Monday. The weather app on my phone estimated Seaside being 76 degrees. It is hardly ever that hot there, even in the middle of August, so I made a plan and went for it. The place was packed. Even with it being a Monday and school still being in session. There was zero parking in the parking lot but we were able to get a spot not too far. Which was important, because we needed the bathrooms!
Between getting everyone ready and off to school yesterday - it was a crazy little bit.
7:30 - Took D to school. Hustled back and threw together the suits, beach blanket, water bottles and got everyone else dressed and hair done-did. Grabbed up some snacks that I already had at the house and loaded up the car.
8:30 - Took Alaska to school.
8:45 - Hustled through Walmart for a few necessities. D has been needing a swim suit that fits rather than wearing Alaska's and C was coming with us and I didn't bother asking for a suit. Just picked up one for her, knowing that her and D wear the same size, and we would hang out to it and still get use out of it. Two suits down, headed over to get a camping chair for my own pregnant self and passed through and got some cookies and pretzels for the ride.
9:50 - Dropped E and Talmage off with a friend at dance class. We've been doing this toddler dance class for the last two months and when E joined our family I enrolled her, even though she doesn't fit the toddler requirement. It's just what happens when you're not in school - you do everything mom does. And she's been doing great. She's small enough, too, that she doesn't even stick out all that much.
10:00 - Made it to an ESD appointment for E. She qualified for services for speech articulation. And everyone was all puzzled about it. As if. She's hard to understand because she skips a lot of sounds in a word. But they went ahead and put her in for a 4 week summer program of a hour a week and will make her up an IEP to start kindergarten with.
10:30 - Meeting was over so I jetted over to the library to pick up a couple of audio books for our 2 hour drive.
11:00 - the start of picking everyone up from schools. Alaska from preschool, D from elementary, C from head start. Hauled everyone in to head start to use the bathroom before heading out and we were finally leaving town at 11:40.
12:10 - Picked up my mom from school and then did another bathroom break at 12:30 in Clatskanie since the kids had eaten snacky lunches in the car with juices. Needed to empty those bladders out as much as possible!
We arrived at the beach! Played for a long, long time. I got so super burnt that today I have had to wobble around because the skin on my legs and feet are so sensitive. I just got so busy! Thought we would get back to the blanket sooner than we did. Those girls are all wave chasers. Talmage and D were wave runners and stayed with Nana the whole time, running from the waves. The tide was super far out and there were tons and tons of sand fleas for the girls to look at and there was even a crab that got washed up to us. Talmage was hilarious and jumped mid-air into Nana's arms. It was terrifying and cool at the same time.
We spent most of our time at the water. The trek back to the blanket was a far one, given that the tide was so low. We went back once for snacks and drinks and the rest of it all was spent shell collecting and wallowing in the water. Perfect day. The temperature and the wind were all just at the right everything.
It took us an hour from leaving the water to getting the car turned on to go home. The walk back on the sand was punctuated by a stop at the water spigot where we then continued on our way back to the parking lot and to the bathrooms where everyone had a turn filing through.
The ride home was just as loud and full of energy as the way there. Which never happens. Usually kids are wiped out. Having C in the mix really made our car a loud place and even though no one was talking to her, she just loves to hear herself talk to herself, make noise, sing, whatever. I had to use our voice thermometer technique a few times on her because I couldn't even hear my mom sitting across from me in the front seat and C was in the far back!
We had a close call when we were getting dinner. Talmage announced he needed to poop, and it was an emergency. The DQ was right there, thank goodness, but turns out a) they didn't have a bathroom inside and b) there was no drive-through. So I dropped Nana and Talmage off and then had to park and left the girls in the car listening to the audio book Little House on the Prairie.
One more emergency pull over - thank goodness it was a quick exit at the John Day day park and off we went again.
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