days, but she was very tired by the last day.

That night, we just relaxed in the room and packed up since we had to leave early the next morning. Bella "helped" with packing- aka wearing my shoes and taking everything out of the suitcases. She was packing up a bag for her kitty Chester if I recall. :)

Gracie. :)
We had a wonderful few days spent down in Florida! It was so nice to be with our girls and enjoy some sun and swim time. Both the girls were soooo good the entire time as well, which definitely made it easy. Our only mishap happened the night before we came home. Bella threw up a couple times in the night (bleck, only her 2nd time of throwing up!) so it was a rough night with that. We think it was something she ate though as I was sick a little the next day. We were definitely quite exhausted after not sleeping much that night, but we made it home without any further problems. And Bella even fell asleep on the plane since she was so tired! But it was still a great vacation!

Florida- Part II!

We had beautiful weather again on Friday- low 80s the entire time we were there, not too bad! :)

Daddy and Gracie before heading out in the morning. 

We walked down to the park by the pier again so Bella could play before heading out on a boat ride. 

Note a little friend traveled with her this time- she of course wanted to pick out a dolphin as her souvenir from the aquarium. I think she named it Pinky due to its pink color- so creative! 

Gracie was full of big smiles while at the park! 

Love those big eyes. :) 

And love her pigtails! 

We then went on the boat "Little Toot" to go on a dolphin excursion! 

A nice lady sitting next to ask volunteered to take our picture- our one family picture of the whole vacation! Grace was staring at Bella's hair, but it's still cute. :) 

Such beautiful green and blue water! 

Daddy got nap duty for Gracie, who enjoyed a nice nap almost the entire ride. He unfortunately didn't get the close up view then of the....

dolphins! We saw lots of dolphins while out on the ride. Bella loved it, especially when they were jumping in and out of the water. 

I didn't get any good pictures because I was holding Bella so she could see- and it is definitely impossible to take a picture while holding a little girl. But she got to see them, so that was the main thing! 

Afterwards, we ate lunch at a restaurant by the Marina. Bella loved all our eating out because she go to have fries at pretty much every meal. :) We then headed back to our hotel for Grace to take an actual long nap! 

Bella and Mommy headed down to the pool when Grace was sleeping. Here she is displaying her wide variety of faces- Mad....

Surprised....

Cheesy....

Excited? 

And normal. :) 

Bella is still very much a little water rat. She spent lots and lots of time swimming, jumping, and splashing around! 

Bella enjoyed seeing all the seagulls on the beach- I think she was a little scared here that they were going to fly right by her head! 

After swim time, we headed down to the beach to go make sand castles. Bella made a pit stop to creative a sand angel- pretty clever! 

Not sure if she realized she would then be covered entirely in sand however. :) 

Heading down to the ocean to collect some seashells! 

However, Daddy had to later collect actual ones for us to take home as Bella dumped all the shells we picked up into her sand creations. :) 

She decided to chase some seagulls as well! Definitely never caught any! 

I loved watching her play in the sand as she was very much in her own little world of creative play. I think she built a kitty house, food for the seagulls to eat, among various other crazy ideas! 

A few flowers may have been plucked from around our hotel. :) 

Our little Gracie- so nice to have a baby that actually sits in her stroller without freaking out! 

The views of the sunset were also amazing, even though it was often cloud covered. 

Rather than eat out at night, Derek often went to get food at a restaurant and brought it back to our room to eat there. Much easier for Bella to eat and Grace to have freedom in moving around! Bella especially loved eating on the bed. :)  

Smily. :) 

Giving some big sister hugs!