Beach week with our grandparents :)

On Monday we got back from a week in North Carolina with Grandma, Grandpa, and Nana. Everyone had a great time! We all enjoyed the beach and pool. Matt & I enjoyed a few dates out to lunch and golfing. Anna & Abby had an especially fun time just playing around the house with their grandparents. Anna especially enjoyed playing hide-and-seek and playing with everything associated with going to the doctor (a Dora doctor book from Nana, a new doctor's kit from Grandpa, and a couple doctor figures that Grandma borrowed from a friend.)

Anna also proved to be quite a big girl this week, helping out a couple times. On the car ride down we left early in the morning - hoping both girls would go back to sleep. When Abby went back to sleep and Anna didn't, Anna helped out by staying quiet for over an hour! Finally she asked me a few questions. I said, "let's try to be quiet for a little while longer so Abby can sleep. She said, "I, I, I can't do it," in a voice filled with effort, but hoping not to disappoint me. I realized how hard she had to work to be so good - what a big girl. She also proved to be quite helpful to Nana & Grandma one day while they were taking care of Anna & Abby while Matt, Grandpa, and I went golfing. She brought toys to Abby on multiple occasions, explaining to Nana and Grandma, "I'm here to help!" She's getting to be so big sometimes I can barely believe it!

Here are a few highlights from the week:

Anna loved the "big waves" - especially when Daddy held her in them.

A fun trip to the pool where Anna & Abby had fun playing together :) Mommy held Abby while Daddy held Anna and we did "zooms" all over the pool.

Working on Anna's "shell pit"- a pool of water near the ocean that we built each day for storing collected shells and just chillin' out

Looks like someone else is going to like fruit as much as her big sister :)

Out to lunch in Southport :)

Despite what the picture portrays, both girls really had a good time at the restaurant!

The following pictures illustrate which of our girls is a little more amenable to posing for the camera right now:

Thanks for a great week, Grandma, Grandpa, & Nana! We feel well rested and ready to start our fall!