Vacation Day 6, – Friday, June 18, 2010
Today, we left Sophie sleeping with our daddy at the campsite and spent the whole day at the beach with K. Guess what? The water was open!
We dubbed this hairdo “mouse ears” and she proudly sported them all day long. The three of us sat huddled under an umbrella because it was HOT today. Ella is so low maintenance at the beach and rarely complains. The most I had to deal with was washing hands to eat lunch and taking a walk to the restroom.
Thank goodness, my cousin Kalli joined us later in the morning. She dug in the sand and played in the surf with my girl all morning long. K slept in the sun and I read another book. Or two.
See that purple shovel? That taught us a lesson about the moral fiber of that little mouse-eared girl. She found that shovel left in the sand and wanted to dig with it. The longer she played with it, the worse she felt. She wanted to know if everyone that passed by was “coming to get their shovel” and nothing we said could calm her down. She didn’t want to steal it and was worried that there was a little girl out there very upset about her loss.
Enter Alicia. That’s right – K, Kalli & I had to make up a story about the little girl who owned the shovel and how she would want Ella to have it. She even posed for a picture with it so that when we got home I could “email Alicia’s mommy” and tell her that we were taking good care of that shovel. I’m not sure I laughed any harder all week!
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