Pass the porkchops!

I have always told Mel that beach air is good for you. Not just for a tan…It always seems to help me feel so much better and works wonders for various ailments. (Okay, so maybe a tan helps with that too). Apparently, that salt air also aids in the development of TEETH! One week at the beach and BAM, Mary Clare has grown her first two pearlies! Two on the bottom are peeking their way through. Her Grandma B, my stepmother, noticed them first. (Mom loved that.)

I also think she is going to walk any day now. She has begun to cart around with McCanless’ baby stroller and loves to follow me. She will see me and cry until she reaches me and laughs, until I walk away, then cries until she gets back to me and laughs, etc… I figure as long as I’m in front of her, she’ll get the hang of it sometime. Otherwise, she is still an extra appendage on me.

We had a wonderful weekend with Daddy last weekend at Surfside Beach, and when he left Sunday, the girl’s team decided to stay on for the week. Pop, Grandma B, Blake and Dara were also down at the beach for the week, so we were able to spend lots of time with them and had lots of fun at Pawley’s Island, Hard Rock Park and the water park. Mary Clare’s hair is even more blonde and she has a little brown baby tan. McCanless, poor thing, has more freckles, a sunburn and a jellyfish sting, but has finally stopped complaining about her peeling ears!!

I have lots of great photos to post as soon as I de-Mel the house.