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May. 28th, 2012 01:27 pmYesterday, for reasons I do not really understand, I was a great big grumpy impossible mess for a long time. Grant came in the bedroom where I'd been sleeping in and lounging about internetting and it was sort of like:
Him: Good morning.
Me: HA!
Him: Ok then.
Me: *scowl*
He sits down and I hit him really hard with a pillow, and continue to act like a giant whiny baby who's pissed off that I don't even know what I need and he tells me I'm being ridiculous.
EVENTUALLY, though, as he had work to do at his office waaaaay up in Ft Lauderdale, we drove all together and dropped him off there, and the kids and I went to the beach. And although we drove the whole way through vicious thunderstorms and knew that the outer bands of a tropical storm were upon us, once we got up there the sky was clearing and once the kids and I got to the beach, it was teeming with people and really awesome.
It was actually the single most eventful beach trip I have ever had.
1. Sea turtle nests!
2. Group of dolphins swimming near us!
3. Fireworks show we did not know to expect, right across the street from the water!
4. Cops dusting a car with a smashed in windshield for fingerprints!
There were before and afters, too - before, the kids thought the drawbridge was really cool. After - ANANDA HAD A BUG IN HER EAR. A tiny little bug deep deep in, driving her at midnight to get out of bed and come tell us, "Something is in my ear, I can hear it and it feels like it's moving." Grant looked in, saw something tiny and deep and indeed moving, and took her to the ER and it turned out to be a mayfly - apparently they travel on the currents of the water? They flushed her ear and pulled it out and sent her home with antibiotic ear drops and she was looking brave and bragging about how it's the first hospital bracelet she's had since she was born, in her bed, by 2 am.
Last Thursday after we dropped Ananda and Aaron off for a big birthday party-sleepover, I took just the little kids to the beach by Daddy's work without us planning for it at all. We keep a beach blanket and a couple other random things in the hatch, and I found an old outgrown pair of boy swim trunks for my daughter who was in a calf length, frilly, floral layered skirt. She is SUCH a girly girl, she could not believe she was wearing "this BOY bathingsuit!"
This is now one of my favorite pictures. Beach Beast.
Yesterday:
Towards the end, as it gets dark, this guy is always freezing.
He's SO BRAVE in the water, now - fighting the waves and laughing getting splashed in the face and trying to float and just, what a difference vs Isaac of yore.
Pajama Girl was giggly and delirious by the time they'd went to the pharmacy. I think she was giddy with having survived the ordeal.
Him: Good morning.
Me: HA!
Him: Ok then.
Me: *scowl*
He sits down and I hit him really hard with a pillow, and continue to act like a giant whiny baby who's pissed off that I don't even know what I need and he tells me I'm being ridiculous.
EVENTUALLY, though, as he had work to do at his office waaaaay up in Ft Lauderdale, we drove all together and dropped him off there, and the kids and I went to the beach. And although we drove the whole way through vicious thunderstorms and knew that the outer bands of a tropical storm were upon us, once we got up there the sky was clearing and once the kids and I got to the beach, it was teeming with people and really awesome.
It was actually the single most eventful beach trip I have ever had.
1. Sea turtle nests!
2. Group of dolphins swimming near us!
3. Fireworks show we did not know to expect, right across the street from the water!
4. Cops dusting a car with a smashed in windshield for fingerprints!
There were before and afters, too - before, the kids thought the drawbridge was really cool. After - ANANDA HAD A BUG IN HER EAR. A tiny little bug deep deep in, driving her at midnight to get out of bed and come tell us, "Something is in my ear, I can hear it and it feels like it's moving." Grant looked in, saw something tiny and deep and indeed moving, and took her to the ER and it turned out to be a mayfly - apparently they travel on the currents of the water? They flushed her ear and pulled it out and sent her home with antibiotic ear drops and she was looking brave and bragging about how it's the first hospital bracelet she's had since she was born, in her bed, by 2 am.
Last Thursday after we dropped Ananda and Aaron off for a big birthday party-sleepover, I took just the little kids to the beach by Daddy's work without us planning for it at all. We keep a beach blanket and a couple other random things in the hatch, and I found an old outgrown pair of boy swim trunks for my daughter who was in a calf length, frilly, floral layered skirt. She is SUCH a girly girl, she could not believe she was wearing "this BOY bathingsuit!"
This is now one of my favorite pictures. Beach Beast.
Yesterday:
Towards the end, as it gets dark, this guy is always freezing.
He's SO BRAVE in the water, now - fighting the waves and laughing getting splashed in the face and trying to float and just, what a difference vs Isaac of yore.
Pajama Girl was giggly and delirious by the time they'd went to the pharmacy. I think she was giddy with having survived the ordeal.
