Becki and I took our boys out to Grand Haven for the day. It was a cloudy day but it was also perfect. It was warm enough to be comfortable but the sun wasn't beating down on the sand to make it too hot to walk on.
Ben & Noah had never even set eyes on Lake Michigan before and it was fun to see their reaction. The water was a bit cold for me and Noah but Ben & Alex had a great time swimming and playing in the waves.
I was always afraid to take my boys to the beach because I'm terrified of them getting sucked into the undertow. But they did fine and I am all ready to try again. I wanted to go today but I don't know that Mike is ready for it with his boot. I'll keep working on him.
Noah let Mike pull his tooth last night. The tooth fairy must have come fairly early because around 1:45am I heard someone coming out of the boys room. I figured it was Ben or Noah going to the bathroom but then I heard someone in the kitchen. I knew it was one of them getting into something but I was too tired to get up and check. This morning Ben came in our room all excited because his tooth had come out "at 1:45am". He was in the kitchen getting a baggy for his tooth. But the tooth fairy had already come for Noah's tooth. Now Ben wants to wait until Nicole is home so he can show her. :)
Oh, yeah. I had my eye appointment and I'm still legally blind in my right eye. And now I also have a cataract. I'm not worried about that. The eye is pretty much useless to me so I'm just going to concentrate on keeping my other eye healthy. The IOP was a bit high in my "good" eye so I may go have it rechecked. My mom has glaucoma and I have heard it can be hereditary. So I'm going to keep on top of it.
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We used to take our kids to PJ Hoffmaster State Park ALL THE TIME.
What I liked about it was that one could wade out into chest-high water, and then walk right up onto a sand bar only ankle deep. Since I cannot swim, it made a safer 'pool' for the kids to swim in. If there were to be an undertoe, that sandbar stopped them from the deeps.
Of course this isn't fool-proof, and I am a fool. But, it did make me feel a bit better about it.
Hoffmaster also has great hiking trails. Me and the other non-swimmer spent a lot of time in the woods.
An undertow in Lake Michigan? Wow, I learn something new every day, haha! Now, the Pacific has SERIOUS undertow and even at the very edge of the surf you've got to be super-careful, especially when the tide is going out. And cold?! At least here along northern Oregon and Washington the water is so cold it makes your ankles ache and your feet turn blue. And yet, I still can't resist it. I'm an ocean kid from as far back as I can remember.
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