Swimming in the summer!!

Finally, really FINALLY, we went to the Cape and actually walked down to the beach.  First time this summer, I know, pathetic right? But, we drove down Sunday morning on a mission: the kids needed water shoes!  Our beach is pretty rocky and I didn't like the idea of the possible shell cutting their feet.  They have their Crocs, but I didn't think they were going to stay on while they were swimming.  I think it took us about an hour to go into 6 stores looking for some.  And we ended up with nothing!  If a store had them, they were way to big for my kids tootsies.  Fail.  But in the process we ended up with a goggles and snorkel set, a boogie board, and these God-awful full body bathing suits with floaty stuff sewn into them.  Mark picked the suits out :) When we got down, we had lunch, flagged down the ice cream truck, and headed down to the beach, Crocs and all.  

We set up shop on the Pocasset river side of the beach, which is a bit safer for the wee one.  (I found out later that this is a big fat LIE after a video was on the news of a damn huge shark was spotted in the river a few days later.  They said it was 14 feet, but a basking shark, which is supposedly harmless, but come on! It's still a shark!)  Anyway, this was Avery's first trip to the beach as a toddler and she had fun.  Well, the second I put her down to play on the shore, she grabbed a fistful of mud and put it straight into her mouth.  So, after that, she had fun.   

Chasing the seagull!

Piggies!

These Puddle Jumpers are the best!  Try them out!

Mimi, Ave, and Papa

After swimming, we took a walk on the bay side, caught some crabs and played around.

 
Hiking over to the other side

  

I'm in a photo!

     

She was so proud to be up on the rocks!

 Hunting for crabs

Oh and did I mention Cam is like, the pro bike rider now?  This year he can reach the peddles no problem and knows how to do the breaks and what not.  Our road is really quiet so I only get a little neurotic when cars come.  He loves riding his bike though, mom screaming "car, car... CAR!" or not.  

Vrooom!

So that was that!  A major success for bringing the kids to the beach, both as walkers.  No running off in opposite directions, no dropping the beloved sippies into the sticky sand and no sunburns!!  Hey, it went so well, we just may go back ;)

And we were spent!!