Let's start with the pictures....
It looks like these girls were perfect and sweet, minded their moms, walked slowly, never screamed or threw tantrums huh? Well, let's just say that these pictures portray something totally different. The little girl in the pictures with Brayleigh is Paisley Howard. My very good friend Brittany and I decided to take our daughters on their first beach and aquarium trip. Paisley is 20 months old, so she is alot more calm than Brayleigh due to the 5 month difference between them. I didnt see Brittany leaning over scooping up her child before everyone else in the aquarium trampled over her as much as I had too. Brayleigh hates being confined in anything so the stroller was out of the picture for the most part. She wanted to run through the whole place by herself. I did more running, falling and laughing than anything else...and by the end of the trip, I was drenched with sweat!! I always said that I would NEVER get one of those leashes that you see parents pulling their child with, but after that experience...I will not attempt anything like that again WITHOUT some kind of restraint for my wild and crazy child. Now, onto the beach trip........
Bottom line, Brayleigh is not scared of water. She loves any type of water whether it's the bathtub, river, pool, ocean, sink faucet...she absolutely loves water. Maybe part fish, not sure??? As soon as she saw the ocean, she went nuts and started running to the water. Not the body of water I wanted her to love the most considering it's the most dangerous of them all. She kept trying to go in by herself and I would end up pulling her arms pure out of socket so needless to say, it was a DISASTER! Oh, not to mention....she ate so much sand that it tore her belly up. How do you keep a child from eating sand especially when your surrounded by it? I'll answer that for you...YOU CANT! So, by the end of the day...we had tired babies and we were tired mommies! Will we do that again? Nope, not until they are older and can help carry stuff. My mom always said "you pack up your life to go to the beach only to stay for 1 hour"...................Let's just say, Mothers always know best!
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