The kids were up early again, but not quite as early as yesterday. We had a great breakfast of Dutch Babies (oh so yummy) before heading to the beach this morning. Since Maddux is still skittish, I took her on a walk or two away from the crowd. I would hold her hand, or kneel and hold her, but I refused to lift her up in my arms. 
I wanted to show her that she was still safe...what happened was a fluke. She had moments of really loving it, but then she'd start to whine again ten minutes later. It's a process......Eli, on the other hand, is still LOVING the beach. He jumps over waves, into waves, and through waves. He does it all along the shallow side of the wave crashes, but he is in the water nonetheless. Both kids love making drip castles, though. Maddux spent most of her time with me creating castles, and Eli got really into filling the buckets up with sand and water.
As usual, after a few hours we migrated up to the pool. Maddie is fearless there....hanging around the entry steps and jumping 'backwards' into three-foot-deep water and swimming. Every time she does this, she goes under water. Yet the ocean at ankle-depth scares her....
We went back to the house for a quick lunch before putting the kids down. Eli went to sleep right away today...no need to even try and convince him.
After they woke up we bid Tom & Megan 'good-bye' before heading out to a nearby field to play baseball and bocce ball. Eli and Cooper raced up and down the field and played with the daddies. Maddux and Finley alternated walking around Carissa and I and playing with the boys. The quote of the day from Maddie came when the girls were playing near some bushes. Maddux found some leaves and called them 'flowers', as usual. She then brought a fist full to Mr. Malone and asked him to 'make her pockets work'. Translation: she wanted to open her pockets to put the leaves inside.
We prepared another quick dinner for the kids and put them to bed on the early side. Since they're getting up with the sun, we might as well put them down with it too, right?
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