vacation - sun and sand

On Tuesday morning, we ventured to the beach for some sun and sand. This was the redhead's first time at the ocean and no sooner had I put him down on the sand and placed our bag in the "perfect spot", and off he went (regular diaper still on).

The redhead sat himself down as the waves rolled in over him. He tried to lay on his tummy, but got pounded in the face several times by rogue waves moving toward shore.

C-man fared much better on his tummy however - he is 12 and a good swimmer. His mom said that he was probably scaring people floating on his stomach like that, but C-man was unphased. Say no to crack C-man.

Once the redhead acclimated himself to the water, he noticed the sand. The redhead was a smidge apprehensive about the whole sand thing. Um you're at the beach...its all sand.

Tinker Bell is a beach girl. She's all about some water. Here she is with the redhead and Mr. Baseball making sand piles castles.

The redhead noticed a kite or "tie" flying overhead and ran along the shore trying to catch it. He would sign please as if to ask us to get it down for him. Precious. We happened upon the woman actually flying the kite and she was kind enough to let the redhead "help" her fly it.

The redhead's first beach trip was successful, if we don't count the temper tantrum he threw for not being able to play with another little boy's truck, and the fact that he cried about it all the way home. I will give him the benefit of the doubt though, he was starving and extremely tired. We'll definitely have to go back - with food and drink.