The Beach

So, at the beginning of the summer Alec, Adam and I sat down and made up a summer adventure list. I never posted it on here because I am a lazy bum, but here it is...

- Take a long walk (done)
- Ride bikes (done)
- Go to the pool (done...MANY times)
- Disneyland (done)
- Camping with Dad
- Angel game (done)
- Tour of Angel Stadium
- Bowling (done)
- Beach (done, see below)
- San Diego
- Discovery Science Center
- Oak Canyon Nature Center

Not too ambitious of a list for us. To date we have done most of the things on here with the exception of a few that will happen in the next two weeks.

It has been a crazy summer between bible camp and swim lessons so we had not gotten to the Beach Day yet. Well, Adam was out of town this last weekend attending Pop-Pop Hawley's 90th birthday (HAPPY BIRTHDAY POP POP!!) in New York so we had to keep ourselves busy here. My parents took the boys on Saturday down to their condo in San Clemente (beautiful beach town about 30 miles away) to spend the night. Ashley and I went bowling on Saturday afternoon with Aunt Amy and Uncle Chris and had a nice quiet evening. Sunday morning Ash and I headed out to meet up with the crew in San Clemente. We met up with my parents and the Carson Family (Allie, Jason, and Brooklyn) for church and then went to the condo and onto the beach.

As I previously mentioned, we have not been to the beach this year. Aaron was so little last year that his favorite beach activity was to eat sand. Lovely. Alec was just getting interested in the water last year so I was curious to see what this year would be like. Well, it was interesting to say the least. We finally set up all our gear up on the sand and Alec made a bee-line for the water. Papa stayed down there to watch him. Aaron was just having fun playing in the sand. After a while I asked Aaron to take a soda down to Papa. He marched down to the water and handed it to him. Just as he did, a small wave came in and washed over Aaron's feet. You would have thought the water was burning him by how much he FREAKED OUT and screamed!!! He HATED it!! He came running back up to us and refused to get anywhere near the water for the rest of the day.

I decided to go down to the water with Ashley at one point. I was holding her in my arms as I got down to the water and just then a wave came and washed over my feet. She also FREAKED OUT!!! All because a wave hit MY feet, 5 feet below where she was safely in my arms. SERIOUSLY?!?!!? She did not let up until we went back up to the blanket again.

We were planning on a few trips to the beach in the next couple weeks before school starts, but I am guessing that is not a good idea. How can I watch two kids who are afraid of the water, while one last one is in love with it?? Maybe next year?? :)