The beach again

9/20/10 - Adam and I went back to the beach with my parents this week.  He did fabulous in the car again with only one major meltdown around 9pm because, well, he was tired and tired of sitting in his car seat. He fell asleep a minute after the meltdown and stayed asleep until 6am.  He wanted to go see the beach this morning. I thought we would go take a walk but he got his feet wet and decided he wanted to go back to the house.  We all went back down to the beach around 2:30.  For some reason, Adam didn't want anyone to go in the water.  We were standing on the shore (is that the right word?) and he would come screaming "Don't go in the water!!!".  He even tried to drag my mom on her chair out of the water.  It was pretty darn funny!  I finally got him to start playing with the mushy sand as the tide came in and pretty soon we were jumping waves and he was fine.  He also met a little boy named Jacob (who's 4) that he befriended.  They played pirates finding treasure.

9/22/10 - Southport - Today we went to SouthPort.  We ate lunch at the Provision Company (which I thought was just a bait shop at first) and Adam did SUPER!  We sat at a table that was by the "window" so we could see any boats coming or going.  Then we walked around town a little.  We went to this crazy Christmas shop that has big Mr. & Mrs. Claus dolls in bed upstairs but also has a bunch of puzzles up there too (and Adam LOVES him some puzzles!). Bumma got him a large aquarium puzzle that he loves to do next to his large fire engine puzzle that Grandma got him.  While we were waiting for my mom to check out, we waited outside with my dad.  Adam spotted a little girl with an ice cream cone.  I'm not sure if he was more interested in her or the ice cream but he kept following her around until I finally picked him up to go.  She seemed a little freaked out (I don't blame her) but at least her dad thought it was amusing.  We went to a couple other shops, walked to the park by the water, then went back to the beach house.  Adam wanted to go on more "adventures" but we were all ready to go home.

9/23/10 - Myrtle Beach - We went to the land of crazy mini-golf courses today.  Well, we drove by a lot of them on our way to Barefoot Landing but we didn't stop and play.  Barefoot Landing is just another collection of shops but Adam's favorite thing to do was chase pigeons.  He also got to feed some fish and a turtle and ride his first carousel.  He saw an ice cream place and really wanted some milk when we were about to leave.  We stopped by a pizza place to possibly have lunch but they didn't have milk.  Instead, Adam sat at the bar and chatted with the bartender over a beer.  We ended up having to go all the way back to the ice cream place because no one else had milk!  Oh, and they have a Christmas store there that Adam started looking for puzzles in. He even went looking for stairs since he remembered they were upstairs at the other place.

Next, we went to Broadway at the Beach which is yet another collection of shops.  They also had a cool little arcade where Adam got to play Skee Ball.  There is an aquarium there that he really wanted to go to but it was super expensive. He still had fun running from store to store and playing on the little playground there.

We stopped for dinner in Calabash, NC.  They have a big Christmas store there too! What's with all the Christmas stores?

Bumma and Adam with the 2 Jacobs in the background 

9/24/10 - Beach - Today we went for our morning walk in which Adam insisted on putting his swim suit on for.  He spent the entire week avoiding the water on our walks but today we walked in it the whole time.  We came back to the house for a little bit and went back out at 10:30am.  Mom had bought Adam a little hippo floatee that he loved and the water was soo calm today that he really enjoyed being out in the deep with me.  His friend Jacob came out and Adam got really excited so we had to go see him.  Jacob was not in a sharing mood and kept getting mad at Adam.  At one point, J's dad dug him a hole and he did not want Adam in it.  He wanted to try to fill it up with water.  With bucket of water in hand, and Adam not moving from the hole, he threw the bucket of water in Adam's face.  I couldn't help laughing! He ended up getting a time out and Adam and I tried to stay away.  Jacob came back over by us when Big Jacob (he's probably 5) came out.  He still didn't want to have anything to do with Adam...I guess he realized Adam was younger and that hanging out with bigger kids is more fun? Big J didn't mind Adam and even tried to help him in the water  We stayed out until around 2:30.  Great last day!

9/25/10 - Long drive home!  We stopped at a couple of farm markets (in Fancy Gap, I believe) where they had some big pumpkins among other produce.  We got home at 11pm.  Adam was happy to see Dave (even though he said he didn't miss him all week) and stayed up until  1am showing Dave all the things he didn't play with at the beach.