We brought Michaela to the beach for the first time today. We almost left within minutes of getting there.
Why, you might ask?
Well, immediately upon feeling sand on her feet, my kid asked to be picked up. I was pretty sure that was going to happen because she does NOT like to be dirty. But I figured we could overcome that by virtue of how fun it would be to swim in the ocean.
Ha.
Let's just say the first try at the ocean was NOT pretty.
Thankfully, she came around to the swimming part. We just had to give her a floaty and she was all about tooling around on her own, even drawing some admiration from a couple of guys who couldn't believe she's not even two yet!
She did not, however, come around to the sand part. She did play in it a little bit shortly before we left (scooping it into a bucket), but only as long as her toosh stayed on the blanket and we didn't make her put her feet in it.
This picture was taken pre-swimming, when all she wanted to do was play with a bucket of water. On the blanket. As far from the sand as possible.
Maybe we'll skip the hour and a half drive and just play in the pool from now on. Though, she did enjoy swimming in the "lotion," so we might have to give it another try some day.
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