Beach Week – Bess Style

As she is so often referred to by the Rutland side of the family, Butterbean, had a wonderful week at Pawleys! 

In hopes to follow in the footsteps of her older brother, Bess decided she was a fan of the boogie board also.  Her idea of how a boogie board should be used was slightly different than the original intent.  But she was a happy baby if she was being pulled!

Never one to walk away from a mess, Baby Bess was ALL ABOUT the “muddles” near our campsite!  She absolutely loved putting sandy mud in and out of the buckets.  How thankful was I for these puddles?! 

But when Baby Bess was ready to head back to the beach house, someone was always willing to go with her.  This person knew if they took Bess back to the house, they could probably slip in a good afternoon nap and blame it on her!

As expected, Baby Bess could often be found getting her way!  Take DooDad for example, if walking on the table top kept her happy, this is the activity Bess got to do!  Clearly, it is a hard life this baby leads!

Bess could be spotted at the beach with something to eat in both of her hands at all times!  Morning , Noon, or Night, this child walked around eating something from someone, often stealing food from others when they weren’t looking!  She likes her food no doubt!  And she soon learned how delicious ice cream cones were!  Thanks to Uncle Jeffery she was able to gain an extra cone to eat!   At least she tried to share her cones with him though!

It seems now that I reflect back on many of Bess’ wonderful memories from the beach, they all involve food!  Thankfully we celebrated birthdays at the beach so Baby Bess was lucky enough to get birthday cake too!  Life was perfect! She really tried hard to showcase her best table manners!

  But Baby Bess fell in love with the water at the beach this year!  She discovered floating in the puddles and thought this was by far the best thing ever.  She would just giggle and fall backwards into the water and lay there.  She was a little fish!

We had such a wonderful time at Pawleys this year!  Thanks RahRah & DooDad for a wonderful house and week of fun!  Can’t wait until 2011!