Eli's First Day of 'School'

Eli started 'school' this week at Academie de Montessori in San Marco. Its been pretty smooth so far, only a few tears and whistful "I don't want to go to schools"... he went 1/2 days the first two days and 3/4 days the next two, leading up to full days (hopefully) starting next week.

Daddy and Dot took him to school on Tuesday, the first day. Here are a few pictures...

The Florida Aquarium!

We decided to visit the Florida Aquarium in Tampa before Eli started school... much fun was had by one and all!

Eli enjoyed all there was to see, but especially liked the water park.... he really wanted Uncle Charlie to see this picture of him on the shark's back (Uncle Charlie recently caught a shark while fishing offshore in his kayak):

The water canon was also a big hit (yes, that's Eli to the far right!) because you could shoot the dry adults with water!

Eli also enjoyed staying in the hotel and bouncing back and forth between hotel rooms. He was pretty elated to push buttons on the microwave, safe and open and close the mini fridge.