Beach (take two)

A lot has been going on the past few weeks. One thing was a trip to the beach with some friends. WE HAD A BLAST. I have definitely learned a valuable lesson about babies and the beach. They either need to be too small to be very mobile or walking OR… over the age of one. Margaux was night and day from when we took her to the beach when she was 10 months old. It’s amazing how much she has developed and changed in the past 4 months. She loved the beach. She would walk out on the sand and point at the water and scream “BEEeee!” She scampered around and ran in the sand. She played with the other children. She didn’t make herself miserable with rubbing sand, sunscreen or saltwater in her eyes. She was a regular beach baby. . The biggest problem we had this time was trying to keep her from eating seashells. I had to trick her into coming into the shade for a while. Having a fair skinned little redhead I’m constantly worried she is going to burn to a crisp. It somewhat consumes me. She wears a little scuba looking swimsuit that is 50 spf. I think she is going to be doomed to these swimsuits until she is 16!

We spent all of Thursday on the beach followed by a fire S’mores and fireworks. Margaux fell asleep but woke up and watched the fireworks with me from the deck of the house we stayed in. Friday we shopped at Appalacacola and headed to the beach. Saturday started out chilly, so we took the kiddos and the men folk to the bay side. The kids played on the playground and the men played on the paddleboard. Sunday we made the long trek home with a stop in Dothan to have lunch with Monica and Jay.

It was a wonderful trip with great company. It was so needed.

*Funny Margaux story from the vacation. She is very into animal noises. Anything she can associate with a cow she does, if its big, if its round, if it has spots, etc. Matt had a hat with a bear on it and Margaux would point at it and say “Moo”. Well… Margaux walked in while Mommy was putting on this bathing suit

pointed at me and said, “Moo”. I laughed and laughed and warned Margaux that if she were a little bigger Mommy may have been offended.