Friday night we went to the beach! Jacob has decided lately that he doesn't want an afternoon sleep (but he really should) so of course at 4o'clock on the way fell asleep! He was completely out to it, didn't even stir when Al put sunscreen on him. Bit of a bugger really! Seeing it was so stinking hot we couldn't leave him there and wait so got him out and he was very sooky and grumpy. We had a paddle (Jacob didn't, he was a bit freaked out and wouldn't let go of Al's neck) but was rather lovely. Sam liked dangling his feet in until the water splashed his nappy - wasn't too keen after that! So that was Sam's first trip to the beach. We then went back to the car and got the prams and went for a walk and got fish&chips and sat on the grass outside the Grand and ate it. Jacob enjoyed it and Sam slept. And of course we followed it up with icecream!
Then saturday when it was still stinking hot we filled the clam up and the boys had a bit of a splash. Sam certainly liked that and looked so cute in his jock bathers! Jacob wasn't quite so sure (and his only bathers are size 1 (i'm pretty sure he's getting a UV top for christmas) so he warmed up to it more once he was in the half nicky noo nar). Sam loves kicking and splashing in the bath so we weren't surprised he enjoyed it, and we encouraged Jacob to 'kick like Sam' and that seemed to work. He is still a bit (or very) tentative so we'll need to keep encouraging him and giving him opportunities to get used to the water. Good times!
2 comments:
Yay swimming :) Those pictures are so cute! Can you remember the first time Michael went swimming at the beach Heth? You came with us, and he cried when the sand moved under his feet!
You are very good parents for keeping the kids covered up too.
Yummo icecream and fish and chips, nothing better than a summer's day down the beach :)
Might be a good time to start the boys on swimming lessons.
Michael used to have a big fear of water, but now he is a water baby. He had swimming at school everyday last week, then he had his swimming lessons on saturday morning, followed by a pool party on saturday afternoon!
Us? Putting in a pool? I wish. I don't think those trucks and diggers at Heths would do us any good - we'd need a bit of dynamite to get into the rock... unless we went above ground and built up a deck around it, up where the swing is... nah, naver even considered it really ;-)
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