Fun At the Beach

Last Friday we took a trip to the beach at Holland State Park.  This was our first time at the beach this summer...and likely our last.  We had a great time!  Rebecca and Mary drove out after Rebecca's nap.  We played in the water for a while and then Justin joined us (came right from work).  Last summer we could hardly get Rebecca to touch the water.  This year that's all she wanted to do...play in the water.  She liked to go out as far as Mommy or Daddy could, holding her.  She's not too interested in swimming yet.  But she does like the water.  We spent most of our time in the water.  Then we built sand castles on the beach.  After getting cleaned up we had a picnic and watched the boats go by.  We took a little walk up part of the pier.  And then enjoyed ice cream cones while watching the waves.  It was a fun Friday afternoon/evening.

Earlier in the week we spent some time at the park and the library.  We had hoped to go to the zoo on Saturday, but it was too rainy.  We still had a fun day, though...we got a surprise visit from my sister, brother-in-law, niece and nephews!  It was a short visit, but Rebecca still had so much fun playing with her cousins.  It was nice to have a few minutes to visit and see how big Jonah is getting :)  If the weather is nice hopefully we can still get to the zoo this Saturday.  And Rebecca and Mary are looking forward to visiting the GR Children's Museum in a few weeks to see the Curious George exhibit with Aunt Sara, Uncle Kevin, Carson and possibly Grandpa and Grandma Holleboom.  We are also excited for Justin to get to take a trip to France in a couple weeks.  We'll miss him, but will look forward to hearing all about it.

Aside from our outings we're having plenty of fun at home building with blocks, playing with little people, painting and playing in the sandbox.  And Rebecca is making progress on potty training...trying underwear a few times :)