A Laborless Day
This weekend, all three of us have been a little under the weather. Saturday was the worst day though and we seem to be bouncing slowly back.
Since we were feeling a little better yesterday, we decided to go ahead with our plan to visit the town of Watch Hill, Rhode Island.
Watch Hill is a tiny town on a little peninsula that sticks off the coast of Rhode Island. It is a tiny, one-road, beach community. And by community, I mean group of incredibly wealthy people. The homes in the area were enormous. So enormous that when we would drive by one, my mouth would hang open and I would drool and completely forget to take a picture, leaving me with no visual aid for you guys to see.
Sorry about that. I get very excited by multi-car garages. And cabana houses. And pool boys.
MMmmmm…. pool boys…..
What was I saying again?
Oh, right. Watch Hill.
It was a beautiful day to be by the water, so we bundled Beanie up in inappropriately warm clothing because you just can’t be too careful, right? And we toodled around the town for a couple hours.
Right about here, we noticed that Hey! Its sunny by the water! And Hey! Beanie has soft, sensitive white skin! And Hey! Mommy left the sunscreen at home!
So, we decided to cruise by some stores to see if we could find some Water Babies sunscreen for him. While we were shopping searching for sunscreen to save our son’s skin, I stumbled on this infant beachwear shop. Everything in there was so adorable and so soft and SO FREAKING EXPENSIVE that I had to make sure that Beanie’s drool-covered hands didn’t happen to reach out and touch anything.
But then I found this:
And that’s when I yelled out, “To hell with the costs! We’ll take one of everything!”
And that’s when Chris dragged me out of the store by my ponytail and made me drink a bottle of water on a bench because, clearly, I was delusional from the heat.
Once I calmed down and had an ice cream cone, it was time to head home. On our way back to the car though, we found the most exciting thing ever.
The streets were lined with bushes in one part. Real live bushes. With leaves.
Beanie thought he had died and gone to horticultural heaven.
We stood by the bushes for a while and just let Beanie take it all in. Sure, it was a little strange that there was an entire ocean about 10 feet away where hundreds of tourists flocked and here our weird little family stood staring at bushes. But, our kid loves trees. What can we say?
And as if things couldn’t get any better for little Bean, his Dad let him TOUCH THE TREES! HE GOT TO ACTUALLY TOUCH THE TREES!
It was so exciting, I thought we were going to have to pull Beanie away by his ponytail and make him drink a bottle of water on a bench.
After that, we went straight to the car because, really? Can you top touching a tree for the first time?
Highly doubtful.
We strapped Beanie into his car seat and he was asleep before we even pulled out of our parking spot. He could have been exhausted because his parents just dragged him around in blazing hot temperatures all day and made him wear jeans and a jacket. He could have been exhausted because he was out in the bright sun all day without sunscreen. He could have been exhausted because he was sick and the last place he should have been was out on some beach somewhere looking at boats and bushes.
But I prefer to throw all that sensibility aside and think that Beanie was exhausted because he had had an exciting adventure with his mom and dad.
Sometimes, the best adventures you take are on the days when you really should have stayed home.
18 Comments
Jackie
Awe! What a great day. And Beanie got to touch trees! I’m sure he was exhausted from the excitement of seeing and touching the trees. Sounds like a good time. Hope you guys feel better soon.
Rachel
Beanie is right, beaches are a little overrated, but trees…. that is a totally different story 😉 Sounds like y’all had a great day and you even have a beautiful family picture from the excursion.
Mindee@ourfrontdoor
Glad you’re all on the mend. Don’t you think that rich people have more fun than the rest of us? My mother always tried to convince me otherwise but I think she was lying.
Jessica
I can’t get over that head of hair. WOW. That hat…definitely should have conned Chris into buying it. He looked adorable in it…and it looks like you all had a fun afternoon.
La.
He’s so cute! See how his hair is combed down? Yah, Gooner’s hair WON’T STAY DOWN. It could be the mountain of curls; I don’t know. That looks like a fun time though!
Caroline
I LOVE LOVE LOVE the froggie hat!!!! I get the same treatment when I try and buy outfits for our furbaby. You know what that situation calls for, right? It’s a perfect –dad won’t let me have it, so i will ask grandma– gift 🙂 hehe
holly your biggest fan, but not fattest.
just FYI, after you submitted Beanie to Camille (at archives of our lives) during the cutest baby/kid contest… i decided he wins. HE IS MY FAVORITE. ever.
and i am not just saying that because i love your blog. i really think your kid wins.
well, just because i didnt submit MY kid… 😉
Hilary
Trees were a fascination for my daughter as well. Oh and you’ll continue to forget sunscreen for at least a year if you’re anything like me. It will always manage to be in the other diaper bag.
Laura
Aw, you’re raising a little tree hugger. That’s awesome! And, you’ll save hundreds of dollars on toys – this boy just wants to be outside touching leaves. Fun AND free!
Katrina
looks fun! and that hat is adorable!
Kim
All of your pictures turned out adorable. The ones with him and bushes are priceless.
Alicia
I’m in Florida, and your pictures make me soo insanely jealous that you got to wear sleeved shirts today, when I couldn’t have been comfy outside even if I was naked.
Morgan
LOVE the hat.
Christina
It looks like a perfect day all around! A sleeping baby on the way home? Perfect ending. 🙂
TeamHaynes
Glad you enjoyed you Labor Day! Good job resisting, children are years away and I still want to buy the whole store when I look with friends. I love the last picture the best- looks like beautiful weather!
Maggie
After reading this post yesterday, I had a dream last night about you. You had just given birth to a baby with red hair. Her name was Suzanna. The Bean was there in the delivery room, too.
It was pretty weird, but mostly because I usually dream about celebrities or people from my past, not people I’ve never met!
Earthtone
He looks grown now..! What beautiful pictures, esp the last one. I hate you for not having pictures of the big houses, I’d so love to see them.
Oh, btw, in our culture ( Chinese ), it’s a custom to bring one-month-old babies out to touch things, every nice things. Something about so that they’d get to experience a full life and not be afraid of things. The Bean touching trees reminds me of that. You guys aren’t by any chance Chinese, are you?
naomi
looks like it was a lovely day.