After spending the morning on a conference call and doing other stuff waiting for my license to come in I decided to take off to the beach with the family. Kim, Xenia, Dakota, CK and Jack (Karen’s) and I all went. I had a good time, but I look back now and I could have spent more time with the kids. I spent most of my time out further in the bigger waves. In other words I was entertaining myself. I know that hovering is not necessary and sometimes just being there is enough. I am sure that I can engage with the kids more. I did insist on buying Dakota a swim suit. I thought it was going to be just the two of us, but she asked her mother to go along. I don’t know if that says something about me or something about Kim. We spent several hours. The reason I got involved is that I had put them in a tough spot. Kim is trying to frugal and she had found a $20 suit that Dakota likes, but it was 2 pieces. Kim did not like my insistence that it be 1 piece, but I was. So shopping we went. We finally found something Dakota liked and was one piece. It may not have been more modest than the 2 piece, but I thought it was a teaching moment. I could be totally wrong. Speaking of teaching moments. I forgot that I need to be careful with Xenia. She got burned at Trek.

Kim was telling her that she needed to wear a T-shirt at the beach. She was not liking the idea and kept complaining. No matter how many times we explained that her burn was really bad. Finally I said that she was allowed to take the T-Shirt off when she was completely under the water. Well she understood that to make that happen she would not have the T-Shirt in the water at all. I forgot she can’t always get the subtlety. Very impressive as we were driving home she apologized for giving her mom such a bad time about wearing the T-Shirt.