The beach

Isn't this the best picture of Ryan? We finally had a great trip to the beach. The first three trips we tried with the kids were all busts for various reasons, mostly that Ryan wasn't into it before. I was worried that I had produced a child who was not going to be a beach lover. (Horror!) However, this time, he LOVED it. At first, he was a little scared of the big waves and kept running back to the sand every time the water touched his toes, but after 5 tries, he was hooked. In fact, after about 30 minutes of Art and I lifting the kids up so they could "jump" the waves, we got a little tired and tried to coax them into building sand castles, but they wouldn't hear of it. More More More! Again Again Again! So, I think we'll be making a bunch of trips to the beach this summer!