The Beach

Adia was up bright and early, as usual. She woke Tanae up, which is never good. After breakfast we packed up the car and headed to the beach. Adia and Tanae haven't been in a long time and never together. Tanae loved the sand and was fearless. Adia wouldn't let me set her down. It took lots of coaxing from Tanae to get Adia to touch the sand. Then, for the longest time, she would only stand or squat, but wouldn't sit. We she first saw the water, she pointed at it and asked, "What's that?" When I told her it was the ocean, she held on tighter and complained if I attempted to set her down at all.








Tanae soon became curious about the water. I walked with her up to it and she got her feet wet. Adia still wanted nothing to do with it and just watched Tanae from her safe spot on the sand. When Tanae got close to the water, Adia started pointing at her and yelling, "Nae? Nae!"






When her yelling didn't bring Tanae back, she gave up and climbed into DiDi's lap. It was a much safer vantage point and Tanae wasn't near enough to get jealous.




I did eventually take Adia out to the water. She didn't noticed where we were headed at first because she was holding hands with Tanae. We dipped our toes in. Adia seemed fine with it at first, but then decided it was enough. If only the water wasn't so cold. She started throwing a fit and wanted me to pick her up. That led to Tanae wanting me to hold her too. Tanae now weighs almost 26 lbs. I was successfully holding 45lbs of baby!












Tanae started to head for the parking lot so we decided it was time to leave. I packed up everything in the buckets. Adia wanted to help. She put the handle on her arm and off she went.


Adia and Tanae ate some snacks on the grass. Once they were full, we packed up the car again. We were at the beach for a hour and a half and both girls were exhausted. Within a few minutes of getting back in the car, they were asleep. They slept through the transfer again and Adia took a 2 hour nap. Tanae, 3 hours later, is still sleeping. Normally we can't get her to nap, but she was sleep deprived from Adia.