Beach Buddies!

This past weekend we had our first chance to slip away to the beach house with a couple of friends for the weekend since Ike hit. It was crazy to see how destroyed the island still was, but I know it had to look better than it did those first couple of months! Driving down Bob Smith in Jamaica Beach there were sooooo many houses with sagging decks, caved in roofs, some were even crumbled to the ground. My father-in-law's beach house is in recovery mode and was fully functional, but it just didn't look the same (yet, that is....contractor is at work!) Anyways- our friends from church, Jared and Amanda and daughter Peyton who is a few months older than Lorelai came with us and it was SO cute to see the girls play together! Peyton is SOOOOO energetic (seriously Amanda....how do you do it???) Lorelai has her crazy moments and is quite a quirky child, but energetic she is not! She would just stand there watching Peyton run around and smile at her- free entertainment! Peyton loooooooved "WorWie" (Lorelai) and Lorelai loooooooved PeyPey. At one point, Amanda and I were cooking in the kitchen and looked over to see the girls just standing there in a hug, looking out the window. Priceless. (No, I didn't get a pic- these kids are fast. I did get a hug picture at the beach, though!) At one point, the girls were eating snacks and Peyton decided she wanted to sample some of what Lorelai was eating. Lorelai is pretty possessive of her food and has learned to defend herself from the dogs trying to eat food out of her hands....and so she spent most of the rest of the weekend, very authoratively telling Peyton "no! No! NO!" It was cute. We did manage to run down to the beach for a couple of hours Saturday in between passing rainclouds.







*Friends*


"You tell anyone about this- let's just say, I'll have my people take care of you."

Sweet little Peyton


This was the first beach trip Lorelai has ever been on that did NOT involve an ear infection (twice last summer...) and she loved every minute of it! Shawn and I swam out knee-deep with her and played in the waves- she would laugh and laugh when the waves crashed in front of her, and as soon as that wave was gone- she would do her sign language and say "more? more? more?" It was SO cute. My little beach babe!