Anyway, we ate breakfast and headed down to the beach to play. We were the second people to get down there, so we had our choice of spots. It was really windy today and as we were setting up our chairs, a group of seagulls almost attacked us! OK, that's probably an overstatement, but that's what it felt like - mom's worst nightmare - she grabbed my hand and we ran towards the water just to get away from them. Turns out someone had left bits of food in the sand behind us - I will NEVER do that myself!
About a half hour later, a group of kids pretty rudely put their chairs about 3 feet from where we were sitting and proceeded to kick a soccer ball rather haphazardly in our general direction. Mom was pretty annoyed and I couldn't understand why they didn't take one of the empty spots on the beach. There was no parent with them which was also pretty annoying. We made the most of it and I played with my sand toys and made a castle around mom's feet so she couldn't get out. We ate a snack of frozen grapes (perfect beach snack!) and headed out to the water. I was really brave and even intentionally let a wave knock me over. I laughed like crazy as we were walking back to our chairs as the sand bar dropped off and the water got really deep all of the sudden. I was able to swim for a bit before it started to get shallow again.
We went in for lunch when I had to go potty and left our chairs and cart at the beach so we could go back later. I wasn't listening very well to mom, so she asked me to lay down and take a rest after lunch. I ended up climbing in the bed in mom and dad's room, climbed under the covers and fell asleep. PERFECT!!! Mom decided she'd take a nap with me. It wasn't a very long one, but I think it's just what I needed.
After putting more sunscreen on, we headed down to the pool. This time I didn't really want to go in the big pool. There were a lot more people there and I just wanted to sit in the kiddie pool and play. There was a little boy, Brock, around my age and he and I were playing pretty well. A few other kids came in and were a bit rough, so I stayed away from them. Once again, there weren't any parents around, which really irritated mom. Especially in the kiddie pool. One kid, who looked to be about 5 or 6, had a life jacket on and was running around, trying to push his cousins heads under water and literally no adult said anything to him. I even told mom that I didn't want to play near him. I think it was more crowded today than yesterday because most rentals here are Sunday to Sunday, where ours this year happened to be Saturday to Saturday.
Dad got home around 4:30 and met us at the pool. I was still playing in the kiddie pool (with some other kids toys) and *really* didn't want to leave. We decided we weren't going to go back to the beach today, so mom went to get the cart and dad gave me my five minute warning. Needless to say, a total meltdown ensued when mom came back and it was time to go - she had to pick me up out of the pool and carry me back to the elevator where I proceeded to shriek, cry, and carry on until I got to time out at the house. Mom told me I had to calm down or we wouldn't be able to go to the pool tomorrow, so I immediately stopped.
We had dinner (sloppy joes and corn on the cob, yum!) and I even got a popsicle for dessert - not sure that I actually deserved it after my awful behavior, but mom gave me one anyway (I think mostly because she wanted one too).
I was doing some work and sending mom and email while she got dinner ready the other day.
This is the view from the deck off of mom and dad's room. There's another deck off of the living room that's screened in, so pictures from there don't work so well.
I brought a fun "learning" book with me to practice writing letters. I finished my bath a little early, so dad helped me with a few pages. I'm working hard!
Swimming in the pool by myself with the swim ring. So much fun!
See how windy it was out there - my chair didn't even stay up!
I didn't really need my swim ring in the kiddie pool, but I was having fun with it anyway.
It was definitely a fun day, but I need to work on listening a little better - hopefully tomorrow will be better! Daddy's going diving again and hopefully he'll get to see the U-Boat like he did 2 years ago!
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