Weekend review

Champs and I headed to Charleston on Saturday morning for a fun visit with my cousin, Catherine.  I had been looking so forward to our visit for weeks for two reasons: Cat hadn't seen Champs since his 1st bday AND b/c I hadn't seen her since she found out she has a little bundle on the way!!  She's due June 1 and I couldn't be more excited!!  After what seemed like a really long trip down with multiple stops for ice, gas, and finding paci & monk - we finally got there about 11:30.  We quickly unloaded my car and headed downtown for lunch.

We went to The Rarebit on Upper King and it was hoppin as usual.  It was after 20 minutes of waiting and getting to our table that I found out they didn't have highchairs, but we said oh well and hoped for the best!  Champs did pretty well, with a lot of help from Puffs, books, a grilled cheese and a funny Cat.

After lunch we walked back down King Street to our car and headed back to James Island to Cat's house.  Champs didn't even know where to turn when he saw a golf cart, a tractor and 2 dogs!  He had so much fun playing at their house that he decided he didn't even need a nap (he had napped pretty much whole way down though).  Here's a glimpse of his fun on the "toys" at Uncle Blake and Aunt Cat's.  We also got to visit with Uncle Will (real uncle here) and Melissa.  Aunt Ashley was busy being an awesome Junior Leaguer but did come over Sat night after Champs had gone to sleep.

Champs played so hard all afternoon that by 6:15 he was getting so tired.  Uncle Will was reading some books to him and then Champs was sleepily playing with his phone and took this picture.  Tired eyes + monk + paci = sleep is coming soon!

Sunday morning before heading back, we went over to Mt P to see Matt and Katie, their new house and their new cute dog, Hudson!

Katie made the most delicious breakfast casserole that I had to get the recipe immediately.  I can't wait to make this soon!  Here is the recipe. 

 We had a nice little visit and loved seeing them and their beautiful house!  Hope to go back soon for a longer stay and maybe sans wild child that couldn't stay away from their china cabinet :)

After this we were on the road again with a bee-line trek to see Da!!  We had a good afternoon - was such a pretty day.  We walked around the neighborhood for a bit and then went back so Champs could nap b/c I had a "fun" activity planned for late afternoon.  Joan was SO KIND to offer to take some pics of us so I could try to get a picture for our Christmas card so we went downtown and did that late afternoon.

We closed out the weekend with an early supper at Tazza Kitchen!

Hooray for the weekends!  Now back to the grind....