Monday, September 21, 2009

My First Trip to the Beach. By Paxton

This weekend, Mommy and Daddio took me to the ocean. We stayed in a house with a long, dark hallway that I liked to run up and down. Mommy and I stayed in one bedroom. Mommy was on a big bed and I was on a little bed on the floor. Daddio slept in the other bedroom with the dogs. He was worried that his snoring would wake me up. It might have, but Mommy said that I kept rolling over on my toy computer and it would play loud songs and I never woke up from that. Mommy was surprised that I move around so much when I sleep. I'm an active kid. I like to try different things. Sometimes I like to sleep in a ball on the floor. Sometimes I like to sleep across my bed. Sometimes I just like to have my head on the bed, and my body on the floor. I'm a mover and a shaker, you see.

The ocean was like a big, dirty pool. But the water tasted worse than the pool water. I kept tasting it anyway. I could stand up in the ocean, but sometimes the waves knocked me down and that made me cry. It felt weird to walk on sand in my bare feet. But it was better than walking in my water shoes, because they got filled with sand. Mommy was kind of scared to walk in the ocean, because she saw a jellyfish. I held her hand so she would not be so scared. It seemed to help.

Daddy showed me how to build a sandcastle. And he showed me how to fly a kite. Daddy took a long time to put together the kite, but when he got it up in the air, lots of people came over to Daddy to tell him how much they liked it. Mommy says that Daddy is a "Leo" and likes it when people notice his cool toys. I don't like it when people notice my cool toys, because usually they want to play with them, and then I have to scream at them.

Mommy said that there were three weddings on the beach next to us. I saw people standing around and girls wearing big dresses, but I didn't have much time to think too much about it. I wanted to be sure Daddy knew that I needed more water to mix with the sand. Daddy is good at following my directions.

On Saturday, we went to the Texas State Aquarium, where there were LOTS of fish. My favorite part was when I put my finger against the fish tank, and this little yellow and blue fish came over to nibble at it through the glass. Everywhere I moved my finger, the little fish followed. It cracked me up. I could have done that all day, but Mommy got bored and wanted to keep walking. We saw seahorses and jellyfish and sharks and eels and every color fish there is, although I think most of them were "blue". We went outside and saw birds with only one wing. There were lots of birds like that. And then we saw three dolphins who swam and swam all around and smiled with their eyes closed. They jumped up in the air and splashed me. They waved at me, too.

Daddy was mad sometimes this weekend, because he said the mosquitos were everywhere. If I felt like being silly and ran away from Mommy and Daddy, they ran after me and grabbed me and told me we had to run fast away from the mosquitos. They bit me a lot. Mommy said I have 30 bites on me. My neck really itched. It kind of made me mad. I see what Daddio means.

I was glad we brought Lula and Jelly with us. Lula is my best friend. She went into the ocean with me and pretended to bite the waves. It was so funny! When Mommy put her in the car for a little while, I got really worried. I wanted her to be with me in the water. She was so much fun. Jelly was fun, too, but she's scared of the water, so we had to leave her at our condo. I tried to cheer her up by making her growl, but Mommy made me stop. I don't know why. Jelly LOVES to growl!

I was pretty tired by the time we got in the car to go home. But I didn't want to sleep. I was afraid I would miss something. I made Mommy hand me every one of my cars, and I threw them all on the floor. Then I made her read me all of my books. Then I wanted to hear my favorite songs. I wanted my monkey, but then I threw him on the floor, too. Mommy got kind of mad. Then I got mad, too. When we stopped for french fries, Daddio changed my diaper and Mommy gave me french fries with ketchup and then I guess I fell asleep for a little while. I woke up really mad that I missed something. I told Mommy that I wanted cookies! Then I guess I fell asleep for a little longer.

I woke up this morning thinking about the ocean. I told Mommy I wanted to go there, but she said we were home now and got to go to Music class instead. I hope we can go back to the ocean soon. I liked it a lot!

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