beach baby

I've been traveling for training with my new job lately. This week Kevin and Hannah joined me on a little trip to the Indiana Dunes. We'd never sat Hannah down in sand before, and what better place to find lots of sand then in some sand dunes! First I have to comment about how much more crap supplies one has to bring with them to the beach when you have a child along in comparison to what we used to bring to the beach before Hannah. It was a workout indeed just hauling our stuff from the parking lot to the water's edge.

We saw a smart mommy with a SNOW SLED. She brought a SNOW SLED to the beach to haul all of her crap supplies across the desert. She said it worked really well... that is until the kids start screaming that they want you to pull them on this sled across the sand.

While hauling Hannah across the sand, she was very excited about the swarms of seagulls on the beach. "Birdzzzz! Birdzzz! Birdzzz!" We sat Hannah down in the sand, and of course she cried. Little Miss was mad and tried to get the sand off of her hands. I picked her up and sat her on a straw mat until she calmed down. I started playing with a bucket and a shovel. She was interested in pouring sand really quickly and stopped crying, but wasn't going to sit in that stuff. Daddy decided to take her near the water and sit her down on some cool hardened sand. They sat together and watched the waves and all of the people. Eventually, she started scooting her bottom towards the water, and didn't get upset at all when a wave brought water up to her toes... then up over her bottom. She splashed a little and it was great fun. Hannah decided that the sand was fun and not so scary. Daddy brought the sand toys back out towards the wet sand, and they played and played while this mamarazzi had a grand time with her camera.


I haven't had time to play with many of the photos yet, but here's the one that I worked on tonight. Hope you all are squeezing out the last drops of summer fun!