4th of July--What a Week!

It's official I was never meant to grow up landlocked in the Midwest! Our family spent all last week at the beach and my girls had the best time, I loved it as well. My kids are natural beach bums, all they wanted to do was spend all day at the there, building sand piles by the surf, body boarding, and once the waves got good jumping through the waves. S was the kid who I had to pry out of the water everyday, L (who is always shy and quiet) made the most friends just sitting there playing in the sand (the little kids were drawn to her because she kept finding shells and putting them in cups of water and telling the kids the shells would turn alive again--they actually believed her --it was pretty funny). Then there's X. She swims underwater andlooks as graceful as a sea creature, I could honestly watch her swim all day, it is that entertaining. Even strangers stopped and watched her swim, always with the same question "how old is she?" To which I would reply two, which shocked them because she wasn't afraid of the water and she was actually jumping over the little waves to swim over them. The best thing for me was seeing dolphins and kyaking in the ocean--always hoping they'd come and swim by us. Mom and Emma were the lucky ones. When they went out the waves were so choppy and hard to kyak in, they were just about to come in when one dolphin jumped right past them. Then Emma said a whole family swam past them and she could feel the water shoot out of the blow whole of one of the dolphins. Then three jumped right next to them. Everyone on the beach pointed and screamed with excitment at the site of it and Emma and Mom were right there. Emma was so scared, because they were so close, she was worried they might knock them off the kyak. They were sooo lucky!

Here is S pointing to something in the sand. It may have been a little crab.

L digging away making stuff.

X playing around in the water--happy as can be!

X swimming underwater at the pool.

Us riding a 6 person bike on the boardwalk.

Do Blondes have more fun? Only if they DON'T look like that, I think! I'll stick to brunette hair for now.