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the kids exploring the beach for the first time. "Pay otter!" (play water.) Ruby would run in and "pay otter, pay otter!" On one half of the beach there was a protected inlet due to rocks...PERFECT for kids...no waves, warmer, shallower.

i love this reaction i captured from max. he just jumped off after holding on and swinging by himself for a long turn. so proud of his efforts. obviously. ha.

When we were walking along the beach on the first day, I spotted a swing and got pretty excited. It became one of the things Max loved to do most. (and us, too! My favorite thing was to hang upside down and swing from my feet, or actually sit on top and hold onto the knots.)

Max was SOO obsessed with boogie boarding. I was a freak though and made him wear a life jacket at all times,
which looked hard for him to lay on his stomach and paddle with a bulgy thing on his chest (kinda cute at times to see though ha ha), but he didn't seem to care and it made for FAR more relaxing beach lounging when you didn't have to keep your eye on him 100% of the time for fear of drowning! It's always a joy seeing your kids have fun and the boy lived it up in the water.