Beach Trip

We took the kids to the Myrtle Beach for Father’s Day weekend. Hubby grew up going to Myrtle Beach, SC and I started going there during my college years at NC State. The first trip I ever paid and took my mom/sister on was to Myrtle Beach when I graduated college. It was such a big deal to my mom that I spent some of my own money to do something for her. Hubby and I also met in Myrtle Beach Labor Day weekend 1999. Friends of his and mine all knew each other and organized a big beach trip where we rented two big condos and my co-worker invited me along. So we have taken the kids there a few times, too. C started going at just a few months old. It may not be our favorite beach (not sure which one would be) but it is definitely in the Top 10 for our family.

This was Baby D’s first time to the beach and she loved it. I think it made it nicer that she can now sit up, so she showed off those skills and ate a ton of sand and she loves the water. We spent a big portion of our time on the beach with me, Miss M, and Baby D just sitting in the waves. Hubby always digs the kids a little pool and they loved that.

Miss M loves the pool, the beach, the water. She got up one morning and went on the screened porch of the condo we rented and started saying “Pool! Pool! Pool!” She wanted to do nothing more than to be in the water non-stop.

C was so happy that he got to play catch on the beach, play in the waves and loved having other big kids at the pool to play with.

As with most of our typical beach vacations, we really didn’t do much except go to the beach, go to the pool, and cook. It is funny that we cook more on vacation than we do at home, but with both of us working, cooking becomes so rushed at home.

Here is Miss M swimming:

Here are the kids posing on the beach chairs:

Soccer is over, onto swimming

Soccer season ended on Saturday with his final game of the season. He played really well. He had two favorite boys on his team and the three of them played so well together. They really came together with blocking, passing, and scoring goals. He got a trophy which he was super excited about. It is a little soccer boy. He is up to two trophies now. He didn’t happen to score, but he did have two assists.
This week he started swimming lessons. He is now in Youth Class 3, it is 6-9 year olds and they need to be swimming at least 15 yards unassisted. He was about average in the class. He wasn’t the best, but not the worst. His teacher said he did well and listened a lot. I am so happy for him, he LOVED being in the pool. He swam and treaded water. He needs to work on listening to the teacher a little more; I think he was so excited to be in the water, that he was having a hard time sitting still at all. He has lessons the whole month of November.
Not sure what we will do for his next activity, Chris wants to make sure that he is not over scheduled and doing more than one thing at a time. Spring soccer starts end of February.

Random Musings

Oh, I so wish I would have written down all the funny things the the dude says. I am going to try to get better now. He makes me laugh daily with the funny things he says.
He has insisted for a while he has a girlfriend, her name is Patty. She may be a little too old for him, but that hasn't stopped him. Oh, and the fact that she is engaged to my brother hasn't stopped him either. He has a picture of the two of them (shown here) that he keeps on his bedside table. He told me yesterday he is going to marry only Patty and not me, then said, I 'm joking mom, I am marrying you AND Patty. :-)
Today on the way into school he tells daddy he needs swim lessons so he can swim in the deep end of the pool. Can you guess what I will be looking up today? Yep, swim lessons. He has had two sets of them and is close to swimming. I'd say he can swim 15 yards unassisted.