Cabin Fever

Last weekend I forced everyone we decided  to spontaneously venture out to the beach.  A little bit of a back story as to why (as if you really need a reason to go to the beach.. but I’ll share anyway):  For the last several weeks we’ve had some pretty BORING weekends here.  I mean brutally boring.  About 2 weeks before Julia was born until now (she is 5 weeks) we have done absolutely nothing – literally inside all weekend… mostly due to the extreme heat and having a newborn, but nevertheless, I get extreme cases of cabin fever and have suffered from this ‘condition’  since I was little.  I look forward to the time when all our family can be together without school or work and really have a need to do things together as a family.   HOWEVER, the reality was us sitting around in our small villa – all up in each other’s space, Espy is off duty, so mama is the fill in housemaid constantly picking up, cooking and cleaning, doing dishes etc.. (wah, I know)  the kids try to stay entertained while Charles and I refereed the little spats about everything… anyway – it was just no fun.  I had finally hit my breaking point and was like, “That’s it, we are getting out of here!!”  We had breakfast, loaded everyone up in the car and went down to the beach for a morning outing. 

When we got there they bolted down to the sand, I played with the kids while Charles enjoyed some coffee and sat with Julia.  We searched for shells, looked for fish and played in the sand… Here are two attempts at getting a picture of my two goof-balls.

This one is like… ok, we’ll stand here, but we won’t give you a good picture.

Audrey’s only mission is to collect sea shells… love seeing the sky-scrapers in the background.  I wonder what they’ll think when they look back on these pictures.

More playtime on the beach:

Took a break for some Cold Stone ice cream. 

Then walked over to the playground and played there for a while…

Snapped a picture of Will in time out for calling a kid stupid. {SIGH}.

This little gal slept thru it all. 

Her first trip to the beach at 5 weeks old.

This weekend might be another uneventful one since Charles is out of town… too bad it is my birthday weekend. wahhh!  Well, I guess there is always next weekend.