It's been a busy few weeks since Hadarya became 9 months old and we've done so many new things. The best was the beach. We packed ourselves up early Sunday morning and drove to Coronado and met friends before 9 AM. We schlepped a sleeping baby in a car seat miles in the sand to reach our destination, a cooler of drinks and food, a beach bag filled to the brim, and went back to the car for the chairs and umbrellas. It was so worth it!
Hadarya LOVED the beach. She had so much fun we can't wait to go back again. When she woke up she looked around and smiled the biggest smile ever. We plopped her on the ground on a towel and gave her toy. She played for a few minutes and then scooted herself to a spot where she could mush the sand. SO, off she moved to be right in the thick of things. She found the sand fun, the seaweed not so tasty, and laughed at the things her friends Davia and Aidin did. She could have cared less that there was grainy sand all over her leg and body.
We then scooped up the kids and went to the water. She was thrilled to be sitting in a big bathtub! She splashed and patted the water. She tolerated the pull of the wave on her standing feet and the sensation of the sand moving. She would have stayed all day! We even dipped her in the water to wash off the sand and that made her laugh.
We bundled her up and dried her off with a towel and she sat content on our laps. It was clearly exhausting doing all that playing and we were not surprised when she fell right asleep in the car!
