Let's go the the BEACH!!!!

Okay so what do you do when you ask your four year old, "what do you want to do tomorrow honey?" and she says, "lets go to the BEACH!!!!" - I mean we live in Indiana... the beach? Seriously? Let me just call and have the jet fueled up:-) Well, it appears the jet is taken and who wants to let a four year old down?

So we headed to the beach at the lake (Lake Santee).... we picked Jess & Ella up at 9:30 a.m. - managed to get all three girls AND their car seats in the back of my car. A HUGE accomplishment - 1) made it nicer being able to ride & chat, 2) we could check off the "car pool" list -- soooo GREEN!!! Once we made it to the lake & unloaded all of our stuff, the girls immediately started digging in the sand. Eva was even pretty good hanging out on the towel (she's not a huge fan of the sand) so I was impressed. The girls played in the sand, played down by the water, their were several swing sets w/ slides, a merry-go-round, they played w/ the beach ball -- you name it they were doing it!

Oh and they got to feed the ducks... you would have thought Grace won the lottery -- she came running up to me and said "MOM, the duck ate my pretzel!!!" Both Grace & Ella chased the ducks, I guess they owed it to them to feed them after they terrorized them:-) The girls even made a few friends while they were there.

When we were getting ready to leave there was a VERY large boy (honestly I'm guessing 1000 lbs. - no joke, and he was young too it was sad) you wanted to look, but knew you shouldn't. Grace and I haven't talked about why people are different b/c it's not something she's ever really noticed before. But while I was walking Eva up to the car Grace was w/ Jess & Ella when he walked by - apparently Grace and I NEED to have this talk soon! B/c Grace yelled to Jess, "Jess - did you see that BIG BOY??!!" Jess told her - SSHHHH!!!! Don't say anything (honestly hoping he didn't squish her) when Grace repeated it, only a decimal lower... I think she wanted to point me out and say "that's her mom, we just met her today". It must have made an impression on Grace b/c right after giving Matt the shells she found for him she told him about the "BIG BOY".

Oh I almost forgot (reading Jess's blog helped me remember!!!).... when we got to Jess's, Jess & I were unpacking. Apparently Ella asked Grace for gum -- or maybe Grace offered it (she probably knew if she could unload hers she could get "new gum"). Grace is bragging that she shared w/ Ella and gave her some GUM! Then makes the comment that she got "new gum", then she makes some comment that sounded like... she gave Ella her old gum... before Jess & I could processes what she said, Ella says "YEAH! Her shared w/ me!" And is sporting a huge piece of old blue gum! Jess & I laughed & laughed & laughed b/c Grace had chewed that gum ALL DAY - she'd had it in her mouth the entire time we were gone including when she was eating pretzels! But Ella was so excited to have Grace's used gum - smiling proudly to show it off. As Jess said, "What great friends, wonder how long they will be swapping used gum."