Spring Break 2013!! Woohoo!! Well, okay, it's not that kind of Spring Break anymore. Ensley and I started out Spring Break by making a trip to her doctor in Charleston for the hemangioma and we got to see Uncle Ryan and Aunt AJ, too! And eat all of the amazing food that Charleston has to offer. The good news from the doctor was that the hemangioma was gone! Yes, gone! The medication broke it up. She still has some capillaries on the surface, which is why the skin is still a little discolored, but the mass is gone! So, we are wiening her off of the medication and then we will do a few more laser treatments to take care of the capillaries. Our goal is still by age 2 1/2 that she will never even know it was there. We are very pleased with the results and that the medication not only stopped it from growing but broke up the mass.
Ensley and I got back from Charleston on a Tuesday and we were off on our Spring Break adventure on Wednesday...First stop, the Clearwater Aquarium to see Winter the Dolphin (the dolpin without a tale who stars in the movie with Harry Connick, Jr., A Dolphin Tale). Caden was excited to see her and ride on the pontoon boat, but other than that...not a whole lot to the Clearwater Aquarium. We went back to the hotel that night and got up the next morning for stop #2...
Stop #2, Busch Gardens. Caden loved all of the animals and the skyride. Ensley was so good the whole time, she even got to ride on the skyride!
Love this picture...
On a side note, the last show we saw at Busch Gardens was this ice skating acrobatic show. We were in about the fifth row, so we were pretty close. Well, Ensley loved it...maybe a little too much! She was standing on my lap, smiling from ear to ear...and screaming at the top of her lungs at the performers. Screaming so loud, that she and I left the performance :) as to not disturb the rest of the audience :).
We got up Friday morning and headed over to Orlando for Stop #3, SeaWorld! We ended up visiting SeaWorld twice (once on Friday afternoon and then all day Saturday).
Ensley was enamored by the dolphin show...
The best thing for Ensley and I at Sea World was by far the infant house...SeaWorld has a little house that is air conditioned with rocking chairs, sinks, microwaves, a nursing room, a changing room, and restrooms for families with infants. Thanks, Sea World, that was awesome!
Family pic...so mommy got in at least one...Mommy's friend, Terri joined us one day. Unfortunately, we didn't get any pics with her, but at least she took one of us. :)
We fed sharks, sea lions, had lots of soft serve ice cream, and ate dinner by the sharks! Excuse the quality of the photo, but I could not find a setting that worked really well with the tank glass...
Caden with his loot! After daddy bought him the HUGE Shamu, he was singing a song about it..."I got Shamu, oohh ooohhh, I got Shamu, oohh ooohhh".
Then, Sunday, on the way home, we made a last minute decision to make a stop #4 so that we could extend our spring break a little longer. Stop #4...Gatorland. By far, Caden's favorite place...Who would have thought this beat out SeaWorld and Busch Gardens. Heck, if we knew this was the favorite, we could have saved a lot of money! Just kidding...
