What we did when we weren't on the beach

While we were away we stayed at a private place that provided all your meals and laundry. It was so much fun to have a 'closed grounds' so the kids could play without us worrying. Caed made a bunch of new friends, and spent time with old friends he knew from before. Beia started walking with help, though she is still at 16 months not walking on her own yet!

We did quite a few puzzles, and read a lot of books

Loved going to the pool every afternoon - you can see the ocean in the background

B loved the pool, she learned to lower herself in feet first

cuteness wet baby

we biked to 'town' and drank fruit smoothies - a Thailand must 

what you are not aloud to do in Thai taxis

I spent a lot of time in this hammock on the beach

we walked to a nearby aquarium and watched them feed the fish

bike rides to town

scooter rides to a new beach

on the van ride back B would not sleep, so we semi opened her stroller in the 'aisle' and she fell fast asleep

Beach Time

If you didn't figure it out from all the instagram and Facebook pictures earlier this month we went to the beach. It was our first vacation in a long time and we were so so grateful to come out of such a stressful environment for a couple weeks of relaxing. Here are a few {maybe a more than a few} pictures!

Children's Discovery Museum

Get ready for lots of pictures of Caedmon standing at fun exhibits - we visited the coolest discovery museum this weekend. It is geared all for small, inquisitive, creative, curious kids - and we have one of those!

He loved this wall and spent so much time creating different slopes. Made me thing of trying to recreate (sans water) some sort of magnetic slope ball thing in China...

my favorite picture of the day!!! golf ball painting.

the sign said taste...

...and he did {he told Gramma tonight that tasting leaves was one of the most fun things he did there - really son?!}

Ice block melting and coloring

The next day we got to meet up with some friends who used to live in China with us. We have such good memories with the Kims and it is so fun that they now live close to our hometown so we get to see them when we are home. 

First Swim

We had a great weekend visiting with some awesome people all over the south bay. Since we were meeting different people three days in a row we decided to spend the night at a fun hotel with an indoor pool. So someone had her first swim :)