Technically today was a day off for Kaia, Evie Lu, and me, but Kaia's got a big lab presentation on Friday so we had a mini fourth of July celebration this morning. Kaia worked away while I went to Target to get little swimmers, a bathing suit, and sunglasses for miss Evie Lu.
Matthews Beach, looking at Lake Washington
We headed to Mathews Beach with a cooler full of goodness (including Kaia's awesome homemade potato salad) and everything you could want for a day at the beach. Evie Lu experienced sunblock for the first time and wore her own little bathing suit.
On a side note, my daughter is six months old and as I was choosing what to buy for my little girl to wear at the beach I realized there was no way I would buy a two piece suit. Is it indecent for children to wear two piece suits? Absolutely not, but I had visions of a sixteen year old Evie Lu pointing to a baby picture saying, "You let me wear a tiny two piece then, why can't I now?" And since I couldn't find the Amish bathing suit section at Target, we went with what you see below.
Made in the shades
In the two pictures below you see Evie Lu's first dip into Lake Washington. We tried it twice. Both experiences were characterized by initial hesitation then full on rejection of the experiment. You can see her little feet moving frantically in the bottom picture.
Lake Washington might be okay for my feet
Not cool dad, not cool!
We had a nice picnic lunch and then Evie Lu let us know she was finished with beach time. All in all you could not have designed a more perfect day. We'll keep acclimating Evie Lu to the water and I'm sure she'll be swimming before we know it. Let's hear it for freedom.
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