holiday in the sun

We spent a fantastic 7 days at the beach with Cam's family a week or so ago. The location was awesome, we were a 5 minute stroll from the sea at Waihi Beach and just 2 minutes from the shops. Everything we needed was close by, we didn't drive the car for 7 days.

Ada LOVED it. Well at first she seemed to HATE it. Huge screams and tears for the sand and the water, but we turned that around fairly promptly and she was so, so happy. She wanted to be in the water whenever we were at the beach and also loved all the play in the sand with the shells and pools and sticks.

Ada slept for 3 hours every single day. All the sea air and activity got to her as well as sightly making up for her and Olive waking at 5.30am every day. Olive was unsettled overnight while we away and after 3 nights of very little sleep we wondered if we could last the week. In the end Cam shared with Ada, hidden by a blanket in the middle of the room. They were in room that was a converted patio, it got cold at night! That likely was also contributing to Ada waking so early each day. We discovered through this that Ada talks in her sleep! Cam didn't report exactly what. Some mash up of A B C D and Mama, Daddy, Olive.

I shared with Olive, she slept with me a couple of nights while we were away anyway. We play white noise for her overnight, a track called waterfall that I found on itunes and I have it on my phone and our ipad. A few months ago she was waking every 90 minutes overnight and when I left some white noise on one night she woke once - so we love the white noise! However it is hard to sleep through though when you are not used to it. Made for some surreal sleeps and night feeds for me.

It was so lovely having the girls grandparents and Cam's brothers and sister in law on hand with the girls. We shared all the food and the dishes so it really felt like a holiday! I so appreciated having some one on one time with Ada and Cam while we were away too.