La Cantera and Sea World

Brent had a conference for work April 24-28 at La Cantera in San Antonio. We attend this conference every year and it was nice that it was so close this year. We packed up the car with lots and lots of stuff and headed down to San Antonio. We are very fortunate that Brent's parents were also there as it made it much easier with the kids. We had a great room location and all our rooms connected with a large patio looking over the pool. Every night we had a dinner or event to attend and I was a little nervous about who could watch the kids. We were very lucky that Jill's sister, Lauren, lives close to La Cantera and recommended a great babysitter who watched the kids every night. She was fantastic and the kids loved her.

The pools were great and the boys loved going down the water slide. Brooke also had her first pool experience and loved it. She kept crawling into the water from the zero depth entry. She was definitely a handful. The resort also had a kid area with 2 wet bounce houses, 2 dry bounce houses, balls, hula hoops, basketball, etc. The boys enjoyed all of it.

On Sunday, we took the boys to Sea World and left Brooke with Grand. The weather was perfect and it wasn't very crowded. We had a great time watching the Cannery Row Caper show and of course the Shamu show. The big hit were all the water rides and Shamu express (a little roller coaster). We started out with Texas Splashdown (aka the Log Ride), and then Rio Loco (aka Roaring Rapids). We did the Rio Loco a couple of times. We were always excited to see who would get drenched by the water fall. The first time it was Brent and Blake and the second time was Mom and Blake. There was one last water ride, Journey to Atlantis, but it was definitely a bigger ride with a really big drop. The boys had gotten a little cocky and we walked by to see if they wanted to ride it. They did, and it was an adventure. Blake was scared at the beginning and Ben was fine. Then in the middle of the ride, Blake was happy and Ben was scared to death. They both endured but said they didn't want to ride that ride again!

We had a great trip and made many fun memories!

I realized that I didn't take as many pictures as I thought, but here is what I got.

Brooke's first road trip

Swimming

Sweet Dreams

Bounce House Fun

Sea World

Shamu Express

Two Thumbs Up
Rio Loco

Dipping Dots
Worn out...Bye Bye Sea World

Pityriasis Rosea

Ben had what I thought were a few bad mosquito bites. He had one big one on his arm, and then had a few on his face. Well these mosquito bites would not go away and then they began to multiply and started showing up on his back and more on his face. So I took him into the doctor and it even threw the nurse practitioner for a loop. She first said she thought it was pityriasis but that it didn't look like the typical case. She called in a doctor to look at him and they determined it was definitely pityriasis. Basically, it's a bad rash that can last typically for 4-8 weeks and supposedly "harmless". Based on how he looked, "harmless" was not what you were thinking. Thankfully his teacher's son had gotten it before, so she was completely aware of it and not worried. He looked horrible and I started to panic about our trip to San Antonio. I quickly went out and bought a swim shirt and some gentle sunscreen. It lasted for about 6 weeks. Hopefully we will not see pityriasis again at the Baldwin house!


What they call the "mother herald" that was the first one

Ben Loses the Training Wheels

Ben started riding his bike without training wheels. His first time was a few weeks before, but these were the first pictures I took. He first started on his little bike and then moved on to his big bike. I have received a lot of grief about his bike he got for his birthday. It is pretty large and a little too big for him. I thought if it still had training wheels, it was definitely the right size. At least he can grow into it.

A few basketball shots

Blake's Last Spring Soccer Game

I decided I would take some pictures of Blake's last 2010 spring soccer game. I was so happy I did. He was hilarious. He played really well and he also was hamming it up for the camera. Everyone on our sidelines was laughing at him. He kept waving and talking to everyone as I was taking the pictures.


Blake and his friend Liam

Not sure what is going on here

Liam scored...High five!

Wow, Blake, you had a great game!