Life's a Beach

In honour of hitting our first 30deg day since winter, we decided to take our newly expanded family to the beach. One packed picnic lunch (which Keelia ate in the car on the way) and 30 mins later we arrive at Frankston beach for some sun & fun.

Keelia decides she's not interested in the playground til she's explored the beach first. So off we go to play in the water and dig in the sand.

Keelia shrieks when she goes to pick up a funny looking shell and it wobbles in her hand! Lesson one: difference between a shell and a partially buried jellyfish. Lesson two: don't crouch down in a pool of water, it gets your undies wet! Lesson three: even though there's a cool wind at home, it doesn't mean there will be at the beach, so ALWAYS pack Keelia's togs!!

After an ice cream break and some people spotting, we finally head off to the playground where Nate surfaces from his shady cove and out into his first bright sunny beach day, much to his surprise! He's not too keen on the sun but loves watching the kids in the playground, especially his big sister who he adores. He really was not happy about wearing Keelia's old hat (I swear he knew it had flowers on it!) but he settled down after he realised it kept the sun out of his eyes.

It took Keelia 2 minutes to make friends with William and then the 2 of them proceeded to horde the slide and castle for the next 10 minutes with their constant amusement of going up and down it lots of different ways.

Finally we manage to drag Keelia away from the playground to finish the day off with a walk down the long pier. Daddy gets time to reflect on the day with his little princess while I push the now sleeping little Nate. We watch boats sail past and kids jumping off the pier under a perfect cloudless sky. Couldn't ask for much more on a Saturday really... (for photos of all the above click here)