Beatrice Wishes America a Happy Birthday

We had a great 4th of July weekend. If I wasn't such a deadbeat I'd have photos to share. There Here some highlights and lowlights.

Let's get the bad out of the way:

Pulling up to the beach and realizing that I'd packed everything but Theo's bathing suit. Oops.

Pulling back the shower curtain, jumping in (sans contacts so I was basically legally blind) to find a garter snake waiting for me. WTF?!? My brave husband removed it and humanely disposed of it in the yard. He used one of these. Why does he have that laying around the house you ask... obviously for garter snake removal.

Some highlights include:

Beatrice discussing what kind of cake "America" will have at her party.

Watching Beatrice play with all her little buddies. She is at the perfect age now to play with her friends without needing constant adult interaction.

Watching Theo crawl along the wet sand, covering himself in the mud-like grit. He loved it.

Dunking Beatrice and Theo under water. They both wanted to do it over and over, in the pool and the ocean. We have some water babies on our hands.

Beer

Ice cream

Hope you all had a good weekend.

Summer should only be made up of sunny long weekends.