August 14-18, 2017

Grammy and Grandpa were back with us for a few days, and we took advantage of their company for some good play time and adventures. Selah June read books with Grammy and snuggled. I told them they couldn’t dump me. That I was the mommy!  And then they started chanting “dump! dump! dump! dump!”

How did I get so marginalized in my own home??!!

Grammy won Selah June over with a Paw Patrol coloring book with magic wonder marker. There are a lot of rare finds hiding in her school room. SJ happened to benefit from this one.

SJ really concentrated on coloring in all the details on several pages. And then they were so beautiful that she wanted to immediately hang them up on the wall.

I love it!

On Friday, I took annual leave, and we stayed home from work. Selah June didn’t have school this week, so we planned an adventure with Kessica and the kids to go to the beach. It was hot, but it was also very beautiful. The kids helped carry all of the stuff out to the water, and Selah June was a big girl and walked on her own alongside Satie Isabella.

Once we got out there, the other kids ran off to play. But Selah June wanted to stand under the umbrella next to us and eat snacks.  ALL the snacks…

She liked the sand toys, but she didn’t really want to go near the water to fill up her buckets. She kept asking Satie and Sebastian to do her bidding. A couple of times she wanted us to go down to the water with her. And she enjoyed standing about waist-deep holding our hands until she had something sting her on her boodle. I’m still not sure exactly what happened, but we did end up spending a bit of time going to the restroom, rinsing ourselves off in the outdoor freshwater showers, and stripping down out of our “scratchy” swimsuit.

All in all it was a great way to end our week and cap off our summer. I need more days like it. She’s getting way easier to manage at the beach, and the other kids are now super independent.