What a great weekend! There was tons of summer fun to be had, and we had it. :) Starting with Thursday evening we had a group from church over for ice cream as a sort of farewell to some friends of ours that are leaving for the mission field in a couple weeks. It was a nice time of fellowship, the weather was beautiful, and of course, the kids had a blast all playing together.
Friday Mike got home from work early! I still can hardly believe it. :) Mid-afternoon he headed up to Harold and Kara's cottage with Caleb and Logan. They spent the night in a tent out in the yard. While the big boys are away, Levi and Mommy will play! :) Levi and I headed out for the evening for dinner and some shopping. I did take him to the play area in the mall (Holland) for a few minutes, but he wasn't all that into it. I'm guessing if his big brothers were there he would have been a little braver in checking things out.
Saturday morning after I got all the food stuff ready, Levi and I headed up to the cottage. What a perfect day there! The weather was awesome, the kids had fun, and it's hard to believe, but I think I actually relaxed a little. :) Caleb and Logan are at the point where they still need to be supervised, but for the most part they play great, are more surefooted, and have a healthy enough fear of the water that they can sort of be trusted. I remembered the pack'n'play this time, so Levi took a nap; and I took a section of plastic fence for him to play in, which he did great in and kept us from worrying he was going to crawl off the edge of the deck or something. Also, he was perfectly happy to just sit on a raft with Grandma for a long time.
Caleb actually tried kneeboarding...yikes! Now, remember, so far when it comes to watersports it seems that Logan is more "Krol" and Caleb is more "Steenwyk". :) He has fun and all, just doesn't seem to be quite as comfortable with it. I'm guessing that when he said he wanted to do it he wasn't aware that falling off into the water was an option... I was not too thrilled with the idea at first, but Mike and I talked and he convinced me (pretty much...sort of....) that everything would be okay. I'll post the video clip separately, but basically he fell off right away. Mike had forgotten to tell him to let go if he fell off, which is kinda important... :) He was initially scared, but it doesn't seem that he's too traumatized by it (Not only was I afraid of my baby getting hurt, I was afraid that after falling off he would be too traumatized to ever try anything ever again...). I don't know that we'll get him to try it again this year, but maybe next! :)
For some reason Logan has decided he's scared of fish. So, he'll do his swimming in the shallower water, but won't swim further out. Last time we were there he was swimming with Mike, saw Mike's leg and thought it was a big fish, and FREAKED out.
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| Levi was happier when he was up out of the water... |
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| the three amigos |
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| trying kneeboarding with Mike pulling |
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| Levi reading a book in his fence |
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| kayak ride |
And then Sunday was another fun day! Some friends of ours have a speedboat out at Lake Michigan, and in the evening a few couples met up to head out with the boat. Wow. What a ride! We left from Grand Haven, headed up to Muskegon, we were going to have dinner there but there was nowhere to "park", so then we went back to Grand Haven, docked along the boardwalk, disembarked for dinner, then enjoyed the rest of the ride back to the marina. I know nothing about boats, but it sounded nice, looked nice, plenty of heads turned as we were headed out the channel, and it went faster than I need it to. :) Lake Michigan was a bit choppy, and we hit some waves pretty hard... I know our friend was driving smart and would keep us safe, but I was hanging on pretty tight and was a bit anxious to get back to a "no wake zone". :) I would love to know what the boat looked like from a distance as we were speeding along. There were times the boat was not in contact with the water. On second thought, maybe I wouldn't want to see that...
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| part of the group |
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| our sweet ride for the evening |
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| This pic does nothing for me, but maybe there are some that can appreciate it... |
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| Just a little windblown by this point... |
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| docked in Grand Haven for dinner |
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| beautiful night! |
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