The weeks following a big occasion always seem so laid back and insignificant. Following Tatum's birthday and our parents heading home, things were pretty quiet for us. Tatum had her one year checkup and was growing right on track. My birthday night consisted of Brian and I going out to Koizi Sushi which is an endless sushi and hibachi restaurant with the most amazing food!
New premium outlets opened on the far side of Tampa so we headed out there on St. Patrick's Day to spend some of my birthday money, mostly on Tatum as usual. I also had some giftcards leftover from Christmas for her for Carter's too, so we were able to start stocking up on some bigger sizes for her. So far we've relied mostly on hand-me-down's from Brian's brother and sister-in-law because their little girl Ella has the cutest clothes, but now I'm actually starting to buy more. Anytime I see a sale, I grab some clothes for her in larger sizes!
That weekend, we had some friends from Utah come into town so we met them at the beach for a bit. At the end of the month, we took Tatum to a Rays MLB game, her third since we've been in Florida. It was opening weekend and so much fun!
April is typically more eventful for us than it was this year. Usually we try to get tickets to General Conference for at least one session, but since we weren't in Utah this year, no GC. Lindy's birthday is also at the beginning of the month but instead of a family get together, we had to mail her present. We had some family in town visiting for a bit and went to the beach some with them.
The second weekend in April we used our third Disney day and went back to Magic Kingdom. Even though its hands down the busiest park, Magic Kingdom will always be my favorite park. There are SO many fun rides for Tatum that Brian and I don't have to split up as much to ride the big rides solo. Her favorites are Little Mermaid, the Carousel, Dumbo, It's A Small World, and Aladdin's Magic Carpets. She also gets really animated and dances to the music in the Pirates ride, one of my personal favorites! We did get fast passes for Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Space Mountain, and Little Mermaid for Tatum, but rode all the big rides. I felt like we planned so well for this and I used the heck out of the WDW app but we hit all the rides with minimal wait times and did it right! Disney is way more fun with kids of your own! I'm grateful for this time in our lives where we get to be close to fun things like this and have fun with Tatum!
For Easter, we attended church and then went to my grandma's house for dinner and to do a little Easter Egg hunt for Tatum. It was so funny to watch her run around and try to grab all the eggs, but she didn't want to put them in the basket. She was determined to hold them all most of the time, or at least as many as she could hold at once! I love getting to spend so much time with my grandma and let Tatum really get to know her. Gramma Rita is definitely one of her favorite people!!
Tatum likes to bring as much as she can into the bathroom and place it on the floor while I shower. I think she thinks its a race to see how much she can bring in until I'm done...
