It took us a while to pack. It turns out that 50 pounds of children need to carry with them 80 pounds of crap. Because, the world will end if our giant stuffed panda doesn’t accompany us to the vacation spot.

Once we got all our gear down there, we spent most of each day down at the beach.

At the beginning of the week, Sadie was pretty scared of the water, so we spent most of the time up on the beach, often playing with the frisbee.

And then, often chasing the runaway frisbee down the beach.

Later in the week, we got up the nerve to walk out on the flats at low tide.

That’s pretty exhausting, so it’s good that were always smart enough to pack a snack.

Sadie then worked up the nerve to get into the water.

It’s kinda fun playing in the water. All sorts of interesting seaweed.

Splashing Daddy is serious work.

When we were done with beach, Sadie had a great time playing around the cottage.

Everything’s more fun with a pink balloon.

Sadie did a lot of work with the spelling games — Boggle and Upwords. She likes asking us how to spell out words and then putting them out on the board. Lucy didn’t quite see the point.

Lots of fun.

She can’t wait until next year.

And, this was a tweak gone awry. I was playing in Photoshop cropping on the pictures, and I somehow managed to do something weird with the output. Anyway, I like it. It kinda looks like a painting. (It’s the same picture as the first one in this entry)

I have a couple of videos I should be able to put up later this week or next weekend.

We went down the cape for a few days earlier this month. This was our first real trip with both of the children, and we survived, so that’s a good thing. Lucy didn’t really understand what was going on — it was more of the same for her.

When we got down there, we took a quick trip down to the beach to introduce Lucy to the joy of Cape Cod Bay. She was excited to try out her new sunhat.

We also worked to introduce her to some of the local wildlife. Here she is trying to roll away from a rogue lobster.

Lucy is trying to work on her sitting up and balancing. She was practicing in her exersaucer.

And in her boppy…

And on the couch…

We had her working on her tummy time, trying to improve the neck strength.

She enjoyed playing with Sadie’s baby doll, Unc.

And, by playing with, of course, I mean eating.

And mostly, she was being a sweet little baby.

Sadie’s pictures are coming soon.

Sadie wasn’t feeling great yesterday, so we keep her out of school for an unplanned “Daddy and Sadie’s Day of Fun.” We ended up outside with a good round of playing with the bubbles in the haze.

Ok, so it’s less haze, and more my cropping tightly a picture I took from fifteen feet away with the camera on my phone. It’s like an impressionist painting of a little girl blowing bubbles.