Today's beach adventure ended early for Elektra. She just wanted no parts of the beach. She dug in the sand for a few minutes, then wanted to sit on Daddy's lap on his beach chair. I tried taking her out to the very shallow part of the ocean, and she freaked out. She ran back up to Steve, and asked to watch Word World and Thomas. Of course she could watch neither as we didn't have our iPads with us. Then she asked to go home. Yiouch. So Steve took her home to the pool. It turns out she not only had an early lunch but she was also down for a nap by 12:30. She's having a rough day, I guess.
DJ, meanwhile, immediately started digging in the "really really big sandbox!" He had a good time digging, and he'd take his watering can to the water and fill it without asking us for us to help him. He'd just go down to the ocean, fill it, and come back. Sometimes, he'd let the ocean "chase" him back towards the beach, laughing the whole way. After a few rounds of that, he looked up looking for us, and realized he was farther away than he wanted to be. He came over to us, and then went back down to the water.
After Steve took Elektra back to the house, DJ and I walked down to the water, and then sat in it where the waves had to wash up to us. He sat in between my legs, and the waves washed over us, and DJ was putting sand on my legs, in the bucket, picking up shells... he had a grand old time. He sat there with me for over 45 minutes, and he didn't want to go home. Though then when he realized he was hungry, he said he wanted to go get some "Yunch."
Home we went, showered off the sand and salt, and had a good lunch. As a reward, DJ go to eat a Krispy Kreme for dessert. He fell asleep for his nap in under 20 minutes... he was cooked.
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