Beach Pictures! Part 2

Hah, so here are the rest of the pictures from our August beach trip finally!  Enjoy!

Starring out so longingly.  He was more ready to go in the water than we were.

So ready in fact that we had to keep a grip on him or he would have walked right out into waves above his head.

He absolutely LOVED splashing in the water.

And I absolutely LOVE this boy.

"Would you kindly stop taking my picture, Mama?"

I love that I have a ton of pictures of him looking like he was taking right off into the  water.  He would run towards the waves, arms trailing behind him, take a little jump and then fling his fist fulls of sand into the "osha".  :)

Daddy made him a little mini swimming pool that he sat in for a while to watch the waves.

Okay, played in really.

Can you see his little raised eyebrow goofy look at you?  He'll give me that look sometimes like, "Mom, are you serious?"

We found a hole.  A perfect sized hole that someone else had made and abandoned.

So of course we must investigate.

And of course try and fit inside the hole.

He was so intrigued with trying to get in the hole.

"I made it Mama!  I'm in the hole!"

But then he got stuck and couldn't get out.

I think he was worried we weren't going to pull him out.   Lucky for him, we love him just enough to retrieve him from a hole at the beach and take him home with us. ;-)

Family Picture time!

Charlie will still almost constantly talk about the "beetths" and the "osha" even though it's been a month since our trip.  He's been to the beach before, in fact once earlier this summer in May even, but this trip appears to really have left an indelible mark on his little memory.  We totally can't wait to take him back to the beach again next year!

Happy beach times everybody!

More fun beach times! Part 1

This past weekend, just our little family of 3 was able to get away for a nice little beach weekend.  After we the hubby and I had had our nice relaxing beach weekend in July, we really did want to come back with Charlie.  We knew he would have a blast (which I think was an understatement!) and we didn't want to miss the fun times with our son.  And I have to say that it was one of the best weekends ever, just the three of us at the beach.

As a side note, I think part of the reason this vacation was so relaxing (even with a toddler involved), was because William and I had already had our really truly relaxing weekend beach trip in July.  We knew that this weekend was not about us getting to relax and do exactly what we wanted to do on our time, but it was about making memories for our son - running in and out of the ocean as many times as he wanted, and trudging back and forth with pails full of water, just so he could dump them out on the sand and get a kick out of it.  I mean I think it would have been a good weekend anyway, but I think it was awesome because we weren't trying to squeeze a grown up vacation in with a family vacation.  Make sense?  I know it won't always be like that, but it sure was nice this year. :)


William's mom/grandparents have a little trailer just right across the road from the beach, which made things super easy.  (Which I hear did weather out Hurricane Irene okay, thankfully.) We didn't stay out all day due to naps, sun and actually because Charlie would get cold as well.  It's pretty funny that my little heat box son actually would start shivering and shaking if we stayed out in the water too long.  I wish I'd had a camera out that far into the ocean to document the shivers (which are rare - except on the very freezing winter night right after hopping out of the bathtub).

Enough chatter and on to some pictures!

Playing in the sand.

He loved the sand.

Really loved it.

Love. Grins.  Giggles.

No really.

Except here.  He didn't love the sand after a face plant.

He also loved his little spot in the living room.  Perfect for eating, watching TV and playing with Uncle David's Legos.

Intense Lego concentration going on here.

He was so methodical about his Lego maneuvers.

Until he got sidetracked by the movie.

"Ohhhhh!"

"Who YOU callin' crabby?"

Now he's just cheezin for the camera.

So far so good in the picture department, so I'm going to leave well enough alone and call it quits on Part 1 of the beach trip.  Be back later with Part 2 pictures. :-)