Peanut had to get her 5 year old booster shots. I wanted to prepare her so we'd been talking about getting the shots for over a week and how we would act when we got there but she was still pretty nervous. Although she was all silliness and smiles while we were waiting for the doctor to come in the room. :P
We read all five of the books we'd brought so she wanted her picture taken. Fish lips!
Silly girl!
She jumped up and ran to my lap any time she heard a noise in the hall though. I told her she could get ice cream if she was brave, meaning if she didn't hide from the nurses (yes I know her MO) and didn't scream after/during the shot. She negotiated for three flavors of ice cream which I agreed to if she was brave.
She ended up getting one flavor. :P She squirmed and fussed and tried to hide so the second nurse had to help me hold her still for the first shot instead of being able to do two at once. Her face was so funny after it went in, she looked down at the needle in her arm and said, "Oh." Like, "that's it??" so then she sat perfectly still and they were able to do the 2nd and 3rd shots at the same time.
This is her "brave" girl pose.
She weighed in at 41.2 pounds and is 42.25 inches tall which is the 50% for both height and weight. I actually got a shot too while we were there...tetanus since I hadn't had one in 12 years and we work with rusty nails/metal about 5 times a week. :P I was surprised at how much the shot itself didn't hurt, but how sore my arm was the next few days! At least we could commiserate together since she had her tetanus booster, we were sore together. :P
I love how Peaches gets a book and then backs up into someone's lap to read it. Daddy had just clipped her nails so she was in just her diaper and wanting him to read to her. :)
My big helper! This girl is always helping me in the kitchen and around the house!
Noni had to have a picture for school of reading books with stuffed animals so the girls joined in the fun.
Peanut doing crafts with the birthday presents she got from Aunt M and Uncle B.
Sweet sisters!
I had to clean out a bunch of blown insulation out of the space above our porch one day so I suited up. T thought I looked funny and made me take a picture. Captain Dust Mask! Haha!
One of the things on our "must do" list when we went to Oregon was to go to the beach. The cousins live about an hour and a half away so we packed up on Saturday after breakfast and hit the road.
We went to a "local" beach that was a lot less crowded than the popular tourist spots. To get to it you had to go through a tunnel under the road and then through a tunnel of trees.
What I found so interesting was how wide the expanse of sand was! And how abruptly it ended into foliage and the road. There were huge dunes that made walking through it interesting.
At their house it had been up to 100 but at the coast it was only in the low 80's. Another fascinating thing was the drastic temperature difference between the beach and the water line. You could literally feel the temperature drop as we walked closer to the water. It felt like a ten degree difference in a matter of 50 feet!
The girls only ocean experience has been in the Florida gulf with warm water. They wanted in their swimsuits, but I think it was quite a shock when they actually felt the water!
Retreat, retreat!
You can see the shock in Peaches face...haha!
She quickly hightailed it for the shore!
Where she started making some sand leggings for herself.
She kept grabbing handfuls of sand and smearing them up and down her legs. I really think she was trying to warm herself up!
Bug and Boo still got their swimsuits on even though it was so freezing.
I finally got brave enough to wade in and was truly shocked at how cold it was. It felt like ice water. My feet literally started aching from cold after being in it just a few minutes.
But the kids would warm up on the sand and then dart back in for a few minutes.
So fun to be there with the cousins!
Cutie girls!
Boo fell backwards and was gasping from the cold water.
These pictures do not do this place justice. It was so beautiful there and in the background (above Bug's head) was a really cool lighthouse sticking out on the rocks.
Daddy found some kind of...sand crab? They were weird little creatures that were buried in the sand.
If you grabbed a big handful of sand and flipped it over you could get about five of them out. It was kind of creepy to realize how many of them were just under our feet and we didn't even know it!
It was cool to watch them tunnel back into the sand as quickly as they could.
Time out for a family picture!
Daddy took Peanut on a shell hunt while K, S, and E took turns burying each other.
Then Daddy, Boo, Peanut, and I went on another shell hunt while I carried Peaches trying to get her to sleep. Thankfully she did fall asleep even though it was super windy. I wrapped a beach towel around both of us and after walking around for a while I was able to ease down into a beach chair and get her a short nap. Once we got back Bug wanted to go on a shell hunt so Daddy took her too...he ended up walking the beaches for 2 hours and had sore feet by the end of the night!
Cousin fun!
When it was time to go we were all carrying things so Cousin E, without being asked, walked Peaches back, alternating between holding her hand and carrying her. So sweet!
After getting the sand off as best as we could we hopped in the car and drove a short way down the beach to the Newport docks.
We watched a boat come in that had been out fishing.
It must have been a fishing tour because the people getting off the boats were taking their fish over to be cleaned by the professionals who were so fast at getting the meat off the scales/bones.
Then we had dinner at Mo's. It was a fun place, and a tradition that they always go there when they go to the beach. We were proud of Buggy for trying fish and the kids all got shark toys on their water glasses.
Which Peaches was quite perplexed by. She kept looking into his mouth like, "Dude, where's your insides?"
After dinner we walked down to a pier to check out the wild sea lions. They were so funny and SO loud! Peanut said, "Mommy! It sounds like they're burping!"
They were so funny to watch!
It's hard to tell but there were probably hundreds of them on this pile of rocks!
The dads headed to get the cars while the rest of us kept walking down the boardwalk to check out the boats. Some were just coming in from their day of fishing, and it was really neat to see all the different kinds.
Such an awesome trip with wonderful new memories made. We had a great time!!!
