Beginning of Beach Weekends 2012

We are starting our every other weekend at the beach routine for the summer.  Memorial Day weekend was the first, so it was a nice long break.  It was very relaxing and I even got a little touch-up paint work done in one of the bedrooms.  It was a great weekend except for all of the seaweed.  It was OK the 1st day because it seemed to be really fresh.  Not so fresh the 2nd day, so we only made it to the water twice, but that was fine because there is tons of fun to be had on the deck. 

 While I was totally creeped out by the seaweed, Ms. Addison had no issues and dove right in.  You had to basically clear a path from the clear sand to the water, so here she is throwing the seaweed out of the way.  Yuck!

 Double yuck, yet impressive.   She built a tower of seaweed and climbed on top (as I type this, I am just squirming at the thought of having to walk through it much less climb around in it!)  This tower was literally as tall as she is.

 Ella on the other hand was not a fan of the seaweed, although she still disliked the ocean more.  She didn't scream "no ocean" and try and run back to the house like she did last time.  And she would play around and didn't have to sit in my lap the whole time, but there was no frolicking in the water.  I'm sure she'll warm up to the idea right around August when our beach weekends start to taper off!

 I say I was productive with my little painting project, but Michael was super productive and built a picnic table and bench!  We had leftover wood from the beach railing we replaced, so Michael just whipped it into a picnic table.  The table was just a naptime project that Addy helped with.  I was pretty darn impressed and we put it to use that night - works great for dining al fresco.

 This picture doesn't do the sisterly love justice.  This was after a trip to the beach when we were wet and drying off before going inside.  The girls just sat and snuggled for quite a while.  Ella's eyes are closed in the pic, but I don't think that she was actually asleep.  Although she was calm and still for quite a while.  That is a very rare occurrence.

Here is the table and bench, with the woodworker and his two cute models.  Ella is not a fan of clothes these days, so at the beach she is usually just sporting a diaper.  This likely won't be the last diaper pic of the summer.