We’re back from the beach!

We’re back from the beach! The week quickly but pretty well. Emma forgot about me during the week and took up MIL “MawMaw” as her mother. It was good in some ways, bad in others. We left the beach yesterday and ILs didn’t come back until today so she has been a Mommy’s girl since then. I thought I would be hearing MawMaw every 2 seconds but she has only asked after her 3 or 4 times. She was excellent in the car on the way back. It is a 3 1/2 hr drive and she slept for the first 1 1/2 hr of it and then played pleasantly the rest of the way. I was more than thrilled. I had been dreading that drive the whole way. We didn’t do anything extremely exciting there. Just the normal shopping places..Broadway, Barefoot Landing, the new mall, flea markets. We went to the beach twice and didn’t stay too long or go more often because Emma doesn’t like the beach too much. She was ok with the water. She let me stand with her in the shallow part and let waves come up on her but she wasn’t running around splashing in it. The sand was a definite no-go. She wouldn’t even play with water in a hole because as soon as she felt the sand, she was itching to get it off. And that is impossible! The extended entry has a picture which pretty much sums up her beach trip. Kind of a yucky face, trying to get sand off her hands. But, she did have a ton of fun with all the family there. Her and Scott’s younger cousin H had a blast together. They played Barbie’s, legos, babies, balls, bubbles, coloring, stickers.

SIL did end up having one of her “moments” last night with her son after we left yesterday. He wanted to go to the teen club there and insisted until SIL finally gave in, dropped him off at the club and told him to find out how to get himself home. She then came home, tried to pack her bags to go home and said she was going to call DSS and tell them to get him because she was tired of trying with him. I still can’t believe she did that even as I’m typing this. Mind you, she also has a 9 month old that was there that I’m assuming MIL was taking care of and planning to take care of had she left. They of course had Scott talk to her and talk her into following ILs back. MIL called today and said she did stay but didn’t say one word on the 3 1/2 hr drive back. I truly believe she needs either heavy counseling or even medication. At least anger management skills at minimum would help. But she claims it won’t work. My nephew has gotten in a lot of trouble lately. But he is a good kid and if he had the right direction, he would be just fine. He just doesn’t have the right discipline and help. My BIL (not nephew’s father) is no help either. She’s ready to leave him too. He IS very lazy, has a bad attitude, has some weird opinions and generally is immature. Which doesn’t help. At all. They all just need help. They are all good people and have good hearts, but they just need someone to help them get it all together.

Mele, to answer your post the other day, we are naming the baby just Lexi. I want to call her Lexi so I’m skipping the full name and just naming her Lexi. I think Alexis is a beautiful name though. I’ve considered going ahead with that one several times.

Emma did her first somersault last Sunday by herself. It was a little crooked, but it counted. And she finally got some air on one of her jumps this week. She is really trying to talk. This week I think she said a whole sentence to her cousin but I couldn’t tell you what she said.

Picture of Emma…(I added one of the 3 of us too)

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