Summer O'Fun Day 35 (2008)

We went to the beach today. There was a lovely breeze blowing off the lake so it did not seem hot at all. There was a big group of moms nearby with all little kids (3 and under). I loved looking at the chubby legs on the kids but I so do not miss the craziness of being a parent to a toddler and watching their every move! One little girl (who was maybe just 2) decided she had too much sand in her bathing suit so she took it off and shook it out then then ran into the water. Another girl who looked about 2 and a half, went in the water and refused to come out. Her mom, who was not wearing a bathing suit, had to wade in after her. It was fun to watch. Are girls harder to handle than boys?!

The kids also wanted to walk out to the sand bar. We had to trudge along the trail through the steamy woods and watch out for prickles on the blackberry bushes (the berries are not ripe yet so no benefit to walking through them at this time of the year). Then we hiked through some mud out to this little point where the water is only about a foot deep along this huge sand bar. The kids love to go out and find flat rocks to skip. Of course after we hiked out there we saw this new sign (well, it may have been new last year as we only made it to the beach once, I think, and did not go out to the sand bar):



Oops! Well, they technically were not swimming, just wading, so I figured it was ok.