Buckets, bowling, burying, boulder hopping boats and boys

This goes some way to summarising our day, well, morning at the beach.

We met up with my girlfriend and her 2 daughters, aged 9 and 5. The kids have all known each other since they were babies and always have a great time together.

It was a lovely sunny day with a forecast top of 28C, and an offshore breeze. We have a whole metropolitan coastline choose from, so we chose something a little away from the usual “hot spots”. On the way there, we noticed a boat in the marina, probably aptly name “She Got The House” – I wish I’d taken a pic!

The tide was on the way out, there was plenty of sand and more shells, many intact, than you’d usually see. Ahhh, perfect!

We set up our beach shelter that we bought 2 summers ago and hadn’t yet used and settled in.

DH set up some sandcastle “pins” which the kids took to with great gusto, trying to knock them down with fashioned “balls” of sand.

The rock sea wall was a huge attraction with kids clambering all over it trying to find their way up and down. There were plenty of kings and queens of the castle!

Burying the legs became a popular game and we had some “mermaids” stranded on the beach.

I don’t think there was anything the kids didn’t like. They weren’t too happy to leave, except for the bribe of takeaway for lunch and at that stage, their food/energy gauges were bouncing on empty – oh the boys and their stomachs!

So we packed up and headed off.

Now to get the sand out of everything. Boy I hate the beach, well to be honest, sand! It gets everywhere.


Thursday 7 October 2004

CMF3 - Day 16

Took the boys out shopping and they were completely possessed, wouldn’t listen, would not do as they were asked – the kids from hell! Bought them skinny dogs from Wendy’s for lunch and we ate them in the park. The boys weren’t impressed when I said they couldn’t play there as it was WAY past rest time.

I took H out while J was asleep and he was very well behaved.

Told the boys that if they were well behaved, they would get a surprise tomorrow.

I cleaned H’s school sandals as I think he might get this term out of them, with luck.

I’m very tired as I haven’t had any daytime rests for a while.