Adventures in Childhood…sand & waves

This is one of our favorite family activities.  They get wet, sandy, good and tired.  We watch, laugh, drag them away, clean them off and put them easily to bed.  It’s a win-win for everyone.

It was so fun bringing my camera this time.  I found myself capturing details that I didn’t particularly love about beach days…like the sandy feet and the this-is-going-to-be-a-disaster-to-brush-later hair…because these things are part of a day at the beach.  And while I look at those things and get grumpy thinking about how I’ll have to clean it all off and brush it all out, they don’t see it that way.  They love the sand everywhere.  She loves the hair in her face.  And some day they won’t.  Some day, they will have a grown-up perspective on beach day and they will have to think about how to clean out all the sand, and she will have to get the knots out of her own hair.  But not today.