Beach Day!

AK and I took the day off of school / work today as a friend of mine was coming in on a cruise ship for the day. It almost felt like we were playing hooky by going to the beach!

We were up at the usual time, but took it easy, took our time waking up today! We ran a few errands before heading downtown, AK helped me mail my Christmas cards at the post office. If you were wondering, you will be receiving your Christmas card VERY late this year!!!

We met my friend and her family downtown (there was her, her husband, her little boy 4yo and her little girl 2yo) and we headed down to Public Beach. Cindy also met us with Molly and Jake. We played in the water, on the sand, on the playground, had some food and drinks - our usual day at the beach! AK is really taking a liking to Baby Jake and to Molly.

We dropped the cruise shippers off downtown, and headed home. AK was so tired she fell asleep in the car. She napped for another couple of hours, at least, when we got home. As she has locked herself in her room twice over the weekend, I left her door open a bit and it was lovely to have her come out of her room and find me in the living room with her sleepy eyes. (Aside - luckily the door knobs are the kind you can pop the lock open using a bobby pin. Still scary times for me though! I need to find something that will keep AK from pushing the lock in, as she's still a wee bit too wee to successfully open the door when she tries)

My worst fears have been realized - when I attempt to sing along with AK, she stops singing, puts her finger to her mouth and says "sssssssss, mommy be quiet!" (she can't quite do shhh yet). So she either wants to be the center of attention or she doesn't like my singing. I'm guessing it's the latter...

My company today asked if I wanted anything from Canada so I asked for some mini Coffee Crisp bars. They told me a sad story of their luggage getting lost, but one bag was delivered to the ship this morning... unfortunate the CC were in the other bag! Oh well! I'd have gladly given up the chocolate bars for them to have both bags back!

Last night was a late night for AK. I was invited for supper at Cindy and Brent's but wasn't able to put AK down to sleep there before we had supper so by the time we finished supper and I looked at the clock, it was 9pm! AK and Molly were pretty happy playing and watching Christmas movies though. I am still wondering when a late night = a sleep-in the next morning!

AK is asking about her little friends - wondering where Hunter, Matthew and Gracelyn are. She knows that they are in the snow and the cold. AK and I watched a video of Matthew playing in the snow this morning - funny stuff - and AK told me "I like the snow!". xo