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2/18/20: ocean lover

Lauren has gotten braver by the day in the ocean. Today when we got outside she spent a long time over by the rocks looking for fish. “Grandma, why aren’t you over here looking at the fish?” “Mom, come look at this teeeeeeny fish!” We saw a few crabs. Heard and then saw a couple of parrots in the neighbor’s tree. Jeff and Lauren kayaked and Jeff said he saw a 4’ long fish swim under them. Lauren then went back to the beach and was digging in the water and filling up cups of “snacks” (water) to feed the fish. She kept turning down offers to swim in the pool. We did finally get her over there though and everyone swam before lunch. The girls napped well (Lauren had I think her first meltdown while we were putting her down for a nap, she’s been so good).

Easton came this morning to clean the pool, I forgot to write about him last week. He comes on Tuesdays to clean the pool and Mom got his story last week. His son, Rasheed Brown, is going to college in Nashville and training for the Olympics in track. We looked him up and he’s won all sorts of track events so far.

Jeff made a double batch of pina coladas this afternoon at the pool. Lauren got brave in the pool too and agreed to take her wings off! She would push off the steps to me, I’d help her swim across to the ladder, she’d cook me something in her “house”, then climb up the steps from behind, over to top, push off to me again, I’d help her across to just past the jet, and she’d monkey along the wall back to the step. We probably did this two dozen times. Her swim teacher won’t recognize her when we get home!

Spaghetti for dinner. Jeff and Lauren took Mike and Carol to bioluminescent bay after dinner.









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