We spent Mother's Day at the beach on Jetty Island with Eben and Johanna and their two kids Eddison (4) and Charlotte (2). Grace and Eddison love playing together, Charlotte mostly follows them around and Jake does his own thing.
The island is a quick 5 minute boat ride across the channel, which was a good thing because Jake hated wearing a life jacket and made sure we knew it! He also, apparently hates sand. We were at the beach for about 5 hours and Jake refused to put his feet in the sand the entire time, even to go play in the water. He did seem to have fun just watching the kids play and sitting on Mom or Dad. The good thing was we didn't worry about him running off, like he usually does.
Grace, on the other hand, loved being at the beach. She ran around the whole time, playing in the water, building forts, finding bugs and many other things. She even loved her life jacket and wore it on the beach.
Here's a few pictures, including one right after Matt tried making Jake stand on the sand and one where Jake would not sit down until I wiped a little bit of sand off the chair.
