The Beach Revisited

This post is gonna be FAT, let me just warn you now. I narrowed down the pictures alot, though you probably won't be able to tell.

Thursday night, my dear friend Tiffany came with her two boys Corbin and Carter to spend the night. In the morning, we went to Galveston.





Ava loves the beach, no if's, and's, or but's about it. Ava was excited!

This was Corbin and Carter's first trip to the ocean. Corbin was excited!

When we arrived, we set up camp, and the wind tried it's hardest to rip our umbrella out of the sand.





It was also lunchtime so we tried to get some food into hungry tummies, but we severely underestimated the manpower needed to corral two babies on the beach, plus handle the two toddlers.



Luke and Carter crawled around making a mess of themselves and dining on sand-dipped graham crackers. Yum!

Ava would stay at the beach all night if we let her. She is a true beach bum. It reminds me of her Grandma Leslie's love for the ocean.

She is just happy to splash in the waves, wade through the ripples, and play in the sand.

I couldn't even get her to eat because she was too busy.




Corbin, it turns out, decided the ocean was not all it was cracked up to be. He was terrified! Poor little guy! He'd scream bloody murber at the mention of going to the water.

He became our official seagull scarer-awayer. And he took his job very seriously.

Finally Tiffany got him to ride on her back when she went in the water and he thought that was pretty fun.


Luke was happy to be toted around though he was pretty sleepy.


He finally succumbed to slumber in the sling.



What do you think of those eyelashes? I know I'm jealous.

Meanwhile, Ava pretty much has the funnest dad on the planet. (At least I'm sure she thinks so!) I just love these pictures.




After a few fun hours we packed it up to head home. Ava was still happy and once in the car remembered that she was hungry!




And a few minutes later, Ava succumbed to slumber as well,


Luke kept sleeping, shirtless, most of the way home.



Thanks for the fun day, Tiffany! And for being such a good sport!



And perhaps tomorrow after I upload some more pictures, you will see the misery of a child who plays on the beach when not adequately sunscreened. Maybe I will call it "Little Tomato" and I won't be talking about the garden.