Should I start at the most recent and work my way back? Or start where I left off and work my way up?
I'll only be able to write about the things I was smart enough to take pics of, b/c I won't remember anything else :( Luckily I carry my camera with me everywhere!
August 25th
This was at the Valley Fair Shopping Center in San Jose. We had a heat wave, which is hilarious b/c it was the coldest summer in 40 years, then all of a sudden at the end it gets hot! To escape the heat, the young moms in my ward went to the beach. I neglected to take pics, but we had a BLASTITY BLAST BLAST BLAST. Lily loves exploring sand, watching it pour through her fingers, tasting it (but she doesn't eat much of it so I don't bother trying to stop her....I think making a big deal out of it would do just that, make a big deal out of it and end up making her eat more), swishing it with her hands, squishing it with her fingers, kicking her feet in it, etc etc etc. Add a big bucket of water to the mix and you've got hours (literally) of entertainment! Jack liked to make the perfect mix of sand and water in a bucket that would look like sand but really be water to the touch, and drag any object tied on the end of a string through the sand and watch the trail it made, and drag same object through the little creek that emptied into the ocean and watch it get carried away by the flow of the creek and watch it be pulled back by the string. I could hardly compete with that string for his attention; he only stopped to eat b/c I repeatedly demanded that he do so, and he was the first of all the kids to be back up and playing. I had fun chatting with the other moms, and playing with my kids in the sand and surf. I sat with Lily in my lap and let the surf wash over us a few times, and had the high honor of getting to watch her face as the cold water washed up to her chest and back down again. I tried to convince Jack to come join us, but he was absolutely not interested. He was way too busy with his string :D I love watching his intense focus when he's doing string physics (as I like to call it...). He is MY son. (I guess he's Tim's, too, but I don't know Tim's childhood quite as well as I know mine!)
Anyway, those silly ladies made beach trips twice during the heat waves, and both times they went in the morning. Morning-time is the nice, cool time, the time that our home was actually bearable! It was evening-time that it was too hot to live in, so we just went straight to the mall from the beach. It was a pretty nice mall, with a play area as good as some of the ones around Dallas, but the best parts were the family lounges. Rooms with play tables and magazines and soft chairs, and booths with curtains for private nursing, and changing tables and sinks for washing hands. But my kids preferred for whatever reason to be out in the fray, battling the crowds to explore the mall. I was glad to get to go home, even if it was hot :P
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