Memorial Day Weekend

Yes, I know, Memorial Day photos posted near the end of June? But I'm sure I'll be forgiven since I'm posting a few photos of our adventures... We had a fun weekend going down the shore to LBI. Mom Mom and Pop Pop were watching Molly for the weekend and Kevin, Tina and the boys also came down. Kristy, Chip and Cole were away at some traveling sports tournament for Cole. I forget if it was soccer or baseball - he plays both so I have a hard time keeping track not being into sports (besides hockey!). It was relaxing and we were excited to be down the shore - we're very lucky!

It was a gorgeous weekend and we went to LBI where we hit the bathing beach to try out our boogie boarding skills. Madeline spent most of the time searching for jellyfish. Not in a good way, for some reason she was overly afraid of them. Last year she wanted to pick them all up and had a much more curious approach - don't know how that turned into being afraid. I'm guessing it has something to do with school - she "learns" so much stuff from her friends that we soon try to unlearn at home *chuckle*

Here you can see Mom Mom letting Molly get sunburned *teasing* I think she has now successfully sunburned almost all of her grand kids at one time or another *laugh* She felt SOOOOOO bad.


We also spent time on the big beach (ocean beach, instead of bay beach). There was lots of playing with cousins this weekend which was a lot of fun for Madeline. I just find it funny that out of the whole beach - they all cram into this one spot to all play together.

Madeline still can not swim on her own...she is a sinker. She loves the water and loves to go swimming but she asks to wear her life jacket when we're at the big beach (it protects her from the big waves apparently) - Molly is here being very motherly towards Madeline. Which they both love - Molly being the mom and Maddie being babied by Molly.

There was lots of wave jumping and splashing. The water was still a little too cold for the grown ups to go in any further than the water's edge.


And, no they are not staring in awe of the ocean...They are all standing on boogie boards waiting for a wave to "surf"


The last day was a tad cooler, but we still found fun stuff to do, such as flying her kite at the playground.

Hope to be back down the shore soon!