For Day Two uses prompt: 24. Robyn's first day at the beach with Robin, Regina, & the boys. Features grumpy teenage Henry and over excited Roland
They arrive at the cabin at noon. Robin had wanted to leave bright and early but Regina didn't want to deal with a sullen teenager all day or a cranky baby. She thought Henry's eyes were going to pop out of his head when Robin first suggested leaving at 6:30am. On most days they were lucky if he got up by noon, and he hadn't been happy this morning when his alarm went off, grumbling and groaning about how he needed more sleep.
To Regina's surprise and delight even though Victoria, who everyone called Peanut, had already taken a morning nap she also slept the entire car ride. Peanut tended to take 3-4 naps a day, though lately three was more common, so Regina should still have an opportunity to nap with her, not that she does that, often.
Roland's bouncing off the walls as they go in, leaving an unhappy Henry and Robin to unpack the van, "Can we go in the water now please, please?"
"Just give us a second sweetheart, why don't you dressed while your waiting?" Regina suggests, putting the still sleeping Peanut down onto a blanket.
"I'm already wearin it, see?" Roland says as he strips off his clothes to reveal his bathing suit. He leaves his clothes crumpled on the floor where they landed and Regina gives him a second to pick them up, but they've clearly been forgotten.
"I see that, now can you put your clothes away in your room?"
"But... I don't know where my room is."
"Well because you're the first one you get to pick," she points to her left, "That one is for your dad and I, but you see those other two doors, one is for you and one is for Henry."
"Ooh," he squeals running off, without grabbing his clothes.
"Roland" she cautions and he spins around to face her, "Are you forgetting something?"
He runs back quickly picking up his clothes and then sets off to investigate the rooms.
"Wow bunk beds," she hears come from the one room and she laughs to herself, knowing that's the room he will most likely claim.
She hears him wander about the other room before he claims the room with the bunk beds.
Robin and Henry come in with the last of the stuff as Roland returns to the living room.
"Can we go now?" he asks impatiently.
"You need sunscreen first," she tells him as he pouts over the delay. "If you bring it over here I'll do it for you."
"No," he says firmly "I want to do it."
"Okay just let me see it, and let me do your back."
She watches him as he lathers on the sunscreen pouring way too much and getting frustrated when it won't blend in.
"Mom," a quiet voice asks, "Can you help me?"
"Come here," she says with a little laugh and then starts to remedy the problem.
Robin starts unpacking the groceries and putting them away, which is helpful and she appreciates but...
"Honey," she calls out and waits until he turns around before continuing, "Someone's son is getting very impatient."
"Henry?" giggles Roland.
Henry replies cheekily, "I think she's talking about you."
"Nuh-uh" says Roland sticking out his tongue.
Robin sighs, "That's enough, now who wants to go out swimming with me?"
"Me me me me me me me," exclaims Roland and they all snicker at his enthusiasm.
Robin changes quickly and grabs everything they need. "Alright my boy, let's go."
Roland turns to her confused, "Aren't you coming?"
"Maybe later, it's a little too sunny for Peanut right now."
"Okay," he says dejectedly, "But you have to promise to swim with me later."
"I promise."
The boys come in for lunch around 2:30 and Roland tells her all about the beach, how he found some shells, dug a hole and then Henry buried him in it, so he had to go back in the water before they could come in.
Peanut's awake and Regina does want to laze around on the beach so she instructs Robin to grab the UV tent, as she puts Peanut's hat on, then scoops her into her arms.
"I still think this thing is ridiculous," Robin tells her, "Just sit in the shade it does the same thing."
"Robin we are not doing this again," she says firmly, having already tried and failed to explain to him why their daughter was too young to be out in the sun. Skin cancer and sun damage weren't exactly things that got discussed in the Enchanted Forest.
"I'm just teasing love," he says dropping a kiss on her forehead and then giving one to Peanut, "We brought the ridiculous thing, might as well use it."
They find a nice shady spot to set up the tent and a sunny spot for Regina to lie in. She basks in the sun for all of two seconds before Roland is urging her to swim with him.
"Can I warm up first?" she asks.
He sighs dramatically, "I guess."
Five minutes later she hears "Warm yet?" and knows she has denied him long enough so she turns to Robin, "You have Peanut?"
He shakes his in agreement and then Henry offers, "I'm not going in, I can watch her."
"Yay!" Roland jumps up and down as he says "I can swim with both of you."
"You sure can," says Robin "Now let's get mom all wet."
"Can Peanut swim?" asks Roland as they walk out into the water, Roland between them holding both of their hands.
"Not yet sweetie, she's too little." Regina tells him.
"But she has baths, so why can't she go in the water?"
"Remember when you helped me bathe her and you asked me why there was barely any water?" Roland nods, listening intently, "Remember I told you it's because she's too little for a bath like yours, well she's too little for the lake too, it's too much water."
"But when she's big, like me, then she can come in?"
"Yea exactly."
Roland smiles at her and then ruins the moment by splashing water in her face, which Robin finds absolutely hilarious, right up until Roland does the same to him. And then it's all out splashing war that ends with Robin scooping Regina in his arms and tossing her underwater.
"No more," she sputters as she comes up and Roland agrees, only because he wants to get thrown in the water too. And so they take turns launching Roland into the water and he does a very good job of plugging his nose so he doesn't inhale any water. She's surprised his arms don't hurt from being pulled up by the life jacket every time but if they do he doesn't say anything.
When they go in they find Henry and Peanut asleep in the shade and Regina grabs the camera, managing to get a shot of him asleep and then his face when Roland wakes him.
All in all they have a great first day at the beach. Henry reluctantly asks her for the aloe after dinner and is forced to admit that he was less than diligent with the sunscreen. She chastises Robin for not following up, who reminds her that Henry is almost an adult, and is should be capable of putting on his own sunscreen.
She frowns at the thought of Henry, her baby boy, as an adult but knows it's coming soon, he'll be sixteen in two months, and she vows to savour every moment they have left.