Every Day is a Beach Day

Today I promised the boys that I would take them to the beach, and Aidan was talking about it all morning long! We don't go often, it's a shame, I know! Some people might think that it's crazy that I don't go all the time, but I just hate all the sand. It's that real fine sugar sand that you leave the beach taking half of it with you.
We had planned to go to Bunche Beach and meet up with some moms from Mamapalooza. They were meeting at 9:30 but I was hoping to get there around 10:30 after the gym. I have never been to this beach before but I hear great things about it. It's a smaller beach and the parking is right next to the water so you don't have to walk far at all. When I got out of the gym it was much warmer than I thought it would be. The boys had gym pants on and I didn't bring their suits thinking it would be too cold to even attempt going in the water. So I went to Wal-Mart to get them swimsuits and a kite. Well I couldn't find their $1 kites that they usually have, all they had was this huge $7 one. So I sucked it up and got it. I was going to get them both swim suits but decided that that was stupid considering that they both have tons of suits at home, so why spend the money. So I drove all the way back home. Both boys had fallen asleep in the car by this time. I ran inside grabbed some stuff and we headed to the beach. We got there around 12:15. It was beautiful outside. Sunny and bright but not to humid or hot. The boys were both up from their nap so they were well rested. I packed their lunch in the morning, so we spent the day eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, digging in the dirt, collecting shells, checking out the sea life and chasing birds. It was wonderful. With all the political crap going on, it felt nice to be in nature where you can kind of escape all the stress. It makes you feel like everything is going to be just fine :)

Rylan immediately got dirty. He was throwing sand, kicking sand, smearing it on his face, smooshing it in his fingers and toes. The kid loves all things dirty. At one point when we were at the car getting cleaned up to go home, I was cleaning up Aidan while he was off on the side flinging sugar sand up in the air. He was covered from head to toe in it. It was all in his hair. I finally figured it was no use trying to clean him up and just put him in his carseat. Aidan is my quiet little intuitive man. He was digging in the sand really just checking out all the different shells. We happened to see about 5 horseshoe crabs. 3 were still alive, one was dead and the other was just the shell. The boys thought they were so cool, so did I! We watched them dig themselves into the sand and disappear. Aidan was a little skeptical about it at first and would lean over to look and then back away when the crab would start to move, while Rylan was trying to throw sand at it! My favorite part of the day was when they were chasing the birds. They had dropped a bunch of their goldfish on the ground and the birds were swarming around trying to get it. The boys were running around like maniacs giggling and laughing while trying to catch the birds. It was really a precious moment.

(P.S. My camera battery was dead so I had to use my iphone to take pictures, oh and I returned that $7 kite, that's just insane. I'll hold out for the $1 ones.)