Flying Kites & Beach Day

Our third day of vacation… our first and only day (I think) of getting to sleep past 6am!  Max didn’t understand that vacation was for sleeping in.  Jesse rolled over at 8am and let out a yell.  His neck muscle had locked up – think charlie-horse times 10 that doesn’t let up.  I had thrown in our heat pack and got him started on a heat – ice (which a frozen margarita pouch works perfectly) rotation.  His neck muscle has locked up before and it took about three days to get it back.  This wasn’t something he wanted to happen at the very beginning of his vacation!

It was beach day.  Mally really wanted to fly her kite at the beach and today was going to be the day.  Jesse said he would attempt to come with us – or I would drop him off at the ER and take the kids while he was getting help.  ; ) 

We loaded the truck.  I drove.  We stopped at the pharmacy for Jesse to get some pain killers.  Hunted down some coffee and took the kids to the park to swing to see how Jesse would do.  He wasn’t good.  He was in a lot of pain!  We drove to the hospital and found an urgent care.  He went in – the kids and I sat in the parking lot and waited.  Thankfully I had the DVD players in there from the drive up to Michigan.  That they watched a movie and ate snacks and I read a book on my phone.  They were little patient rock stars waiting for their Daddy!  Jesse came out over an hour later with a prescription for a muscle relaxer.  We went to fill it and got some lunch and then headed for the beach.

While on our way to the beach Max fell asleep.  Jesse stayed in the truck with him while Mallory and I went to fly kites.

It took me a bit to get this kite up in the air and not come crashing down on nearby people!  And for a middle of the week day the beach was full of people!

She flew it for about 5.7 seconds and was DONE!  Really?!  She wanted to go play in the water!

We walked.  She wanted to swim, but I wouldn’t let her in her clothes.  I thought we might be able to come back anther day with swim gear.

She thought she could catch the seagulls.  Oh silly girl!

Mallory is getting so tall and lean!  Her shorts have recently become way too big for her!  Her pants are way too short and when you find them long enough they are way too big in the waist.  Her little shorts kept slipping down

I took a video of her making a “snow angel”.  : )

She Thinks We’re Just Fishing…

I don’t know if the quality of this picture will show up on your screen but – there is a drool drip and a water drip!  He is in a major drool phase right now!

He squatted here and picked up sand and dropped sand for quite some time.

Then sat down and played.

And these two fished with hunks of left over steak.  Had a hard time finding worms.  Jesse went out in the woods for about 20 minutes and came back empty handed.  Worms are scarce around these parts, I guess.  ; )

The fish were big fans of the steak!  They were catching lots of little guys!

Vacation!!

We went back to the cabin on 16 Mile Lake up in the UP (Upper Peninsula) of Michigan.  The kids could not get enough of playing in this sand.

Max’s shoes still have sand in them.  I can not get it out!  I still have sand in my truck I noticed this weekend when I moved Mallory’s car seat!

Building a sand castle with Maxwell around is almost impossible!  He things it is a perfect spot to sit!

Leave it to Daddy’s to teach them to throw things out into the water!  Throwing the dump truck out there.  Then Mally starts throwing it and going to get it.  Then Max starts throwing it and won’t go get it – so I have to go out in that mucky yucky water!  Towards the end of the week Max started getting a little more braver with the water and going out in it.

Mally likes to fish.  No idea where she got this because neither Jesse nor I grew up fishing, but she likes to sit there and reel it in over and over and over.