Seatbelts save lives/シートベルトは命を救う

Sunday Bob and Holly and Carter and Grant drove two and a half hours to hear me deliver the sermon during worship at our home congregation, then after services we went to introduce our guests to Jones Beach for the first time...
日曜日にボブとホーリーとカーターとグラントが２時間半かけてアンナ達の教会にデイブの説教を聞きに来てくれたので、その後ジョーンズ海に初めて一緒に行く事に。

The waves were still very intense due to Hurricane Danny from the day before, but that didn't stop Carter from getting right out there and battling them...whenever he would lose that battle and be taken under by one he would come back to the blanket, get a drink of water and try to convince his Dad, or myself to take him back into the water.
昨日来ていた嵐のせいでまだ波はすごい強かったんだけどカーターは全然怖がらずに波に挑戦してとても勇敢...波に飲まれる度に浜辺に水を飲みに上がってその後はまたカーターのお父さんかデイブに一緒に海に入るように頼むの繰り返し。

When Carter was taking a break from fighting the waves he got his Mother and Aunt to help collect these very strange silicon looking things that Holly plans to check out under a microscope and use as a science lesson.
波との挑戦を一休みしてる時はお母さんとアンナと浜辺で透明なプニョプニョしている生き物を集めたりしました。後で顕微鏡で見るって言ってました。

Grant also enjoyed getting into the water and he also enjoyed playing bury your feet with his Daddy.
グラントは浅い波際で遊んだり砂で足を埋めたりしてました。

Oh yeah...so you may be wondering why the title of this post...well let me tell you...Anna dropped our baby in the sand and then may or may not have run over her!!! Apparently she may still be lying in the sand if it wasn't for Carter saying, "Hey isn't that Madison in the sand." But I will back up...it all started when we forgot to buckle Madison into her Bugaboo...on the flat ground of the parking lot and walk up to the beach this is not an issue, but when Anna got that Bugaboo on the sand, put it on its front two wheels and started to roll...somehow Madison slipped out...happens to everyone right :-) I guess there are worse spots you can drop your baby, at least it was well cushioned...we still can't quite figure out how exactly she fell out and if she then got rolled over on, but we didn't see any tire marks and we really don't feel like asking her to recreate her fall anytime soon, so I guess the world will never know...amazingly Madison seemed like she couldn't care less...she cried for a second and then was seemingly fine...I was thinking to a baby it must feel like just another new experience, like when we first put her feet in the water...this experience she just hopefully won't have too often :-)
なんで題名がシートベルトは命の救うって言うのかって？本当はここで言いたくないんだけど今日杏奈はマディソンをベビーカーから落としてもしかしたらそのうえ引いてしまったかもしれないんです。砂の上だから柔らかくって良かったんだけどうっかりとシートベルトをするのを忘れたまま砂の上を歩くためにベビーカーを傾けて引っ張っていたら後ろから歩いていたカーターが“あれ、砂の上にいるのマディソンじゃない？”って...　慌ててマディソンの元に駆け寄って抱き上げたらすぐ泣き止んでくれて砂だらけだったけどどこも怪我してないみたい!　ほんとに良かったー!　でもいまだにどういう風に落ちたのか解らないけど本当にごめんねマディソン!