Back Hurting

All afternoon, Karston said his back was hurting. We listened with an adult filter, and assumed that his back was sore from sleeping on a strange bed, as is so often the case for traveling adults. Ha! We went to Fort Zachary Taylor State Park this morning, and Karston got a sunburn on his back just above his diaper. We noticed the sunburn when changing his clothes for bed this evening, and Karston pointed to it as the area where his back hurt. Then he wanted to see the red color in the mirror so he could know what sunburn looks like.

We need to work sunscreen under the diaper's edge too, but it's such a struggle to get any sunscreen on Karston that doing it right is probably wishful thinking if we want to have any hearing left. Like an annoying parent, whenever he said his back hurt this evening, I told him that's why we wear sunscreen! Maybe that will help a little with sunscreen application next time ... nah, that implies toddler logic!

Fort Zachary Taylor State Park has some of the nicest laid-back park rangers. I assume they know they have it made! I wish FZT could keep those nice shade pines: Cale took a nap in the shade while I read a book next to him; Karston and Daddy played with another family in the surf. We learned as we were leaving that the FZT snack bar now serves beer with their lunches (wow!), and even has a water toy exchange! We didn't bring any water toys on the airplane. What a park!