St. George: Part Four

Sophie doing a little hula hooping on the deck. I just wish I’d framed this shot a bit better.

On Friday night at the beach house, Sophie and Matt watched an NCIS marathon. I tried to watch with them, but I immediately fell asleep. The next morning Matt told me he said to Sophie, “Leslie was counting sheep and she got to one.”

I thought it was so cute the way Sophie and Matt were watching NCIS together . I didn’t know this before, but Sophie is a huge NCIS fan. Her favorite characters are “Abby” and “Gibbs.” (I asked her.) While Matt and Sophie were watching NCIS, Sophie made Matt toss Honey Graham Oh’s to her so she could catch them in her mouth.

“She made me throw cereal at her for about half an hour,” Matt complained the next morning.

Jake bossed us all weekend, and if we didn’t do exactly what he wanted he’d get hilariously melodramatic. He looked so cute in his pajamas, shouting, “I’m going to remember this vacation! Nobody cooperated!” He kept crossing his arms and sticking out his bottom lip.

We played lots of games in the beach house. We played Spot It and Dweebies and made Shrinky Dinks. Bunny taught Sophie some hula-hooping tricks.

 On the beach, Bunny and Sophie and Kris and Jake built “factories” in the sand.

“I’m Poogan,” Kris explained to me when I came along later, “and Jake’s name is Sharmin. This factory is a fresh start for us. Sharmin was fired from his last job for harassment.”

It was so funny hearing Jake shout, “Poogan!” Everything is so urgent with him. There was a lot of urgent business at their factory in the sand.