Macie's walk back to shore.......

....or at least we tried to get her back to shore. She had other ideas!

Video of Macie at the beach

This was Macie's 1st walk through the water. Once her feet hit the water and it made a real cool spashy sound....she wasn't moving forward. Making the sound was much more fun. Though after being in the water a few minutes and the water started to seep into her shoes, she wasn't too sure she like the cold water in her shoe.

The 1st signs of Spring

On Saturday the 12th of April....we had some wonderful weather. The sun came out and things warmed up to the late teens...a little warmer in-land. So we had a day of working on the yard. We want to put in a garden on the west side of the house, but before we could do that we needed to clean up the scattered brinks all over the place. Some we were half buried in the ground, so they needed to be dug up. Well the few that we saw in the ground turned out to be an oddly place brick patio that was then covered with dirt and grass. So what was suppose to be a few bricks turned into about 200 bricks. So after all that hard work, we thought that we deserved some fun. What we decided to do was get a picnic supper and take it down to Crescent Beach and enjoy the setting sun on a beautiful sunny spring day. This was Macie's 1st real trip to the beach. Last year we only ended up going once due to the move and she was too little to really enjoy it, but this year she will. In fact, she had a blast playing in the water and with the rocks and chasing the dogs that were there.....And of course the rest of the kids love the beach. Addie and Belle are the water babies and have always loved the beach. Nathaniel took a little while to like it....he didn't like the slimmy green rocks or the seaweed everywhere. But that doesn't seam to be a problem now. Looks like summer will be at the beach.

Macie and Ice Cream

Tonight we were at Lola and Tita's for our usual Sunday dinner. For dessert, Lola had sugar ice cream cones with mango ice cream. I made a cone for Addie and she was sharing with Macie. After a few tastes Macie decided that she wanted the cone all to her self, so she up and took it from Addie and then went to sit beside Lola on the stairs to save her from Addie taking the cone back. We tried to get it back by offering Macie a different cone, one with no ice cream, but all she did was put the one she took from Addie under her arm to save it and tried to take the new one so that she would have two cones.....the little turkey.
It was so cute watching Macie eat her 1st ice cream cone. At first she was having trouble getting to the ice cream once the level was below the cone line, but then she notice Addie (now with a new cone) bitting the cone part. She was the happiest little girl eating that cone. I think she found a new love....after chocolate and french fries.