Our Trip to CA

We went to LA to celebrate Erik's 25th Birthday (or so he claims..:). And of course we had to spend some time at the beach. Willem thoroughly loved playing in the sand, he liked the water okay but preferred it from a distance. On Erik's Birthday we went to Santa Monica with Lita, Opa, Oom Rik and Opu.

The walk from the sidewalk to the water was a good ways but even Opu thought the view of the ocean was worth the walk. (Opa seems to escape the camera, he was with us but must have been the camera man).

Willem loved seeing his Lita and Opa!


The next day we went to the beach with The Nespers! It was fun watching Willem and Josiah play next to each other. They are still at the age where they don't really interact much but they had fun sharing the beach toys and eating sand(that was more Willem than Josiah).

Oom Rik was telling Willem he was going to bury his legs and Willem showed him that he wouldn't let that happen.

A few minutes later....

And Willem was asking for more... He had a lot of fun playing with Oom Rik and the Nespers at the beach.

And of course no trip to the beach could be complete without "snack time". Lita had sent watermelon with us and the kids loved it!! Willem and Josiah couldn't get enough. Unfortunately Willem is really into feeding himself right now, so the watermelon was covered with sand. We figure he ate a few cups of sand that day but he seems to be doing well:) It was hard for me to watch but he was happy which is what matters.

At the end of the day we had one sandy, happy boy!