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Sunday, August 23, 2015

cape cod

Summer is drawing to a close.  My sister goes back to university soon, and my brother will follow a few weeks after her.  Then the days will get shorter and colder (hooray) and all this summertime stuff will just seem so far away.  I spent the week in the cape with my family, while Sam worked and visited his parents (since his dad just had surgery).  We missed him, but it was really fun to spend lots of time with my parents and siblings (and aunts and cousins, who came up for a day).  We visited the beach countless times, Oliver took his first wobbly steps one afternoon (not yet repeated), and nobody got sunburned.



Right now I'm listening to Sam play with Oliver in his crib and Oliver is giggling hysterically, the way he does when he is with his favorite people and they are giving him their full attention.  And so, the highlights of the last week:

- Taking Oliver to the beach and watching him play in the sand, stare at the waves, and laugh when we went swimming (in the warmer water on the bay side - he hated the freezing cold ocean at Nauset Beach).  




- Playing with cousins who adore Oliver when they came to visit on Thursday.  Oliver doesn't have any first cousins yet, but my little cousins love him and are so excited to play with him.  They are really sweet and spent the day trying to do everything for him, from holding his hands and helping him walk around to pushing his stroller as we walked to and from the beach.  Just another example of how lucky Oliver is, with so many people who dote on him

- Going to an arcade on Tuesday when we visited Hyannis.  It was really hot, we were sweaty and walking around was sort of tiring in the humid, damp weather, so we stopped briefly at this sort of depressing arcade to revisit our glory days of play ski ball.  I was still the best, Oliver watched in fascination, and we gave all the tickets we won away to a little boy who didn't seem to have very many.  



- Watching sunsets at various beaches almost every night.  Poor Oliver almost never got put to bed on time, because we'd go to the beach around 6, when you didn't have to pay for parking anymore, and then end up staying for several hours.  But the sky!  It was glorious.  One night we bought things like fish and chips and ate sitting on the soft sand, listening to the waves crash, watching the seals out in the water, and eventually ending up jumping in the waves ourselves.




- Visiting Provincetown, seeing the sights, eating dumplings on the beach as the sun set.





Our last night there we visited Marconi beach, played in the sand, looked for rocks and once again marveled at all the seals.  They were everywhere in the water, playing in the waves and peering out at us while we watched them.  We all agreed that something about their faces seemed friendly and dog like, until you see them on land and realize how huge they really are.  On Saturday, we drove him, bemoaning the crazy traffic (one downside to the cape) and making a quick stop at IKEA for meatballs and a few small things.  Who can resist the joys of IKEA?  It was the perfect end to a holiday week. 

6 comments:

  1. glad you had such a lovely holiday. Oliver looks so happy playing on the beach

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    1. yeah, he really was, it was great! we visited the beach on a cold day in july and he hated it, so this was much better.

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  2. What amazing pictures. I am very jealous. I would love to be on a beach watching a sunset now #TWTWC

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    1. hah me, too, now! just looking at these pictures and can't believe it was a week ago. summer goes so quickly.

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  3. lots of lovely beach pictures, and sounds like a brilliant holiday.
    Nice to give them the experience of sun and sand.

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    1. Yeah, sun and sand is so fun for babies... I love watching babies explore new things, he was fascinated by the waves and little fish and soft sand.

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