toms mom came for a visit last week...the girls had a great time playing with her, i enjoyed watching someone else take their orders...halle and kiera are spoiled by me and tom and demand to be played with non-stop....karen and them played games, did puzzles, barbies, swimming, shopping, hide and seek and more!!
last week tom had a work conference in Hilton Head, SC...we tagged along and had a great time....but felt guilty the whole time for having so much fun while tom sat in conferences all day....our hotel was right on the coast...it was a sooo relaxing and fun, we would swim, then play on the beach, then swim in the pool, then the girls would beg for a nap...and then we'd play some more after naps...the girls loved the beach, we brought home a bucket full of sanddollars to bleach and a starfish...and 3 crabs in shells, but they died... it was fun to have a pet in the hotel room and the girls loved "feeding" the crabs all sorts of snacks...kiera was fearless of the waves, after getting knocked over a few times, she realized that when you see them coming you have to get in a football stance, steady yourself and let it hit you, she got good at keeping her balance....there were little waves so with wings on the girls, I could go out into the ocean and swim with them...tom wasn't with us a lot and i was paranoid about staying together so i didn't get any pictures of us in the water....oh well, we'll be back to the coast soon enough! we spent a ton of time in the pool...halle taught herself how to swim and is really good at it! I asked her a few weeks ago when we started going swimming if i could teach her how to swim...she would have had to swallow her pride to ask me for help, so she just swore that she already knew how to swim...after watching the other kids at the pool, she has gotten really good and after just a few weeks can swim about 6 ft to the edge and then back to me...if she swims underwater she goes fast, but she loves to dog paddle , too...i'm impressed and i know she loves to figure things out without my help, so she's pretty happy with herself...she loves to practices over and over again and we have been swimming for 2/3 hours a day, almost everyday...its a lot of fun....kiera wears wings and can swim all over the pool by herself...she loves the kid area to run around and loves to float on her back or belly...
the girls favorite part of swimming is jumping in together, halle does really good at popping up and swimming to me, kiera jumps in with wings and goes completly under and pops up with a big smile on her face....it surprised people to see her be so fearless, and people kept asking me how old she was...
we got home last night, it was a really fun trip...
~halle, "mama, that outfit on kiera is the cutest thing i've ever seen on her!" (referring to one of kiera's really cute outfits)
~kiera in the elevator at the hotel, when it was full, a few times, shouted "hi, people"
~when the waiter came to our table, what can i get you to drink? kiera, "i want water, please"
~tom asked halle if he could have a princess lamp like hers. halle, 'daddy, i'll get you a star wars lamp for your birthday"
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