Mommy's Last Summer Montauk Day

Mommy's Montauk vacation came to an end sooner than the rest of the family's. It was time to head back to Colorado to go to work. Ben was going home with Mommy but Bree and Daddy were staying longer, so we had a mommy-daughter day! We started at the docks for lunch. I had lobster bisque and Bree had her favorite BreeBurger. 

 

We drove to the light house just to wave at it from the car, and a nice person stopped us and gave us free tickets. So in and up, up, up we went!

 

At the light house there is a fantastic hill for rolling down, down, down.

 

 Pointing to Joe's House on the satellite image of Montauk. 

Ben spent some quality time with Great Great Aunt Hedy. He will get to see her this December for her 100th birthday! 

 

Mommy took a lovely, solitary walk on the beach in the evening. Mommy always forgets that when the sun goes down in New York, darkness descends quickly. (It doesn't just duck down behind some Rocky Mountains and stay light out for awhile.) 

 

Sister and brother shared some TV time before bed.

The Lesson

Here are some decent pictures from Bree's last surf lesson as a 5 year-old. She has so much fun out there on her board! The crazy girl refused to wear a wet suit and had to come in early because it was a chilly day. Hopefully next year she won't be such a diva when it comes to surfing fashion and will get to spend more time in the water.

 

Had to throw this picture in of little brother - LOVE it!

A Montauk Evening

Our family got ready one evening for a walk down to the beach. Ben decided he wanted to drive, but the rest of us really wanted to walk. He is still waiting for his chance to chauffeur the family around and tries to take over the driver's seat any time he can, but so far he has only managed to start the car on his own. (Surprise!) 

Before leaving, Bree had a few Monarch butterflies to set free. 

Here are some pictures we took on our walk:

Yeah - almost impossible to keep this girl out of the water!

Joe's House

 Ben and Bree will have so many wonderful memories of time spent at Cousin Joe's house!

Lost a Tooth!

While away in New York this summer, Bree lost her first tooth! Here she is with her good friend Sara. Notice the matching missing tooth? They are toothy twins! Bree happened to be at Sara's house the night that her tooth came out. She was throwing a nerf football with her Daddy and missed and caught the football with her mouth instead. That tooth, it was holding on by a thread and the football proved to be too much.

Bree was a bit overwhelmed when it all happened so fast. Our baby girl just cried and cried, and carried her tooth out onto the front porch to get some air and calm down. She didn't even care or notice when she dropped her tooth and it fell down between two slats of wood and landed underneath the porch, somewhere in the dark, damp earth. 

Daddy cared. He couldn't have his baby girl miss out on her first ever visit from the tooth fairy! That Daddy found himself a flashlight and crawled underneath that porch as the sun was setting and darkness crept in. He didn't mind looking for a needle in a haystack, and in no time at all Daddy had recovered the literally lost tooth and wrapped it into a tissue so it would not get lost again. 

Back at Cousin Joe's house this tired young lady got ready to sleep in her Daddy's childhood bed, stocked now with brand new Star Wars sheets. She carefully placed her tissue-wrapped tooth beneath her pillow, grabbed her Snuggie and a tooth-fairy wand, and pretended to sleep until sleep truly found her. 

Oh boy - the next morning was she surprised! The tooth fairy had taken that tooth and in its place left our dear Bree "five buck dollars!" And not only that - but a coin with a picture of a lady on it! (A lady that to us looks a bit like Queen Elizabeth on a Canadian coin, but Bree believes it to be THE tooth fairy.) This milestone has come to an end, and boy, what a story!

A Summer of Firsts

For my daughter, this was a summer of firsts. Not only was it her first time surfing the waves in Montauk, but it will forever be remembered as the summer of her first kiss. (And another first which will be detailed in the next post!) You see, Bree's friend Noah was super excited to see her again. When we first arrived, we met up with Noah and his family at the beach and it warmed my heart to see them run down the sand to each other to say hello. The obviously have a special connection. 

These pictures show Bree and Noah at dinner one evening. How cute are they - both of them decided to dress a little nicer when they heard the other would be there. We arrived to Noah wearing a tie and bearing gifts! He had asked his mother if he could wrap up some of her jewelry to give to his friend Bree. 

Now, I am not entirely sure of the details of the kiss. It seems that this event may have been encouraged by some of the older kids around that day. I do recall sitting in the car in a bit of disbelief that I was talking to my 5-year-old about her first kiss. I asked her about it and wondered if she had told him it was inappropriate, or if she kissed him back. Bree looked at me with her eyes wide and a smile on her face and said, "I kissed him back, Mom, I kissed him back!" Not knowing what else to say, I told her she can always talk to me about kissing boys. Sigh.

This picture kills me!

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