Lovin Some Summer Weather!

Monday - headed to the beach! These last three days have been close to 90 degrees so we are taking advantage of a little summer weather in the spring. We were joined shortly by the Bonfiglio's so we had an even bigger sand toy pile. :) The kids had fun with all the toys and also loved getting their feet buried in the sand. I got a great arm work out. :)

One of Lorelei's favorite things to do in the sand is just fill up all her different buckets. Its amazing how long sand can keep her entertained. Love it!

Tuesday - second beach day in a row! Yes I'm nuts, but we have to get to the beach as much as we can before we can't go anymore. :( This was a bit more of a trying trip. We got an umbrella to help keep the sun off (our last one broke the end of the summer last year) and that caused a few problems. The first 15 minutes or so of the trip was peaceful...Lorelei in the shade happily playing with her sand...then she decided she wanted to keep going back and forth from the water so we filled and refilled buckets to take back with us. However, on one of our many trips out to the water, the top half of the umbrella started to blow away! The bottom half stayed because we have it anchored in...so then I had to grab Lorelei and chase after it and it was already quite a ways down before I could catch it. Pregnant woman carrying toddler running down the beach after umbrella...not a pretty sight! Finally it got to some people and somebody stopped it for me. :) Then after I got the umbrella back up determined to stay there in case it would blow away, every time there was a big gust of wind Lorelei would cling to me scared it would blow away again, so I had to take it down...as you can see in the picture, poor umbrella not giving us any shade. Hopefully next time we will not have such a windy day!



Wednesday - Botanical Gardens for MOMS playgroup. Of course it was just Melissa and I for the most part, a couple of moms showed up later but our kids were done with the water by then. This first picture is from our walk to the children's garden when the kids were looking at turtles.

Playing in the water fountains...LOVED it. :) She ran around everywhere and didn't really seem to mind when she would get splashed in the face from some other kids...which was great. As you can see in the video, she also loved to drink the water. :) You can also tell how she just ran all over...not really worried about where I was at, but I'm so glad she had so much fun. After we finished with the water we played in a little house they have in the gardens as well as a few other things there. Then we took a tram around the entire gardens...which turned out to be a lot of fun the first 15 minutes and after that she was ready to go. Still had a great time and hopefully we will get a long nap today! :)