Beach Day

Steph's class at Cabrillo College is over, but she went back to Santa Cruz today to have lunch with some of the other instructors and see what the students in the next session of classes are working on. She also took the opportunity to go to the beach with Evan in nearby Capitola. Here he is playing in the sand:

You may notice that he has one of his towelies with him, of course (the cloth diapers that are his security blanket)... you can't go anywhere without your towelie! Luckily we have a stack of them to rotate through -- as you might imagine, they can get a bit dirty.

Here's a little bit closer shot, just because:

After spending some time playing in the sand at Capitola Beach they went up the road a bit to Davenport to look for sea glass. As I've said before Evan loves to play in the water, so shortly after they got there he decided to wander down into the surf. He didn't go in very far, obviously, but it doesn't take much wave action and shifting sand underfoot to unbalance one with such a tenuous grasp of the mechanics of walking. Before long he was sitting on his butt in the wet sand (still wearing the outfit you see above), which is why the resourceful mom brings a spare outfit or two with her to the beach. That became even more important a moment later when a big (relatively speaking) wave came in, rapidly transitioning Evan from seated to prone, and partly dry to fully submerged!

Other than the initial shock of being tumbled by a wave he handled it pretty well (he doesn't mind getting his face a bit wet in the pool or the bath), but Steph quickly bundled him off to get dry and change into some fresh clothes. We'll see if he's any more cautious the next time we go to the beach (I'm going to guess not).