Canon Beach.

It’s hard to believe that Elna is almost 2 years old and had never been to the beach.  We decided to change that!  Elna was in heaven!

I took about a million pictures of her just walking because I still haven’t gotten over how cute she is when she walks—she just has so much purpose:

Do I look ready to have a baby or what?  Tired? check.  Face bloating?  check.  Squeezing out of my clothing?  check check!  Come little baby, come!

Besides the freedom of being able to walk, run, and get dirty, Elna’s favorite thing about the beach were all of the dogs.  There were tons.  She was very brave with this one:

So brave to be touching the dog—she loves dogs from afar, but rarely is brave enough to pet them

About 38 weeks prego

And some more walking:

 

In front of the tide pools—they were filled with starfish—even a sunflower star fish, which apparently is very, very rare.  Elna wasn’t very interested in them.

This is the picture we took right before she tripped and fell face-first into a puddle.

And here she is in action—just about to fall.  Sad.  It was too cold for her to get all wet.

We changed her out of her wet clothes into a fuzzy warm outfit and went to a little café for some hot chocolate.  Elna was most interested in the dog outside the window:

And then we stopped by a toy shop where Elna could have stayed all day to play with the trains:

All in all, a great day at the beach.  We need to go back more often!