Sandy Fun

Ever since Asher started walking I've been keen to bring him to the beach again, but it's the rainy season and sunshine is hard to find. So when it appeared to be a fine day, we decided to bring Asher to East Coast Park after church & lunch. Joe came with us, and he dubbed the day "spontaneous day" because lunch at Waffletown (our latest nonstalgic haunt!) was unplanned, and the beach stop was impromptu too :)

The last time we went to East Coast, we found a nice stretch of beach near the old Big Splash. The sand was clean, the beach came up quite high such that the ground was level, and there was some shade. So that's where we headed to this time again. Asher immediately started playing with the sand when we put him down. After demonstrating how he could use his cups and funnel to make little sand castles, he tried to make them too, but failed to do the most important step - actually putting sand in the cup :O) So he ended up just swishing the cups around in the sand. Tried playing another game of uncovering his toys which were buried in the sand, and he could do that one quite easily :)

I have to teach him picnic manners though. He happily tracked sand all over the mat each time he wanted to get to the other side! Going around the mat must totally not have crossed his mind, afterall, there's technically nothing in his way! Besides getting sand all over the mat, he got sand in mind hair, on his face, in his shirt, and as I later found out, in his diaper too! :) I didn't even realise just how much sand he had got into his hair until I was showering him later at night. I had to wash his hair at least thrice, and give it a good rinse each time!

Anyway, it looks like he had fun, and it'll be great when JC can join in the sandy good time too :)


Asher with his new backpack that the doctor gave. Couldn't resist letting him carry his play cups and funnel in it :) Behind in the top right corner is the Carl's Junior star which Asher always points to and excitedly goes "dar"!




Getting down to business















He liked dredging his hands through sand that had been in the shade to feel the coolness in his fingers. He literally dredged his hands to-and-fro, to-and-fro.






Jon hijacking Asher from the sand for some play himself :)









Taking a lie down as a family












Sand all over his face! Decided to just take off his shirt since it was getting all sandy :)










Having a drink, but not quite a break, cos he was walking all over the place as he drank.









Back to play!