A day at the Lake

June 6th...

Today Tiffany took the kids and I to a beach on Kentucky lake! She swam here a lot as a kid and was wanting an excuse to spend the day there, so being the awesome friend that I am, I gave her one! We got out there around 3 oclock which is totally unheard of back in Washington! If you don't get to the water by 11/noon it's almost not worth it, but here we weren't even the last people to get there! There were people still arriving to go swim when we left at 6:30! Cael was so excited to get there, he had been wearing his water shoes since he woke up this morning. He even wore his life jacket shirt thing around the house for an hour or two before we left.

I got a big fish floaty for Averi even though I wasn't really sure she would be big enough or stable enough to sit in it, I just know that there are certain places that are almost impossible to take two kids, and water is one of them! I figured if they could both float OK, then Tiffany would still be able to enjoy the water herself. To my surprise, Averi loved it! The whole time she was in there she was kicking her feet. She was even kicking when I got her out and held her in the water myself. And the sand was no different! She was all over it! She wanted nothing more than to roll in the sand and dig her tiny little hands in. It was hilarious because Cael was NOT a sand baby. When I took him to Hawaii last summer he would sit on his butt and balance there so his hands and feet were all up the air and he wouldn't have to touch the sand. I think it has something to do with the time he was born...he was born in March so during that first summer, he was still a baby baby and didn't spend a whole lot of time on the ground. If we went to the beach or pool, he was usually inside the air conditioned house, or his stroller in the shade. So by the time his second summer rolled around, sand and grass was still new to him. But with Averi, she was born in November so she is able to really be a part of everything we do this summer, she is getting an earlier start on being exposed to things like sand. Or...Cael is just a whiner! Either way you slice it, Averi likes sand and Cael could live without it :) Maybe a house in Hawaii isn't in our future afterall...Nah! He would get used to it, I'm sure!