{"id":334,"date":"2011-07-06T12:44:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T16:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=334"},"modified":"2011-07-06T12:47:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T16:47:01","slug":"334","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=334","title":{"rendered":"The Tactile Ocean Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know what I love about the ocean by us at this time of the year? With intoxicatingly warm air and water temperatures, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so hands-on. While I really love visiting some of the beaches around the world that have dramatic, rocky cliffs that plunge sharply down to the shore below them, I think I would be beside myself if I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ever get in the middle of it all, if I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have the tactile experience of sand on toes and water on skin. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a big water sports kind of girl or anything, but I do want to be in the water, not just observing it. The small people feel this way, and then some.<\/p>\n<p>My daughter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s favorite thing to do is to play in the ocean with her daddy. They start off jumping waves, and then she pretends to push him in the water. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good sport about it, letting her push him under the waves time and time again.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-335\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=335\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-335\" title=\"100_1699\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/100_1699-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/100_1699-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/100_1699-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then, at some point, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll look up from whatever I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m doing and see this.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-336\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=336\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-336\" title=\"100_1669\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/100_1669-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/100_1669-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/100_1669-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My middle son loves the water. The entire time he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s out in it, he has a huge grin on his face. He also gets jazzed when a wave catches him off-guard and knocks him over. Then, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll come running out up on shore, saying, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That was so (emphasis on so) awesome (emphasis on awesome)!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-337\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=337\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-337\" title=\"100_1659\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/100_1659-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/100_1659-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/100_1659-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll stop for a few minutes and stare at the water, almost looking as if he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s posing for an inspirational photo, and then he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll run back out into the ocean again for another round.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-338\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=338\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-338\" title=\"100_1661\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/100_1661-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/100_1661-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/100_1661-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>My oldest son stays out the longest. He loves the waves, jumping over them,<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-339\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=339\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-339\" title=\"100_1718\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/100_1718-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/100_1718-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/100_1718-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ploughing through them, diving under them, looking as if he was born for this. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s magnificent to watch.<\/p>\n<p>And so we spend our time these days, half on land and half in the sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know what I love about the ocean by us at this time of the year? With intoxicatingly warm air and water temperatures, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so hands-on. 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