Saturday, August 15, 2009

Beach week

Brooke is not really drinking that bottle, but it looks good :)

We left Monday afternoon for Holland State Park and stayed til Friday night. We had alot of fun! I did decide I am more of a pool person than the beach. It was hard because Brooke couldn't come down to the water or be outside much, so my mom would stay at the trailer with her. I also worked a couple days, so my mom and Aunt Brenda took care of the girls. THANK YOU!! Obviously, camping was a group effort :) We had one morning the girls were crabby, and me too. Breakfast was rough, but within an hour the girls were giggling so hard I had to see what they were doing. I laughed so hard I cried when I saw they had blown up water balloons and all had "perky" chests in their bathing suits :) I promised them I would NOT post the pictures. So crabbiness can turn around so fast. All in all, it was a great week full of memories and pictures. I pray Brooke will not be home bound come winter. We might go stir crazy. At least in the summer we can be outside.
No changes in Brooke. She is smiley, happy and cute! She did well camping, slept well most nights, and just hung out. It occurred to us MANY people stare at Brooke. We are ok with that, she's cute :) First people don't understand how we can have 2 babies such different sizes, second Brooke has all these tubes hanging from her. Some people ask and we are more than happy to share. I find it crazy the looks don't bother us. I didn't even notice til someone brought it to my attention. We are so happy God gave us 5 beautiful girls, I want the whole world to look :)

Sand, sand EVERYWHERE :)

Macy eating a corn dog.


I have so many more pictures, I wish I could post them all.



3 comments:

Jessica said...

Hi Koemans!
Love reading your blog! Wish I could see the perky chests myself but I'll just use my imagination :)
We get a lot of stares, too, these days and I'm getting used to it. Love your attitude ... It was a good reminder for me! :)

Kim Lubbers said...

So glad you had a great week camping! Sounds like your girls are pretty creative with water balloons:) ha ha!

Jodi said...

We had a wonderful week at the beach across from you all. I had tears reading several of your insights, especially with 1 year. Please keep in touch with Kevin and I, let me know if you ever need time- I would love to help with Brooke. Jodi Hossink Jongekryg