Summer in the city

A hot day like today is particularly hard to take after a nice dip in the ocean at Short Beach yesterday. Well, Christopher took a dip. I'd forgotten to buy a bathing suit (mine is several sizes out of date) and May isn't quite the water baby her daddy is. We did dip her feet in the water and she only cried for a second.

She cried a lot more when we squished her toes around in the mud.

We drove down to Short Beach for many reasons -- to celebrate two birthdays and to to see Christopher's Aunt Diane who has come all the way from Hawaii. Since one of the birthdays happened to be hers, so much the better. One was also Betty's but in a totally unfair move, we made Betty throw her own birthday party.

Which was doubly unfair since Betty just got a new granddaughter on Friday -- Lucy Paikea, little sister to Ella. Congrats Dana and Owen.

May did well on the trips down and up. She's grown longer (taller?) in the past few days, I swear she has, and her sleep schedule is finally getting back on track after the trip to NJ.

I know I promised the extemporaneous walk song, but I am going to save that till tomorrow.