Vacation Day #2 - Nanner's Backyard

Plenty of room to play in Nanner's backyard.  The boys had lots of fun riding their Power Wheels.

Purple hydrangea

Vacation Day #1 - Road Trip

Here we are on day one of our 23 day road trip vacation!  We're going to be doing a lot of driving and I hope they are all as wonderful as this first day.  We made the first trip from Texas to Mississippi in about 7.5 hours and it went by in a flash because the boys were so quiet!

I did a little research before the trip to find a little technology to help us out.  This is what we ended up with and it's working out well so far.

We got each of the boys their own iPad mini with an Aero Armor case.  We had a fun little scavenger hunt when we gave them to them.  

The GripDaddy headrest mount is built solid and is easy to use. 

The Seagate Wireless Plus is a 1TB drive with it's own wireless network.  You connect the iPad's to its wireless network and use the Seagate Media App to stream the content.  Sam was able to operate it completely on his own, but Ben still needs help to pick the show he wants to watch.  We had a little bit of trouble getting the content on the drive initially.  It wasn't extracting the metadata correctly.  It was easily resolved by reformatting the drive with NTFS instead of HFS+ and reloading the content.

The Logitech Bluetooth Headset has worked great so far.  It's even small enough to fit Ben's head.

Ben's favorites so far have been Team Umizoomi, LeapFrog, Magic School Bus, and Legos movies.  Sam has watched a little Teen Titans, Young Justice, and Legos movies, but he's mostly interested in playing games over watching movies.  Little Inferno is his favorite app so far.