in Dew's August Time (Part 2)

It has been an impossibly busy summer, but we finally made it to the beach for Emerson to first experience the sand between her toes. We stayed with Al's mom in Salter Path, but drove to the Oceanana in Atlantic Beach for the day. It's where I spent my first time at the beach so it holds lots of nostalgia for me. I was so glad that Ella and now Emerson made there first trip to the beach there too! They both enjoyed the sun and sand, can you tell?

 

That's a happy face, not a grouchy face!

The one drawback to our first beach experience was an unexpected pipe that burst in the beach house.  We think it had been leaking for weeks and did significant damage to the floors and walls.  Mold growing, yuck!  This is your house after 3 weeks of running water:

 

 

Anyone know a good contractor in Atlantic Beach?  We'll see what happens when we get the estimate.

It was an entire weekend of firsts. Including Ella's first shrimping experience and putt-putt.  On Sunday morning, one of the guys in a neighboring house was in the marina throwing a net trying to get shrimp.  There is an art to shrimping with a hand-held net and every time he threw it, Ella says "was that a good throw?".  Mutliply that about fifty times followed each time by "did you get any?"  Whew.  But, when Daddy attempted to shrimp, she couldn't care less.

We also played a game of putt-putt with Ella while Emerson stayed with Me-Ma.  We had to fish her ball out of the water several times, but the putter only had to be fished out once.  That's good, right? 

 
The month also brought Ella's first gymnastics lesson.  I think Mommy and Daddy were looking forward to it even more than Ella!  They don't want the parents in the gym so I didn't know how it would go, but she was so focused that she never even missed us when we snuck out to have a quick bit to eat at Chubby's next door.  I can't upload the video, but I'll download one so or you can check it out on Facebook.

We also managed to squeeze in Al's birthday with a couple GiGi's cupcakes and me doing BOTH baths instead of dividing the responsbility.  We really know how to celebrate around here!

Until next Dew time.