Beach, Mostly.

Elias has started taking an interest in books and toys recently, so there's a picture of him with a little book he was given. It has little lights that light up when you press a button, and other than that, it's just a cloth picture book of transportation methods. :)

We took Rebecca to the beach (Elias too, but he slept the whole time in the Moby Wrap). We'd been planning to do so for a few weeks, but both kids caught colds, I got an ear infection, and no one was really up to it for a couple of weeks there, so we waited until much later than we'd intended. However, Rebecca had a really great time, despite being afraid of the waves!

The ocean is like a giant puddle-- great for splashing!

Beach, Flooring, and Cousins

Well, I don't know how many paid attention to the weather around here in mid-November, but we had a very big "nor'easter" combined with the tropical storm "Ida", which caused 30-year historic rainfall! We had flooding all over the place, some places deep enough that cars were entirely covered, and houses were half-filled with water. Thankfully all that happened here was the end of our road got covered in about 1 foot of water, and the ditches all the way along the street were flooded, so driveways were hard to distinguish. No one on our street had indoor flooding though!

So, anyway, because of this, the ocean beaches were difficult to access at the beginning of the week that my parents were here, so we suggested that rather than going to a local beach, the OBX (Outer Banx) might be a better option. After going to the beach there, we thought perhaps a drive down to Cape Hatteras would be nice, turned out the road was flooded out, so they were only opening it for 1 hour of the whole day. We decided we'd go somewhere else, and ended up going to see the park where the Lost Colony was located... until they disappeared mysteriously. It's really an interesting thing, because it's a mystery that they may never find the answer to.


Rebecca thinks it is great fun to climb her stroller. We were waiting for everyone to be ready to go to the OBX at this point.

Lunch break! We'd just entered Kitty Hawk, I think. We stopped to have lunch at the tourist information there.


BEACH! I love the above picture. :)

We found a shovel sitting on the beach, and Rebecca had a great time digging in the sand for a while with it!


One of the things that we did while my parents were here, is floored the living room. Currently I haven't taken any "after" pictures-- I'll have to do that. But, this is before... but after we had the leveler down. Rebecca thought she should help too!

Mooshum helped her chiseling out the lumps...
and then tried to get her to help sanding it smooth...
but she went elsewhere, lol!
Getting ready to lay tiles, I believe, but here's one half of the room.

There's the other half!

And, here's Mara and Rebecca together. :)

Dolphins... and A Few Others

We went out for our anniversary without much of a plan, but decided along the way what we would do. We dropped by Krispy Kreme and got some doughnuts, then we went to watch the dolphins! :-)

Rebecca STILL loves Pepsi cans.

Rebecca got a Krispy Kreme hat! Hats don't stay on her head long, but we did manage to catch this one picture before she started taking it off within seconds.

Here's a picture of Virginia Beach in the summer... any wonder that we don't go down there in the summer?!

On the boat going out to where the dolphins were!


This is the other boat, it travels incredibly fast (as you can see!). We were in a nice tame little boat... that one is more like a joy ride type boat.

And then we found the dolphins!!!

This dolphin did a tail salute thing... they said it is either a sign of friendliness or a sign of agression, so they were going to take it as a sign of friendship, lol.




I didn't realize I'd caught this one, but apparently I caught it blowing out it's blowspout!

Three in a row!

That's all the dolphin pictures I've got to share (I didn't figure you wanted to see all 150 of them!).

Here are a few of Rebecca in her "high chair" that I made for her.

This was her first time in it, and I gave her this little plate of food... she thought it was great, all the food was the perfect size to drop one piece at a time onto the floor. *sigh* :-P (It was peas, carrots, and grated apple)

Justin caught the following three photos. She was making funny faces at him, so he grabbed the camera... and she started hamming it up instead!