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Tutu Cute on the Beach

When I heard we were going to be at the beach for 4th of July I knew I had to make a red, white and blue tutu for pictures on the beach. She was so excited to put it on AND to get to play in the water with it! I am having so much fun having a little girl and playing dress up (especially since she usually likes playing along) and even more fun trying to learn my camera (even though I have had it for a couple of years now).

Prissy Smile

I always say Mady has a prissy smile. Her Daddy agrees. As we were looking at photos from vacation I came across this one:


I wonder where she gets it from?

Karma

For the past two years, Caleb has talked a lot about wanting his brothers to get stung by jellyfish so he could pee on them. Well, karma has a way of coming and biting you in your....in his case it was stinging him on his arm, leg and stomach!! He got out of the canal and we didn't even believe him at first, but then he started having red welts come up. As he was walking out of the water he kept saying "noone is peeing on me!!!"

Of course, we were not prepared for jellyfish stings. We had none of the things that you hear work. Uncle Sean quickly chugged a bottle of water and peed in it for him. In the meantime, we had gone to the owners house (the owners of the houses we were in lived in the house between the two we had). They had told us the jellyfish were in there, but that you would not know it was there until it had got you. So, we went to see the owners who happened to have some stuff called Jellyfish Squish. IT WORKED!!! It quickly quit stinging and hurting.

That was Monday. Tuesday when we went to the beach his cousin Corran got stung twice and Caleb got stung again. This time when Caleb got stung, he calmly walked out of the water asking for the Jellyfish Squish and as soon as the pain went away he went and got back in.

One of the few times I went out into the water at the beach I was standing where Andrew was playing and Mads was standing with us. I look down right next to Andrew and there was a jellyfish. Paul quickly grabbed Andrew and a net, I grabbed Mads and Daddy rescued them by getting rid of the jellyfish!

Last Day on the Beach

Thursday I got kinda bummed when I woke up and realized that we were having a tropical depression. Last year when we were at the beach we never got any family pictures, so this year it was a MUST!! But, we were leaving Friday morning, so I was pretty sure we were going to have another year with no family pictures on the beach!

Well, Friday we got up and it was sunny!! So, we packed up the car and the trailer and went to the beach for some family pictures. Boy were we surprised when we pulled in and realized there was NO beach left. It had flooded so bad that the beach was completely under water. This put a damper on my picture taking spirit!! AND, you can imagine what is going through my mind. It is bad enough trying to take pictures of five kids on dry land. Can you imagine have five kids dressed for pictures and then trying to take them while standing in and surrounded by water. The nightmare I envisioned more or less happened exactly as I figured. We were constantly telling boys to get out of the waves, kids were falling down in water, boys playing with wet sand, etc. You will see in some of these pictures that Andrew is in his speedo (or really, his underwear). His denim shorts were too heavy to stay up and the white shirt was pretty pointless!! So much for noone getting wet (all of the clothes were packed and not easy to get too). I gave up and let them all play in the water for a while before we headed out.