Great Weather Today

Weather tend to rotate between wet, windy and cold in the winter. Today was an exception, milder and windless. Good for a walk. First the morning (5.15am) ritual of deciding what toys to play with - a difficult task.



At about 9.30 am we took our walk. On the way we met a neighbor who had the same ideas, and boeta and the girl had an impromptu play date.

[caption id="attachment_162" align="aligncenter" width="474"] Similar in age (10 and 11 months), some baby fun.[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_163" align="aligncenter" width="474"] Watching the dog together, boeta shoeless already.[/caption]

A little later we were off again. He has had very little interaction with the beach, first too young and then weather or time issues. We do walk early morning 7 am, but not a good time to play.

Today, however, we walked determined to do one thing, get dirty or sandy.

[caption id="attachment_164" align="aligncenter" width="474"] There you go, now have fun![/caption]

I put him down and stood back! Time to have fun and explore, son!

[caption id="attachment_165" align="aligncenter" width="474"] Off he went.[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_166" align="aligncenter" width="474"] Climbing down the "mountain"[/caption]

He did some exploring on the higher level, and then decided to get lower to the water level.

[caption id="attachment_167" align="aligncenter" width="474"] Bigger rocks here to test.[/caption]

Then he saw a fish in the rock pool and decided to investigate this.

[caption id="attachment_169" align="aligncenter" width="474"] Fish in the pool.[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_170" align="aligncenter" width="474"] Slapping water is fun!![/caption]

He realized this is water, like his bath and what do we do, we slap it, fun, lots of fun! Boeta had so much fun that by the time dad decided "the kid" is getting too wet, it was not a happy chappy anymore! "We will be back son", I said, and with that I walked home, fairly briskly, to change what was a sandy, wet boy and although a little sad at the time, he slept like, well like a baby after lunch. If you wondered, I also felt good and full of plans for the rest of the day!