Playing Beach

We are in full "anticipating summer" mode around here. With only 13 days of school left, we are getting excited about summer. Even Amanda is ready. She knows that the pool opens the day the boys get out of school, so she has her own countdown for that.

 Even though the pool isn't quite open, nothing can stop Amanda from running around the house in her bathing suit. "Beach" continues to be her favorite game.

 The only problem was that Merry did not have her own bathing suit. So weren't we excited when we saw baby bathing suits for sale at the Dollar Tree this week! Yep, $1.00 for a bathing suit.

It needed a bit of resizing, but that wasn't too much trouble.  After a few minutes with the sewing machine, we were ready to take Merry to the beach.

As I sewed, Amanda got the "beach" ready.  A few more friends joined us.  From left to right, you see towels for Merry, Megan, Baby Princess (who is using her hat as a blanket - Amanda thought that was so funny), Amanda, Anna, Hannah (the My Little Pony) and Abby.  My towel is the yellow striped towel in the back.  We also had a beach ball and several other toys to play with.  

Isn't it fun to snuggle with baby at the beach?

And while I had the sewing machine out, I worked on another outfit for Merry.  This was a find off of the clearance rack at Target.  They were so discounted, that I bought one for Amanda and an extra for Merry.  Now they have matching Peace Sign dresses.