Beach House Pictures

Nana and Papa have moved into the "beach house" at Lake Michigan for the next few weeks, and we've already been out a couple of times to enjoy this beautiful place with them- the weather this week is SO HOT- it's a really nice place to be. :) Here are some pictures of the girls at the beach- the reason they are mostly of Nora is because Nora is the only one who does not run away when she sees the camera. :)

Walking down through the dune grasses toward the beach.

 Little toes in the sand.

 Surveying the beach the first day- not sure what to think.

 What's going on here, Mom?

 Oh! Water! :) You can see Carolyn in the background, who is not afraid of the lake this year and made a beeline for the water the instant we got down to the beach the first night. :)

 Running out of the water and back to the sand. They expend a lot of energy when we go to the beach. :)

 I especially like this picture- somehow representative of our time at the beach with all the toys scattered everywhere and both girls absorbed in playing.

 Obligatory sand-in-the-hand shot. :)

There are some perks to being only about 25 pounds at 2 and 1/2! Daddy can swing Nora all around!

She loved it!

The second night we visited the beach, Carolyn and I went swimming together. There is a big sand bar not far from the shore where the water's only about a foot deep, and it's no more than about 40 inches deep at the deepest between the shore and the sand bar, so Carolyn had fun swimming out to it and riding the waves back. 

Nora watched us with interest and great concern that we come back. :)

 The beach might be Mommy and Daddy's favorite attraction at the beach house... but hands down, the girls' favorite part is the little bedroom upstairs that has two small twin beds in it. They played upstairs the last time we were there for over an hour- playing "house." There must be something about beds in a different person's house that makes it especially exciting! :)

We're planning a "slumber party" for later in the summer because they both keep begging to go to sleep there!