Welcome to day 4. A not so peachy day at the beach. Which was so disappointing because look at this kid below. These pictures aren't edited a bit. All of it was GORGEOUS. The little lady, the ocean, the sand. It was the quintessential PERFECT day at the beach......
Except for one thing. This doll face child is in her 'threes' and occasionally we have days that can be fairly labeled as 'holy terror days'. Day 4 was one of those days. This little nugget was IRRITABLE and thus being tremendously disrespectful to her momma. We were down at the beach by 9:00 and back in the condo and grounded by 9:45. Short lived day in paradise.
This picture has a filter on it but COME ON. Doesn't this look like we're having the time of our life here? The transparency of our day was that she was probably storming off in the ocean to get away from me for 'being sooooo mean'! :) Ha!
A little lesson for you future groundation parents: You get antsy being cooped up in the house all day while on vacation. Getting 'out for a bit' and sticking to your guns about being grounded from the water gets EXPENSIVE. Don't try it. Rent 4 Redbox's and keep your tail at home. I'm an idiot.
The ferris wheel (and this ridiculous amount of joy) was free for her and not bad for me.... and worth every penny to get captures of tangible joy like this...
But then, like a $UCKER, we wandered into our first build-a-bear store. Almo$t $20 later for a $tinkin' $tuffed animal, we were broke and happy. The little experience of building your bear was cute...
You pick out a heart for your animal (London threw in an extra one for good mea$ure)...
..then $he $tuffed him full of fluff...
then $he went through thi$ little ritual where $he rub$ the heart on different part$ of her body to promi$e to love it with every part of her....
... and $queeze it tight and tell it $he loves it...
... in goe$ the heart....
...then Freckle the puppy got an air fluff and was all $et for $ome lovin'! (Yes, all of those $$$ are to reiterate the fact that I just threw my hard earned money down the drain. For suckers, i tell you!!!)
By this point in the day, we started getting, 'Where are you??? We miss you!' texts from Hannah so we went for a late afternoon walk and arm swinging session with Mrs. Bananas. We sat in the waves and caught clams for about 30 minutes straight. After all the emotions and effort of our groundation day, our afternoon turned into EXACTLY what our morning could've started as... the perfect day at the beach! :)
One hilarious moment: We were all sitting in the waves scooping up clams and we didn't know it but a little tiny crab washed up to us and apparently London set her little chunky thigh right down on top of it. A few mins later she moved and this baby crab JETTED out from underneath her! Shocked us all to death and praise GOD it didn't pinch her! That would've ruined the beach for her for life!
Day 5 was spent soaking up every second of play time with my Lu Lu so I didn't even get my camera out of the bag. We played as hard as we could possibly play until lunch, then we packed up and headed home. It was a lovely, wonderful vacation and we're both already jonesing for another trip!
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