Day at the Beach

Last weekend had some great weather so we decided to go to the coast for the day. Newport is only a little over an hour away. I'm longing for that nice weekend again since this whole week has been rather gloomy. Oh well! It's part of living in Oregon I guess. One of my favorite things about going to the beach is that first glimpse you get of the ocean when you're driving in the car. I get so excited to see it! I love how you see the huge ocean and nothing else beyond it.

In Newport we walked around the bay and found some sea lions lounging below the dock. They were pretty loud, fat and lazy! Caden got a kick out of watching them. He didn't really laugh or smile, but he was very intrigued by the loud blubbery animals. I don't think he knew what to think of them. Here's Caden checking out the sea lions.

After walking around the bay we drove to one of the beaches. Caden did NOT like the sand at all. I thought he would just crawl in it instead of walking because that's what he does when he's somewhere new and outside. But instead he just started crying and wouldn't move anywhere when we put him down and tried to get him to walk. Later we pulled out a big blanket and he seemed content to walk on that. He would get right up to the edge and then quickly back away.

Earlier this week I was washing the blanket we took to the beach and Caden kept wanting me to do something with it but I couldn't figure it out. Then I finally realized he wanted me to lay it out like we did at the beach. I spread it out on his bedroom floor and he hopped right on it and started spinning around in circles like he did at the beach.

Other random pictures...

Caden likes strapping on my ipod to his arm. He watches me do it when we go for a run--he's always a little copycat!

This is what happens when I leave the bathroom door open for .2 seconds. I seriously could not believe how fast he unrolled the entire roll of TP!