Our Beach Trip Part 2

Here are a few more pictures from the beach. Marianne just liked exploring and taking it all it. We had a bucket and shovel for her to play with but she used them more in the room than she did in the sand. She was happy just crawling, splashing, and observing.

Here are her first steps in the ocean.  She wasn't sure about it but after a while she didn't want to get out!

Marianne loved watching the pelicans fly overhead.

Marianne did not like crawling in the sand.  She either spider crawled or asked us to walk her around.

Marianne was much more willing to crawl in the soft, cool, wet sand.

She liked the water until...

it knocked her over! She was a bit shaken but she recovered nicely from her face plant into the shore.

Our Beach Trip Part 1 (Or: Marianne and her Daddy)

At the end of August we went to the beach for a few days. There were so many good pictures I decided to break them up and only put a few at a time. The pictures are from our first trip out to the beach. It was late afternoon when we checked into the hotel but we wanted to at least show Marianne the beach before dinner. As you can see she loved it all: the wind, the waves, the pelicans. It was a joy to watch her excitement and hopefully you can experience a bit of it through these pictures.