First day of school at Corvian

 Both kids were so excited about their first day at Corvian Community School.  Declan had a half day and Terefech went for lemonade drop in (an hour with daddy doing a classroom scavenger hunt and drinking lemonade).  It was a success all around.

 Terefech was thrilled to have her best buddy in class with her.  She was nervous but a friend always makes it better.

 Ms. Amber her teacher...T is in love already!

And here is D at the end of the day...he had a wonderful day, recess playing soccer, seeing his friends, making new ones, and some lemonade!

How we can help...

I follow a blog...The Eyes of My Eyes are Opened.  She is a wonderful writer and well, I just love hearing about her kids as they are from the same region as Terefech.  She wrote a great post on ways you can help the area Terefech is from as well as those starving in the Horn of Africa right now...click here.

Surprise...we are going to...

We woke the kids up this past Monday morning, said eat, get dressed and we are off for a surprise.  They guessed the beach early on but we didn't give in.  We gave ambiguous hints the whole way there until they knew what it was.  We headed to Charleston for a one nighter at the beach.  We hadn't been this summer other than on the cruise so we wanted to see it!  Plus, we had just a couple of days left before I head back to work so we wanted to have some family fun...and that we did!

Lots of time was spent digging holes.  Terefech's were super deep!

Terefech captured a couple of hermit crabs in the tidal pool.

A beach rule:  always fill in your holes.  Really, it is.  Lots of people get hurt every year falling into holes left by beach goers.  But, before we filled in Terefech's big hole, we filled it in with her.  Everyone thought that was hilarious.

One of our hints was that the kids were going to get to meet one (and then we said two, so tricky) new people on this trip.  And we didn't take a picture with them!  We did meet Sara and Greg at Taco Boy for dinner.  Rich coached Sara when he worked at the College of Charleston and they have remained in touch.  Wonderful to see her and her husband and yummy tacos.

Declan being a chicken.

Back to digging on day 2.

I was the water transporter for hole digging since it was high tide when we came so we were way back in dry sand.  After lunch, the kids marveled at how far the water had moved back.  

It was a wonderful 2 days at the beach.  We were reminded that we will live there someday.  We both had moments of just sitting and taking it in.  We love it, we feel at home.

Fun at pool...

Terefech loves having Rich throw her up in the air at the pool.  It has been a bit of a bonding experience for them as I can't do it so he is the one!  We have been trying to take pictures of them doing for the whole summer and finally remembered the other day.  So here they are...

Declan doesn't like to go under the water but he loves being thrown up in the air and caught by Daddy!

Never knew a window could be so much fun

Who would have known that an open window would be so much fun?  Our front windows don't ever get opened....no screens.  The other night the kids asked to open it, we did and they had a blast crawling back and forth, talking to each other and putting their muddy hands all over the windows.  Who needs TV or video games?

Loving their cousins..

The water camera!

Here are some of the pictures from our underwater camera on the trip!

Here we are with the stingrays.  Awesome experience.

The fish that were swimming everywhere at the beach at Castaway Cay.

Declan coming off of the Mickey slide, his second home on the ship.

Terefech and I on the Aquaduck.  We were always laughing, giggling and screaming so much that is was hard to get good pictures while we were zooming through the tube.  The Aquaduck is a tube water slide that starts high above the pool deck, goes around the deck, through one of the smoke decks and deposits you down at the pool deck.  Definitely a selling point of the Disney Dream.