She did have lots of fun playing on the floor with her toys:
Then we went down to the water. Let's just say Charlotte's first impressions weren't all that favorable. I put her feet down in the sand right where the water came up, and she immediately pulled them up and hung from my hands like a monkey. I carried her into the water, and she looked around like, "Um, Mommy, what are you doing?" After a few minutes though, she relaxed and started splashing in the water, which was fun until she splashed the salt water in her face--she wasn't impressed. I pulled up a handful of sand for her inspection, and she immediately tried to eat it. Go figure. After a few minutes we decided to go up the pool, and on the way, I tried putting Charlotte back down on the sand. She actually didn't seem to mind this time, until she tried to crawl and ended up with a wave in the face for her efforts.
In the pool she had a grand old time...she sat on the wall and kicked her feet, and sat on the steps and kicked her feet, and rode around with Mommy and kicked her feet...and splashed and splashed and splashed! All in all, I have to say the trip to the beach and the pool was a success. We stayed down there for about an hour, then came up and had lunch, and Charlotte and Mommy took a nice, long nap. We're looking forward to more fun in the sun tomorrow!
Preparation for the beach venture took almost as long as the trip itself, of course, and Charlotte was not at all amused with Mommy's pesky sunscreen application.
When Mommy and Charlotte and Grandma finally got down to the beach, we snagged a couple of chairs and an umbrella (right downstairs from our room so Aunt Pam could watch from the balcony!), and set Charlotte up on a towel with a bucket and shovel. She proceeded, of course, to bang these two items together gleefully, completely ignoring the sand.
Then we went down to the water. Let's just say Charlotte's first impressions weren't all that favorable. I put her feet down in the sand right where the water came up, and she immediately pulled them up and hung from my hands like a monkey. I carried her into the water, and she looked around like, "Um, Mommy, what are you doing?" After a few minutes though, she relaxed and started splashing in the water, which was fun until she splashed the salt water in her face--she wasn't impressed. I pulled up a handful of sand for her inspection, and she immediately tried to eat it. Go figure. After a few minutes we decided to go up the pool, and on the way, I tried putting Charlotte back down on the sand. She actually didn't seem to mind this time, until she tried to crawl and ended up with a wave in the face for her efforts.
In the pool she had a grand old time...she sat on the wall and kicked her feet, and sat on the steps and kicked her feet, and rode around with Mommy and kicked her feet...and splashed and splashed and splashed! All in all, I have to say the trip to the beach and the pool was a success. We stayed down there for about an hour, then came up and had lunch, and Charlotte and Mommy took a nice, long nap. We're looking forward to more fun in the sun tomorrow!
Note: I have a TON more pictures, but some of them are on my mom's camera, and this craptastic connection doesn't want to upload them, so I'll get 'em up sooner or later.
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