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We took some much needed family R&R this past week. We made the 6+ hour roadtrip down to South Padre Island for 5 days. It wasn't but might as well have been Hunter's first time on the beach - his actual first time was when he was 6 months old and he slept in his carrier the entire time. When he first tested out the sand between his toes he was NOT a fan. It didn't take too long before he got used to it and loved being able to run around in the open without being pulled in all sorts of different directions like usual. He was very interested in the water and first but then that flip-flopped also. By the end of our stay, he didn't even want to be in your arms if you were standing at the shore. "Get me out of here!" he would say. :) I think the waves coming towards him scared him a bit. Here are some pics from our week...

This is the view from our balcony - Hunter is in the middle and Daddy is lounging at the right.

Relaxing after a long day at the beach -

We had great weather, although it was super windy. It was very cloudy one of the days but the temps were nice. We stayed in a condo which ended up working out great. Hunter had his own room so he could go to bed at his normal time while we stayed up and played games, watched TV, etc. Since we had a kitchen in our condo, we were able to stay in and make some dinners and lunches so we only went out twice for dinner. The last night we went to a restaurant on the water and there was a dolphin swimming around the pier, coming up from the water occasionally. It was really neat to see. I wasn't fast enough with the camera to get a good picture of him.


I got a little teary looking at his little footprints in the sand and knowing that I'll never see his footprints that small again. Do I think too much? Probably! I still had to take a pic to document, though.

Every single time Hunter encounters someone he says "Hi" to them. Which I love and is super sweet, but he also calls everyone "guy". So, it's "What's guy doing?" or "Hi guy", etc. So, we tried to explain to him that it's appropriate to say "Hello, sir" rather than "Hi, guy"....now he says "Hello sir guy". :)

Also, now when Hunter wants you to hold him, he says "Hold you", rather than "Up" as he used to say. So cute.

We had a great week on the island and hope to have many more memories there!