05 September, 2013

Welcome September!

We have officially begun the new school year!  And with that comes the ever present need for downtime when we can get it.  One of the weekly activities we love is our Park Playgroup on Wednesdays.  It gets us out of the house.  It's a great mid-week change.  The kids get to see their friends and make new ones, and guess what?  So do I!  I love park day!  So this was our first Playgroup visit for this school year.  (the last section is just cuteness of Vaughn)
 getting so big!
 Evie loves to help out Vaughn - he likes it too, most of the time




Vaughn just discovered this Little People's truck - it's perfect for little chubby fingers

Ok, so looking at all these pix I realized they're mostly of Vaughn.  Apparently, I was gravitating toward the only kid I didn't have to try to coral into learning this week.  Wouldn't you?  He was the easy one for the moment.  Trust me, he's heading toward two.  I'm sure it won't last.  I'm taking advantage while I can.

04 September, 2013

Loopy Lizzy

Mom: Lizzy, pull up a chair so you can have snack.

(Lizzy pulls a chair to the table, sits down and starts to cry.)

Mom:  Just rub it and you'll be alright.  It's okay Lizzy, it happens to everyone.

Lizzy: I know.  It just happens to me a lot.

02 September, 2013

Bellows Beach

I know that I've posted about the beach, I mean, we live on an island.  We go to the beach a lot.  But Bellows beach is the best beach on the island so we love to go there.  Plus, we go often enough that you can actually see my kids growing up on the sand.  It won't last forever, but we're taking every opportunity we can! Yes, the weather really is like this almost every day.  This was our last day of "summer" before school began on the 3rd of September.
he goes marching out….and comes surfing in.

Little V gets better at manipulating the sand every time I go.
Eve goes out and Joe comes in!
...and she's off!

Evie so loves the water.  I have to work so hard to get her to come in.  We've had discuss undertow and current and basically anything she needs to know about the water since we can't seem to keep her near us for more than a minute or so unless we have food, of course.
pretty sure that's Joe.  He spent most of his time underwater!
whoa, careful dad!  

V and Liz doing a great job together.  My sand babies.
Joe and I have this new tradition.  We love to play catch on the beach.  Sometimes we play with the football and sometimes it's a frisbee.  We've really enjoyed the activity.  We even got special toys to do it that don't mind the water.  It's a blast.  Thanks dad for taking pictures of our fun!
I know you can't see the football - it's blue.  It often looks like another island.  
Look carefully!


He's getting so good!  Great throw Joe!

Mom finally caught one!
After all that playing, getting a chance to relax in the ocean is a treat!