Nine Things I Learned on Vacation

1. Led Zeppelin's Ramble On makes a reference to The Lord of the Rings. How did I never hear this before?

2. My oldest child can swim. Officially. She swims well enough that we feel comfortable sitting on the edge of the deep end of the pool while she's in it.

Before swim lessons - with floaties and hanging on the steps.
Georgia is the best swimmer of us all.

A month later - jumping into the deep end. No more floaties.

3. The Man Cub will roll in the sand until he's completely covered in it, but he cannot abide sand gloves.

Juke and Lake, playing in the sand.

Even Ella rolled in the sand.

4. Little boys are so compelled to kick down sand castles that they will meltdown into fits of tears until you finally let them.

Pre-kicking. 

5. Looking for shells never gets old.

6. They actually DO close the pool when a kid poops in there. (It wasn't one of our kids. Thankfully.)

7. Just when I think Luke's tan can't get any darker, it does. A stranger asked us if he was Indian, and even Dave commented that he might have been switched at birth. And, next to the lot of them, with a week's worth of beach tan, I still look like I just stepped out of the month of January.

He was fearless in the surf.

She has a pretty sweet tan, too.

8. Plastic bananas and California Raisins catch the wind and land in approximately the same location when thrown off of a 6th floor balcony, despite the difference in size and weight.

9. My children still adjust their bodies and sleep cycles to match each other when they sleep together.

The flash woke them enough that they both rolled the other way at the same time.