Memorial Day, A Toe-Dipping, & Strep

We packed up Thursday night and headed south to the beach to celebrate a LONG Memorial Day weekend! We got down there really late on Thursday night, but everyone woke up raring to go on Friday morning. We were in the pool by 10:00am! This was Carter's first pool experience since last Labor Day, and he was initially a bit timid and then warmed up quite a bit to the water. He wasn't a fan of taking his swimmies off, though. We could only convince him to do it about twice over the weekend. Oh, well, maybe by the end of the summer. Callen LOVED the water. Instantly. We put her in her float and she leaned back in it, grinned and splashed and kicked. She would stay in until she was a little prune!

Mommy and her babies in the pool

Callen loving the water

Carter being tossed from Uncle Steve to Aunt Emily

After an exhausting swim, Carter loves to enjoy a picnic outside!

While Callen snoozes outside in the pack n play. After her first day in the water, she slept over two hours in that pack-n-play while Carter swam, squealed and we all talked around her!

Carter and Uncle Steve went to see if they could catch some fish. I think Carter is trying to tell Uncle Steve where the fish are.

Looks like he was right. I think they caught two or three fish, and Carter was so excited each time! An added bonus is that we got to see dolphin out in the boat basin every day we were there. Carter LOVED seeing them!

Carter, Callen and Aunt B had a dance party one day during the rain!

Then, on Sunday evening, we took Callen out to the gulf to dip her little toes in the salt water. Unlike, her brother then or now!, she LOVED it. When we dipped Carter's toes, he pulled them immediately up from the water. Callen just put her little feet down like they were meant to be in that sand and surf! Then she would giggle and stomp her feet. It was truly precious! {We had to bribe Carter with ice cream to get him to let Nick pick him up and place his feet in the surf!}

All four of us!

Bamma and Big Pat with their grandbabies. Thanks for a fun weekend at the beach. We are thankful that they don't have to be so far apart anymore!

Oh, yeah. The Strep. Well, I got to feeling bad on Saturday afternoon and was just puny and achy most of the rest of the weekend. Because I had felt bad for so long and Nick was going out of town on Wednesday for four days, I took Tuesday as a sick day and went to the doctor. After a few tests, the diagnosis? You guessed it. Strep. I haven't had strep my whole life...until now. The doctor said the good news is that it takes the guess work out of the treatment--he knew exactly what I needed. So, two shots and two meds later, I am feeling like a whole new woman. Not necessarily how I would have chosen to feel on a holiday weekend, but at least we had a fun weekend at the beach despite it.