Teenky tinky

The title of this post refers to what you have taken to saying lately--"teenky tinky", when you actually mean "teeny tiny".  It's just too cute :)  You're trying really hard to acquire new words and phrases, and experimenting with combining them yields funny things like "Stop talking anything!".  Another thing, which we have no idea where you came up with it, is that if you don't feel like doing something, you will tell us, "I can't. I'm too flat to _____."  You were doing this a lot when you were having a moody stage the last time I wrote.  I don't want to jinx it, but you seem like you are doing better now (hoping it continues!)
Today is mommy's birthday; we're going to go celebrate during the afternoon with Chelsea and her mom.  You picked out a super card for me (with daddy); he said that you rejected many other choices before landing on this one.  It has a sticker inside that says "Very Loved Mommy"; I plan to wear it proudly today :D
The last two Sundays, we have gone to the beach in Racine, WI--it's about an hour and a half away from our house.  You were a bit uncertain about it the first time when we arrived.  I made you a sand castle, we encouraged you to play in the sand, and after about 20 minutes, you announced that you were done at the beach.  We convinced you that we should all get in the water and play, perhaps stay a while longer.  Once you got comfortable in the water, you were completely the opposite--you wanted to stay and play for sure!  We stayed about 3 hours each time.  The first time, it was nice and sunny, not too hot.  There weren't as many people as the second time because the first time, it turned out that they were having an Ironman competition in the town that day.  This caused us to have to park about 10 blocks away; normally, that would have been fine--however, daddy only brought a cheap pair of flip-flops.  On the return trip to the car, he was carrying you on shoulders as we crossed a street and one of them broke right in the middle of the street.  Mommy had on better sandals, so she had you guys wait at that corner while she ran to the car (a half mile away) and came back to get you.  The second time, uncle Kevin came along as well.  This time, despite the weather forecast indicating "partly cloudy with 0% chance precipitation", we had complete overcast sky and it sprinkled on us for about 10 minutes!  Even so, we still had a great time :)  The water was very green this time because for whatever reason, there was a ton of algae near the shore.  We still went in the water anyway, it was mainly just near the shore.  I hope we'll get to go at least one more time before summer's done.
Last thing I'll mention this time is that you are completely obsessed with your iPhone games currently.  Every day you ask for new ones (we only do free ones); your favorite seems to be the Inside Out bubble one.
Lots of love and hugs~~mommy