Blogging Baby Size Six: Things I've learned on a beach holiday with a two-year-old

Oh, Maggie, I'm so sorry. You just truely reminded me how precious they are. I know that they are, but I take it for granted that I will always have them. Thank you for opening my eyes.

I've been waiting to go home to Florida, cant wait to have my own beach memories with my two little ones. One more year.

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It is never to early to take your kids to the beach!We had to wait 2 years till my 7 year old had finished cemo. I'll never for get what she looked like on the beach with very little hair digging a hole to china. Who cares about a diper full of sand. It is way better than sitting in a hospital room hoping your little girl will long enough to some day get to see a beach. The time is NOW!! Don't wait!! To late might be here sooner than you think.

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Already got the sand-eating out of the way well in advance of first resort vaca (fifth vaca overall). From much time spent in the nearby playground's sand area, my one-year-old daughter already knows sand is fun in buckets, on arms and legs, all over her feet, even in her hair, but not in her mouth.

We're going to go the opposite way with dinner -- our daughter has slept soundly through the night, 7:45-8:30 until 7-8 a.m., since about four months. So, we're going to get her to sleep BEFORE dinner, walk her around a bit in the stroller to make sure she's deep into REMland, then into the restaurant. We've done better betting on her ability to stay asleep than Little Miss Perpetual Motion's ability to stay quiet and in the stroller.

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I would love to go to the beach with my 3 children, but just trying to keep enough food on the table and gas in the car takes all my time working. I miss the 60's. Times were better.

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I have no children, but do live very close to the ocean. My 5 yr old niece visited us for the first time since we moved, also her first experience at the ocean and beach. I will remember the giggles and the smiles that never left her face the entire time she was here, forever. Cherish the moments. Yes, there will be hassles and problems, but at least you have the children to experience the whole picture with. To be able to look back on everything and remember it all with a smile on your face is worth everything.

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For the one who says "hold out till they are older" Forget that. Tomorrow is never promised. I lost my husband when our boys were 4, 3 and 11 months, and if we'd "waited till the kids are older" we'd have missed SO much. The boys may not remember some of the things we did, But its what sustains me. they are now 10, 9 and 7 and its funny how talking about those times "gives" them the memories of them.
Grab today for all its worth, we never thought my healthy robust happy 41 year old husband would die suddenly.

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