we spent our afternoon on the bethany beach boardwalk. the kids had some ice cream and we picked up a couple buckets of thrashers fries to go with our dinner - YUM!!! malloy was great on the boardwalk. she held onto a strap attached to the stroller and walked right next to me. she can be a real sweetie pie! at bedtime, malloy and i had a nice talk about the ocean and how it's silly and it comes up to tickle your feet and then runs away. i told her the ocean was playing a game. she looked excited to get her toes tickled tomorrow, but we shall see!!!! rex had some great daddy time today - they played at the beach together, walked the boardwalk together, and neal did bedtime. he is loving all of this male bonding and i know neal is, too. so glad we could get away for a week and neal is getting so much time with the kids, both one-on-one and all of them together :)