Beach Week- Charlie Style

The lone solider! Charlie was once again surrounded by 4 other girls for a week of beach fun! Never fear, Charlie can hold his own! Although there were several sets of high heel dress up shoes for him to become distracted by, he remained steady in his love for Buzz and Ronny Car! (Actually, he used the dress up shoes as “skateboards”!)

Come Sunday morning, Charlie was ready to hit the beach. I had made an early morning run to the local beach shop and ended up purchasing Jay a shovel to dig Charlie a hole on the beach with. Still unsure if Jay actually ever used the shovel because Charlie LOVED his “shobbel”. Sadly, the “shobbel” did not last long as it soon became a weapon and had to go “bye bye”! Maybe next year!

To divert Charlie’s attention from his “shobbel”, we turned our efforts to boogie boarding like Ella! Charlie wanted to do anything Ella did, so the boogie boarding was a hit. Thanks to Uncle Jeffery for braving the wild ocean waves for me! This mommy likes to see her feet in the water so this task was a little frightening for me!

After more attempts on various days to allow Charlie to survive the day with his beloved “shobbel” …

Charlie found happiness in DooDad’s ice cream cones!

And what would a week at the beach with my sweet little boy be, if he didn’t create a laughable outfit for me!? Scuba Steve appeared one afternoon and decided fish hunting in the big puddles on the beach was an activity worth doing!

When the beach had taken all the energy from this little one though, our crew headed back to the house to find additional entertainment for our crew of kids!

A hose pipe can never become an old trick!

Charlie was so happy when his daddy arrived to play on the beach with him! Mom was getting a little boring ! I love these 2 boys!!!!

Finally, as the week was drawing to a close, Jay, Amy, Bubba and I, along with our crews, decided to brave the local putt putt course. Hoping this would be a much needed activity away from the blazing beach heat. So we loaded up and off we went! To me, everything about 9,000 degree weather, a putt putt course and 4 kids sounds thrilling! And it was my friends. The 4 adults realized quickly why people wait until after dinner for the activity of putt putt!

But look at this shot! Charlie really did this folks! Making his daddy proud!

And so, Charlie’s week of Pawley’s Island fun was a success! We left the island was “Big Buzz”. Because Little Buzz was not wonderful enough! I think Charlie was able to sucker his daddy in and play a little guilt card since he had been stuck with the girls all week! Despite being with the girls though, Charlie had a wonderful week full of wonderful beach memories!

But my favorite memory of all was when the little booger finally slowed down long enough and took a quick 30 minute nap! I could have sat here forever with my wild man!