Ahh rest. It is a good thing! Today was a total lazy day for Lehr and I. The fires in wine country have made the Tahoe area quite smoky, and the air quality isn't the greatest. (You can see the picture of the shore appears to be at an ocean because the smoke is thick enough to block the view of the mountains on the other side of the lake.) We used that as an 'excuse' to not exert ourselves outside. We slept in until 8AM and ate breakfast with the kids.
(Eli had been up since 7 or so, but remained somewhat quiet for Grandpa until I got him at 830.) Grandpa and Grandma packed up the car and the kids and went to the beach for the morning. Although Lake Tahoe is quite cold, the weather is awesome, so they had a great time playing in the sand and throwing rocks into the water. My parents planned well and brought some gardening tools for Eli (rake, shovel and hoe), which he loved using on the sandy shore. (Lehr and I stayed home and napped on the back porch in between reading and just hanging out.) The kids are sleeping now, but when they wake up we'll take them to a fairly flat hiking trail across the highway.
I'm sure Eli will find many sticks to carry, and Maddux will pull my hair while she's hanging out in the backpack carrier. Life is good.*Edit: Upon their return from the beach, both kids napped for a good few hours. I heard Maddux playing in her pack-n-play before she fell asleep though. When we got her up, I found out what she'd been so occupied with.
She reached over the side of her bed and pulled at least a dozen of Grandma Cathie's shirts off of their hangers. Then she kept 95% of them in the crib with her. What a goof!
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